What is your biggest sensory issue?

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For me, it's sound. I struggle so much with noise, particularly unwanted music. I struggle in supermarkets and cafes.

In the house, it's usually quiet. We don't have a TV and we wear headphones if we're watching something on our devices so we don't disturb each other. My home is very peaceful.

I also struggle with feeling too hot and with my clothing feeling uncomfortable. Sometimes, I let myself get too cold because I can't face putting more clothing on then getting too hot. It's a constant struggle.

What do you all struggle with?

Light touch and mouth noises shudder.

Big spoons
Being too hot also
High voice tones
Soft textures.

I also don’t like big spaces or rooms. Or open doors. I like the feeling of being boxed in safe.

Clothes labels.

Being touched wrong.

Bright lights - fluorescent ones are the worst.

I have to have noise on I can’t stand silence. I have music on headphones all the time.

Hair touching my face, I can't stand it and have it tied back all the time.

Touching woolly or weird fabric, having the big light on which dp insists on ... Different kinds of noise at the same time, I can't think straight or understand anything!
Eating certain things with the wrong utensils...
Hair products, I tried curly girl then realised I can only have my hair naked! I've also cut it now, I always hated long hair and I didn't know why, turns out I can't stand being touched by it on my neck or whatever. I'm sure there's more !

I also find kissing revolting lately, like I get twitchy about touching slobbery lips / tongues. That's a new one.

Hair near my face.

Noise - I'm another one with a quiet house.

Wet laundry. Ugh ugh ugh ugh.

Squeaky textures like rubber gloves, I can't wear them even if I'm bleaching the countertops.

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I also find kissing revolting lately, like I get twitchy about touching slobbery lips / tongues. That's a new one.

Also this, I've always had an aversion to it.

Sound for me too. Instantly triggering at times.
I use headphones or leave the room if I can.

So much, my senses are extremely heightened to the point where I'd like to dial them down at will sometimes.

Sound. I've had misophonia all my life. I struggle with so many sounds that can cause anything from rage to nausea in me at any time. Things like scraping cutlery, noisy eating, etc. will annoy anyone but with me they make me tighten up and affect me at a visceral and almost primal "fight or flight" level.

I'm not a mother and won't be as I'm on edge and hypervigilant around babies, toddlers and small children anticipating crying or screaming. Same with dogs - the unpredictability. (I also have CPTSD as well as ADHD and autism)

I have a real issue with muffled bass noises coming from car stereos and autotuned music. Again, more than just annoyance. They can trigger nausea and panic attacks in me.

I love my noise cancelling headphones, and I'm practically a hermit.

I can't cope with anything woollen or scratchy materials, particularly near my neck. Shudder.

I can't cope with auto tuned music. I walked out of Tesco once and haven't been back because they were playing some kind of rubbish - all that type of music sounds like a robot singing. It drives me literally mad and my nervous system goes crazy. I feel like I need to start screaming.

Noise - overlapping noises especially. Loud noises. Sniffing and swallowing the sniff (boak)

Hot feet - puts me in a terrible grump and means I spend 99% of the year in footwear which is not weather appropriate

I just wear my AirPods on Tesco’s. And dark glasses.

I suppose I look odd

Other people eating. Especially DH.
People scratching fabric (i.e.. scratching leg on top of jeans 😱)
Agree with the auto tuned voices.
Mess so visual clutter.

I do like background noise I don't like silence. Love a good fan constantly on making that hum.

Mine is mild but I never understood why I loathed mealtimes as a child. My brother's jaw clicks when he eats. I cannot stand it. Fills me with rage.

Also, DH has a mug with rough glaze. Neither DD or I can touch it. DH thinks we are making it up.

Mine are noise, too much, too loud.
People- too many or too close.
I don’t like gloomy rooms and cant feel comfortable until I either leave or turn on some lights.
Bothered if I’m too cold or too hot.
Feel claustrophobic in small, busy untidy and cluttered rooms.
Can’t concentrate if I start feeling hungry.
If feels like angry annoying wasps buzzing around me, and I can’t relax until I either leave or the stimulus stops.

Air against skin, I need my arms and legs covered at all times

Sound. I've had misophonia all my life. I struggle with so many sounds that can cause anything from rage to nausea in me at any time

Ah yes misophonia! Nail / skin biting sends me either into a rage or I cry ... Alone mostly but still. I feel sick thinking about it

Noise. I can’t deal with unexpected noises like phones, doorbells, sirens.

So I live in the middle of nowhere, have my phone on silent and no doorbell.

I’m also really strict (?) about teaspoons and they have to be perfectly heavy and balanced.

Overlapping noises. Especially two people speaking at equal volume in the same room.

In my early 20's I completely lost my shit at an art exhibition where they played overlapping audio and projected videos onto the walls of a large dark room. Complete breakdown, crying, shouting, mess. That was probably the first time I remember thinking "I am not having a 'normal' response to this".

Noises- some of the US youtubers who screech and squeal set me off so much my kids can't watch them during breakfast- once I've woken up properly I can tolerate the noises better! And my kids squealing and screaming. Loud isn't an issue, its just the high pitched tone that sets me off.

And then clothes. I don't like flappy clothes, everything needs to be tight but not digging in- waistbands tend to be too tight, but if something is too loose I can't concentrate at all, and get really agitated. I mostly live in dresses and leggings with strappy tops underneath!

Yes to US YouTubers! It's actually painful listening to their screeches and laughing like they are chimpanzees. I get so stressed and angry and have to get them to turn it off.

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Sound. I've had misophonia all my life. I struggle with so many sounds that can cause anything from rage to nausea in me at any time

Ah yes misophonia! Nail / skin biting sends me either into a rage or I cry ... Alone mostly but still. I feel sick thinking about it

God the eating. I can’t sit with DH if he’s eating alone. There’s nothing wrong with the way he eats but I’m so in tune to his every effing breath that it’s like he’s on stage at the Albert hall with a percussion band every time he eats a slice of bread!

Mostly noise. It varies hugely with my mood and whether I’m ok physically too (I have fibromyalgia among other things) - if I’m in pain already sound just hurts me. I remember getting back from an exhausting day at work (I used to work in a library which was great but too much full time) and literally asking DH to stop talking to me because it HURT.

Light touch gets to me too sometimes, other than, erm, in the bedroom. But things like a light stroke on the arm if I’m stressed out feels really painful.

I guess clothes are a big sensory issue too, I’m pretty fussy with what I wear

High pitched & repetitive sounds can drive me to tears in minutes. I literally can’t form thoughts whilst they take over my brain.

When I am stressed or tired or overwhelmed, all bright lights, sounds and touch are too much and make me feel nauseous.