Published on 12, July, 2020
My sensory issues feel like mild hallucinations, because I sometimes smell things that other people can't smell.
I have this with sound. The game of is it auditory hallucination, tinnitus, or hearing the electricity/sound no one else can, is rarely a fun one to play.
I have had someone say to me "why is it that you can get so stressed by a sound that I cannot even hear?!". The problem is, just because other people cannot smell or hear what we can, they think we are over reacting. Tinnitus is not fun. When I lay down to sleep at night, I sometimes have a tinnitus that sounds just like the bathroom fan and have to get up to check that it is not actually turned on. Very frustrating!