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Describing sensitivity

Just_me

Hi, I have been trying to describe how certain sensitivities affect me. I have found it so difficult to put it into words. All I have been able to say is that the sounds are painful but without physical pain. Clothes and some materials feel scratchy to the point of feeling complete despair, smells are so potent that I can’t breathe. But my line manager thinks I am overreacting and told me to stop being a wimp. Does anybody else find it difficult to explain these things and does anybody have any ideas of how to put this into words?

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Parents

  • The most effective way of describing sensory sensitivities for allistics is to compare them to things that commonly adversely affect them. This would be things like the squeak of a knife on a plate or chalk on a blackboard, someone loudly whistling out of tune, the smell of vomit, touching something cold and slimy like a  large slug and so on.

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  • The most effective way of describing sensory sensitivities for allistics is to compare them to things that commonly adversely affect them. This would be things like the squeak of a knife on a plate or chalk on a blackboard, someone loudly whistling out of tune, the smell of vomit, touching something cold and slimy like a  large slug and so on.

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