Sensory stuff

Those are interesting. Thank you. Truth is, I wasn't a very good goalkeeper - I definitely had a problem with depth perception and failing to judge the flight or bounce of balls got me into trouble...

There are some other examples here, too:

NAS - Sensory differences

I used to have a pocket watch in the 90s! But I broke it when celebrating a goal at football. Another problem I have is getting 'over-enthusiastic' at matches. And I too cannot help reaching out for things that I walk past. Only the other day I decided to go for a walk at a place I didn't know too well. The footpath ran out and I found myself rather stupidly walking along the grass verge of a main road. In those situations I have to reach out for bits of foliage and grab them. I like the feel of snapping the twigs off hedgerows.

Temperature - my default setting is being too cold and I tend to layer up but I don't realise until I'm far too hot that I've got warm. There is a very small window in the summer that I feel the right temperature and then it gets too hot. 

Taste - really sensitive to taste and texture. I have a very bland diet with an unfortunate preference to unhealthy foods - sugar, fatty, fried. I hate the concept of wet food and don't like any kind of sauce. Not keen on food touching but I think I have improved with this.

Touch - hate being touched (there is a small minority of people I'm ok with it from). Don't like certain materials of clothes but really like others. Prefer loose clothing and like to wear my hood up. Hate any kind of jewellery or similar - can't stand anything on wrists or fingers etc and don't like the cold feeling. For some reason I have a tendency to touch things as I walk past them like the leaves of hedges - I'll just run my hand along it as I walk.

Sound - hate ridiculously loud sounds and I hate the vibrations that come with really loud music. Don't like really sudden noise. But my most hated is squeaky noises - they make me want to run. I also find repetitive background noises annoying like clocks ticking or workmen outside etc.

Smells - I seem to be really hit and miss with this. There are certain smells I'm very sensitive to and hate like certain perfumes, vinegar and coffee. But then there's others that I don't notice at all. I sometimes also dislike the smell of a room when I first walk into it but will be ok with it after a little while.

I cannot wear rings or wristwatches, far too irritating. I started wearing pocket watches in 1997, a big improvement on sticking a wristwatch in my pocket most of the time. Sudden loud noises freak me out, especially dogs barking, I jump involuntarily every bloody time. I have to cut out or unpick the stitches of all clothes labels. Blancmange-like, fatty and gristly food textures make me gag. Tobacco smoke and some perfumes make me feel like I am being assaulted. Touching most synthetic textiles is quite horrible, but nylon is the worst. If I touch nylon the visceral reaction is so strong I feel physically ill for many minutes. 

I know LED's are supposed to be better, but lots of people find them to bright, when buying light bulbs I always get the ones that say they have a soft colour or my eyeballs feel like they're being bleached.

I find over head lights really oppressive anyway and always use table lamps except in the kitchen.

So it's not just me then

Maintenance turned up in my office the other week and fitted some new LED lights. Trouble is, they are far too bright and I need to go somewhere else to work if I need to concentrate.

Voices on the phone are also an issue. Sometimes it almost seems like the caller is living inside my ear!

Watches go weird on me, bracelets really annoy me, but I do like earings and necklaces.

Smells definately they're a real challenge, I hate the smell and taste of BBQ's they make me feel feel really sick, and those horrible dangly scented things that hang up in the car and Febreeze, that makes my lungs go weird and almost want to vomit and a lot of those other scented laundry products. Washing up liquids too, when you can smell and taste it from a plate or cup. I'm a coffee sniffer too.

Over the hedge are some children and they're always outside playing, mostly I think it's great that spend so much time outside engaged in imaginative play, but one of them shrieks and it practically sends me into a low earth orbit. I find noise in general quite overwhelming, like why do people's phones in their cars sound so loud, I must be able to hear their conversations better than they can! And thier music too, I hate it on ublic transport or something when all you can hear is biddly biddly coming out of someones head phones. Some people have a tone of voice that sets my teeth on edge, there was a woman at uni who used to squeek like a mouse and I realised that my teeth chattered like a cats when they spot prey everytime she did it.

On the whole people freak me out, they don't look where they're going, they make loud noises and have storm force auras, random men can freak me out too, the ones who think it's OK to shout at you in the street, to comment on your face or clothing or percieved sexual orrientation, or the ones, little old men usually who insist on calling me Sir, even though I'm obviously female. Those sort of thing's really get my fight/flight response going and feed into my PTSD, it can take me a while to calm down and rid myself of flashbacks and catastrophising, let alone the idea that I might totally misread a situation and thump someone, or they may innocently come up behind me and talk to me.

I love curries and spicy food too, but not Chinese or any south east Asian stuff really, I don't mind a Thai curry, but most of the rest of it just gives me the ick. I'm veggie too and have been for a long time, meat and animal proteins just don't agree with me and I don't like the taste and fish is just disgusting, I see raw king prawns and people drooling over them and I just think eughh, giants bogies!

The other one that really does me in is lights, I was in an opticians yesterday helping a friend choose some new glasses and there were so many lights in there and screens and I could see them all flickering at different frequencies, it was horrible I had to spend most of the time looking at the floor or I would of got a migraine. I suffer a lot in bright sunlight too and can never get any decent sunglasses, they're never dark enough, my eyelashes brush the wrap around ones when I blink and the light gets in round the sides.

Sounds is a big issue for me, when I hear my neighbours tv or talking on the phone I get frustrated heartracing, sweaty agitated, also the same with people banging doors etc

ive never liked being touched especially by strangers it freaks me out, I remember going to Thorpe park with an ex partner for the opening of swarm, and the staff were dressed up and creeping up on people, tapping them on the shoulder and I hated it, the ex thought it was funny that I was getting high rate

smell of chlorine used to get my anxious (not smelt it in years so not sure it does now) but because I can’t swim the smell used to get me distressed

dont like social situations of maybe 2 or more people as I feel uncomfortable