Sensory stuff

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.

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!

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!

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.