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10:18am August 30, 2014
Anonymous asked: Does anyone else have days where things are louder than usual? Like some days hearing is relatively normal except for maybe certain sounds but other days everything is loud and awful and its hard to be around any kind of noise for a long period of time?

Yes.  Absolutely.  I first noticed this because I had this necklace that had piano wire and a chime inside it that made the most beautiful, delicate little tinkly noises and it was my favorite stimtoy.  But some days it made beautiful delicate little tinkly noises.  And other days it was like a loud clattering noise that was completely unbearable.

It was also one of the first times I tried to ask anyone about my sensory issues.  I asked a secretary I was helping in the office at my school.  She said “I think there’s something very wrong with you,” and that was the last time I told an adult about my sensory issues for years.

It’s not just hearing that can do this.  My sense of touch varies from tolerable to even air touching me burns my skin.  And my vision (my most sensitive sense of all, and the worst in terms of sensory issues) at its absolute best is teetering on the edge of falling apart, but on other days it’s either fragmented or so pixellated that I’m functionally blind.

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