Mastodawn

If you sensory issues like me who can’t moisturize themselves with lotion, may I suggest - a tanning mitt. It has significantly improved my life and skin! #neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #sensoryIssues

harriehq Mar 1

Hey fellow autistics (& Co) - general curiosity / discussion question:
Do you have a sensory (or "experiential") sensitivity that might be considered generally innocuous or at least tolerable up to a certain point, but ANYTHING above absolute zero has your hackles up? Just nope, shut it down, I cannot be around / experience that because it shuts my brain down.

Mine is whistling. Tuneless whistling is torture, but honestly even someone "good" at it, whistling a recognizable tune, has me like a cat with its fur stroked the wrong way. Instant tension and irritation flooding through my body, physically in fight mode and mentally in freeze / shutdown. It's a disruption / jamming signal on all my internal frequencies.

I think it's because I've always been able to hear higher frequencies and pitches - the vague electronic / electric squealing or whining in the office that no one else can hear but is drilling into my brain and giving me a headache. And while whistling might not be quite as piercingly high-pitched, it's approaching it AND it's a lot LOUDER than those "white noises" you feel more than hear, so somehow it's even WORSE and it really physically hurts me but I can't be the jerk who says, "hey can you knock off being cheerful and whistling a tune? it's causing me pain and mental distress" so I suffer in agitated, disregulated silence.

#Autism #autistic #adhd #audhd #sensory-issues #sensory-sensitivity #just-little-quirks #that-ruin-our-day

Tschotsch Feb 28

Has anyone here had experience automating an #IKEA KNÖCKLA for automatic opening? And more generally: how do you deal with trash bags constantly leaking? Asking for myself, since I make coffee with a French press and therefore end up with liquid residue in my trash bags.
#diy #automation #sensoryissues

Marta 🌿🍃Feb 17

Finished a #hat for my daughter. We went full circle with her: I personally hate beanies because they either ride up, or get into the eyes, and painfully press on the ears. You may call it #neurodivergentTroubles , but I'm convinced everyone just tolerates them because they don't know any better.
I discovered that German sewing patterns for hats would often have ear flaps, and also visors, and was excited. I made several German hats for my children when they were little, and one was exactly like this but in beige corduroy instead.
Two things happened: she finally outgrew it, and conformed to wanting a black beanie... that was worn for a while happily, then avoided for a year, then she admitted it had all the faults listed above, and wanted a hat 'like that one I had before, that you'd made'.
The pattern only goes to 54cm head, and she's now 55cm. And instructions suggest that for corduroy and fluffy lining, I should size up... and I never perfected grading up or down before. I guess now I have a working method :)
I went two sizes up, but the pattern is too cautious really, and one is enough. I ended up removing 2cm from the circumference by resewing the final seam with larger seam allowance.
The first version was big enough for my head, and it definitely got me thinking ;) Need to make longer ear flaps and a bigger visor for myself though.
The pattern is free Supermuzz by Lila wie Liebe: https://www.lila-wie-liebe.de/supermuezz-wintermuetze-fuer-kinder-unsere-neue/
#sewing #corduroy #sensoryIssues

nolah Feb 12

anyone else experiences sensory overwhelm specifically on their hands? it makes it so hard to do anything but especially typing on a keyboard, it's like every touch is painful

#autism #sensoryissues

Lurking Prion Feb 5

Ripping cardboard is to me what nails on a chalkboard are to others.
#sensoryissues

Jeremy Mallin Feb 2

I just tried to push up my sleaves. I'm already wearing a short sleeve shirt. 🤦

#Habit #ActuallyAutistic #SensoryIssues #IYKYK

drizzle Jan 12

So it turns out when I don't mask as much or repress my feelings I have a LOT of sensory issues I didn't know about even as a kid. Like, I hate when my hands are wet, I hate touching cold and wet things. I work at a grocery store. I have to touch frozen packages all day. I might invest in some "arthritis" gloves.

#Sensory-issues #autism #actually-autistic