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Have your sensory issues gotten better, worse, or stayed the same as you age? (piefed.social)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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To those of you with sensory issues (I believe this is pretty common, right?) have you noticed them changing as you grow older? Have they gotten easier to handle, harder, or stayed the same? In fact, if you feel like "going there" and sharing - please feel free to even express what they feel like.

No need to share what they are, if you don't feel like it. Share what you'd like.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The actual experience of them? About the same. How much that impacts my life? Less than before.

Because I have greater vocabulary for describing what's wrong and have greater agency in my life to decide not to experience it I can avoid it better. I've also found that drowning some textures with others works;

Ex: melted cheese outside of the context of pizza or as a sauce is not good to me. However adding several other textures helps a lot. So getting a cheese burger when I ordered hambuger is only really a dealbreaker if it was meant to be bun, catchup, & burger. But if I get other ingredients light cheese isn't unacceptable.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Ah, yeah I get this one. Like a lot of people would shrug that off, and think you get "bonus" stuff. But it's something you can't just soldier through, because it ruins the whole experience and then some. While that's not my deal I did think about how icky it would be and it made me sad. I am glad you advocate for yourself =)