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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, these run the gamut. What's the other side of the fence? ADHD? Know the two are solid bedfellows =P!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Diagnosed as SzPD 👀

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I don't use the term anymore cause I heard it was some jam to separate the "feasibly usable" autist from the "useless" ones. I mean, I read about it a couple years back so that's a summary - but here's the article if you're interested. But like, yeah it's a spectrum and yeah there's still "tiers" but every one of us has their own strengths/weaknesses and wants/needs and it sucks to think about there being "good autistic" people and "bad." And I am catching a touch of the itis after lunch but I think that it's the same thing eugenicist proposed. If I remember correctly it was something akin to there being two types of people those of higher intelligence and will who are destined to forge society and promote growth and degenerates who are feeble-minded and cannot care for themselves so thus should be sterilized and quartered away for the greater good of man. That was one terrible run on sentence, but here's the wiki if you're interested.