Ok I think we need an adult sensory thread - Page 9

[Nature]

caspian's mama, we really should get together soon,

Signed,

Your quirky nearly neighbor

[want2bmoms]

fwiw, have you tried those tea tree toothpicks? they're pretty amazing (when i remember i have them).

I love those toothpicks! PLUS we can get them in cinnamon/teatree here!! hot and spicy and you can chew them into mulch! plus they're only about 2.95 for 100, which lasts me quite a while... only sad because when that plastic box pops open in your purse... it's like sticking your hand in a bag of straight pins - ouch.

[Hey Mama!]

Originally Posted by EviesMom

People talking to me over competing sounds (like radio and conversation with dh) I CANNOT do unless it's talking to a friend with kids playing in the background. I guess I've gotten used to that one, or something. But dh and I will have gigantic arguments and later I'll realize that I was only ever minorly annoyed by whatever I was screaming about but was really angry that he was trying to talk to me while the radio was on.

Oh my gosh, I can't stand that either! I get seriously angry if someone is trying to talk to me from another room or if there is loud noise in the background. I hate it.

I like to pluck. I keep a pair of tweezers at the computer desk and just randomly pluck my eyebrows/facial hair while I'm on the internet.

I can't stand to have my shirt or waistband touch my skin. I wear camis under my clothes 24/7 365 days a year. If for some reason I can't find one I feel naked until they come out of the dryer.

I shake my leg up and down all time. I fidget constantly. My mom says I look like a crackhead who needs a fix.

I used to hate socks and shoes, it felt like they were strangling my feet. I also had to totally be eveloped in my blanket at night. I'd lay flat on my back and tuck the blanket up over my head, under my feet, and all around my body.

I hate to be touched. I can barely tolerate my own children touching me. It's sad actually I try to stand it as long as I can but I often have to make them get off of me.

I can't stand music unless I'm in the mood for it, but when I am in the mood I'm pretty intense about it.

[HarperRose]

I also bite the husband. :

[Nature]

Originally Posted by Justthatgirl

I also bite the husband. :

Are we related?!

[starry_mama]

I mangle my pens too! I use to eat my barbies' hands and feet also. : I also sucked my thumb until I was 12 or 13, and had a blanky until I was 18, and even then, the only reason I stopped having it is because it got lost in a move. I also grind my teeth and chew my fingernails.

Today Danny's OT and I were talking about sensory stuff, and its funny how many sensory issues I have! I never labeled them "sensory issues", they were more like Emily's Rules to Live By, ya know? No socks, no polyester, no fleece, no wet hands/feet touching EVER, etc. Nature and Caspian's Mom - we should get together at the beach and overstimulate ourselves in the sand. S

[doublesnap]

Wow.....I have issues too.

One I've had for a long long time involves picking at my scalp. I do it to extremes and end up with scabs that once they start healing I pick at again and again.

I bite my nails.

I like to tweeze.

I like to bit the insides of my cheeks.

I hate sleeping with socks on in bed, there's a strict no socks in bed rule at home and DH has to comply.

I'm sure there's more but those are my biggest ones - I always thought I was odd for the scab picking/scalp thing but maybe I'm just a tad SPD

[caspian's mama]

emily, it's nice to "see" you! i'm definitely down with some summertime overstimulation, just as soon as i'm done moving.

btw, nice signature! that's the album that made me fall in love with them.

[starry_mama]

Originally Posted by caspian's mama

emily, it's nice to "see" you! i'm definitely down with some summertime overstimulation, just as soon as i'm done moving.

btw, nice signature! that's the album that made me fall in love with them.

You name the day and time, and we are there, sweet mama.

[Nature]

Originally Posted by starry_mama

You name the day and time, and we are there, sweet mama.

Don't forget me!!

[loraxc]

Oo, visual aversions! I have those too. Barnacles, bee honeycombs. UGH.

DD has been chewing her hair lately and I feel like SUCH a hypocrite asking her to stop, as I chewed mine well into my junior high years. And of course now I just chew the inside of my cheeks.

Also. DS has this new kind of paci called a Gumdrop. It is oooo so fun to bite the outer shield part. :

[HarperRose]

Ewww!!!! Barnacles!!!!

[Nature]

I used to steal my baby cousins binkies and bottles and use them at night with water. I was around 12 before I stopped. I didn't think anyone knew, but I did always get yelled at for having them in my room and of course, my family made fun of me and called me a baby.

Interestingly enough, the same exact thing happens with my children. None of them ever used a binkie or bottle, but we have had them in the house for dolls or "just in case." And I always find them in their beds, hidden in their room.

[starry_mama]

Originally Posted by Nature

Don't forget me!!

I've been wanting to meet you for a long time!

[caspian's mama]

Originally Posted by Nature

Interestingly enough, the same exact thing happens with my children.

except that you don't make fun and call them "babies". i'm having a really hard time with this lately. reading about c's issues has made me that much more aware of my own... and is bringing to light all the ways my parents and extended family shamed and mocked me for my differences as a child. dp always says my mom+dad did the best they could, that dr sears wasn't putting books out then, blah blah blah. i feel so stuck. i know i should forgive them and move on but i'm more thinking i don't even want my mom in my life. goodness knows i'll never tell her i think c has any special needs. my family has already started making fun of him for the way he talks, just like they did to me. : (we speak extremely well, just without a massachusetts accent. that makes us freaks, i guess.) my mom still gives me grief about something pretty much everytime i see me (usually about my appearance). i don't want to "take away" his grammie but i'm tired of c having to see her treat me like crap, tired of the small ways she's starting to do it to him, and certainly not willing to tolerate any further verbal abuse as he gets older and his differences may become more pronounced.

grrrggg...

sorry for the rant.

[neverdoingitagain]

Hi, I was directed here after bemoaning my weirdness
I haven't read the whole thread, but I noticed that I have alot in common with y'all here. Hoping to learn more

[neverdoingitagain]

Hey, heres another odd one. Maybe someone else went through this.
When I was a kid, I would have nightmares, so I would conjure up my nightmares as I was fallin asleep. My nightmares consisted of little things becoming huge(like boxes) and vice versa. A tiny box becoming huge then putting a tiny box into that box, would cause me to break out in a cold sweat. I was around 5-6? when it struck me that my nightmares were odd.

[acannon]

Originally Posted by caspian's mama

except that you don't make fun and call them "babies". i'm having a really hard time with this lately. reading about c's issues has made me that much more aware of my own... and is bringing to light all the ways my parents and extended family shamed and mocked me for my differences as a child.

I got this stuff, too, even after I got my AS dx. Most of what I got was You're too sensitive, You don't know how to take a joke (the "joke" was usually something mean and hurtful that my dad said to me), You're so picky, blah blah blah. My dad would call me a freak and stuff. It was horrible. Then when I got my dx, they said that I would just use it as an excuse, which I never did. I'm planning to never expose DS to that, especially to my dad, who was worse than my mom. What you do with your parents might be different, because I'm also keeping him away because they would hit me (both spanking and more than spanking) and would allow relatives to spank me, as well, and I don't want my mom to think she has the right to spank my son, but you might want to limit visits with this relative or just stop altogether if you only see it as getting worse.

[Nature]

Originally Posted by caspian's mama

except that you don't make fun and call them "babies". i'm having a really hard time with this lately. reading about c's issues has made me that much more aware of my own... and is bringing to light all the ways my parents and extended family shamed and mocked me for my differences as a child. dp always says my mom+dad did the best they could, that dr sears wasn't putting books out then, blah blah blah. i feel so stuck. i know i should forgive them and move on but i'm more thinking i don't even want my mom in my life. goodness knows i'll never tell her i think c has any special needs. my family has already started making fun of him for the way he talks, just like they did to me. : (we speak extremely well, just without a massachusetts accent. that makes us freaks, i guess.) my mom still gives me grief about something pretty much everytime i see me (usually about my appearance). i don't want to "take away" his grammie but i'm tired of c having to see her treat me like crap, tired of the small ways she's starting to do it to him, and certainly not willing to tolerate any further verbal abuse as he gets older and his differences may become more pronounced.

grrrggg...

sorry for the rant.

Yes. You're right. I don't call her names for what she does. I have a lot of anger I think I've buried away at how I was treated. In my case, my family isn't worth sticking around. I disowned most of them years ago. I refused to be around people that didn't respect me as a human being. I was tired of being belittled and put down for everything. And I know if they knew my children, they would do the same to them. So.. I stopped it before it got there.

My family lives 20 minutes away and they have never met 3 of my 4 children. And it works better this way.

I wish I had a supportive family but I don't. They were psychologically, verbally and physically abusive to me. Theres no fixing that. They don't know about my ASD diagnosis. They knew about my incorrect Borderline Personality Diagnosis. And boy oh boy... the jokes about cutting and being a bitch etc.. suddenly anything I said was "the BPD talking." :

[caspian's mama]

thanks for your kind words, mamas. it's nice to remember i'm not crazy for feeling like this; that they're the f'ed up ones. :