Hypersensitivity Archives - A blog about life on the spectrum

It Was Never Enough to Do My Best

Kai — Wed, 11 May 2022 08:01:00 +0000

You know, people always say something like “Just do your best, you can’t do more than that.” Did anyone ever say that to you? Did they tell you that and then no matter how much you struggled to do whatever was asked of you, it was never enough? If you never experienced that I would say you are a lucky …

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Papers

Kai — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 17:30:00 +0000

For a while now I’ve been really tired. I don’t know how else to explain it. I am just so very tired. I feel like my throat is dried and my voice is hoarse, I feel like my body is heavier than it should be and my fingers move more slowly than ever before while writing these words. I am …

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Routines and Why I Need It

Kai — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 08:01:30 +0000

As I’ve talked about before it’s all the little things that really affect me. It’s the things that most of you out there probably barely notice. But, I notice. In fact, I can’t avoid it. I’ve meet others on the spectrum like me and they all react to different things. We all have our own unique past, a set of …

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What to Do When We Feel Useless

Kai — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 09:00:40 +0000

We all feel like this sometimes, don’t we? Useless. Like whatever we try to do only makes things worse. All we do is mess things up. I feel like that a lot. Well, I guess it’s more like I used to feel like that a lot. It’s not so bad nowadays. I mess up a lot. I always have. I …

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Life as a Mimic

Kai — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 09:01:32 +0000

So, over the last couple of weeks I talked a lot about some of my experience with hypersensitivity. I think I could talk about it forever, because this is one of the fundamental differences between me and everyone else. Me, a woman with Asperger’s, and everyone else – literally everyone else. Even other people on the spectrum might experience things …

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Taste

Kai — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 10:11:12 +0000

Finally, it’s the last of the senses. What’s funny about this one, Taste, is that it’s one of those things that other people seem to really care about and be bothered by, whereas I couldn’t care less. In a way, at least. There’s a lot of different aspects to this, as you may have noticed with the other senses as …

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Touch

Kai — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:11:59 +0000

Have you ever had one of those clothing labels that just feel itchy and irritating? So much so that you have to remove it? Now imagine they all felt like that. Imagine you could feel the touch of a single hair landing on your arm like it was a big spider crawling across your skin. If you can imagine that, …

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