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.
It’s a bit hard to describe. Because I’ve learned to have much more awareness oh what is happening to me when I’m experiencing sensory issues. One the one hand, this has made me hyper aware of them sometimes, which makes me sometimes hyper focus on them, making them worse. But on the other hand, I’ve learned to actually realize what is happening and get myself away from the situation, or at least practice some coping mechanisms and to practice self compassion. A bit of a two edged sword.
I’ve heard a lot of the “adulting” aspects of managing things is basically always towing the line between blowing up and being okay. God that sounds awful. By that, I mean I heard it’s something like - if you notice you’re being triggered super hard by something figure out a way to calm down as best as you can otherwise you might lose control of yourself and you could end up pontentially harming yourself or others (and I am not saying just going around smashing stuff up but just kinda “losing control” in general). But I’m not a doctor, and I only know what I know. One really great thing my therapist said is that even planning rest can be an exhausting situation for someone who’s neurodivergent. So on a whole, it let me be kinder to myself and the things I need. Not having children helps with this about ten fold. But it’s always an uphill battle, and I feel like we get stuck with the short end of the stick a lot, and have to work harder than most just to exist.
Another thing I read, which might have been on here - was that it seems neurodivergent folks have their own social cues and are much better at picking up them between one another. And while I can’t speak for the whole of my closest loved ones - I can say one unifying factor between all of them is that they’re all “kinda different” and they all have “big hearts.” And by all this I mean, it seems when you surround yourself with people who just “get you” or just want to “be your friend” (the same as if you were 10 years old or 50) they always seem to be the easiest to be around. And I never stress about anything outside of frustrating situations they might be going through together. And if I feel like shit, I don’t have to hide it - I outright say “I feel like shit” and they just accept it. It’s pretty tits, and it’s kept me going after all these years =)!
Gl! You got this. Keep kicking ass and taking names! HYAH!