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Have your sensory issues gotten better, worse, or stayed the same as you age? (piefed.social)
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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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[–] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Better, like when I was really young, I used to have major problems with getting goopy stuff on my skin, think paint and glue and the like which would normally be really fun for a super young kid to get into, like, fingerpainting and paper mache are a typically a young kid's favorite art projects for a reason, that being basically getting to play in goop, but getting that stuff on my skin was my big sensory issue growing up, although I learned to successfully manage that in high school and it hasn't been a problem for me since then.

Last time I thought, stuff like that was super common among the autistic crowd too, that or hypersensitivity to cold or hot stuff or whatever.