#sensory things

[artisticautisticstuff]

✨️Glitter fidget toys✨️

I love the glitter wands they look really cool to look at

[erraticprocrastinator]

This is a gentle reminder for all my fellow neurodivergents (and honestly everyone) that “that show is too stimulating” isn’t just something that applies to kids. It’s absolutely a thing for adults as well. Your brain is just as susceptible to overstimulation from overwhelming visual, mental and auditory input as the toddler who just had their Coco Melon taken away, and it doesn’t matter if it’s your special interest or your comfort show. I love Hazbin Hotel more than I probably should, but if I’m having a high-anxiety day or am already on the brink of a sensory meltdown, the chaotic, musically driven show illustrated almost entirely in shades of red or bright neons with a plot that goes a mile a minute definitely isn’t the best choice for my wellbeing, even if it’s all I want to turn to. If I need something mindless to throw on while I decompress, I usually turn to YouTube documentaries about whales or my other special interests at the time. If I need something with an engaging plot but not so sensorily stimulating, I put on The Golden Girls. Learning our own cues for distress and developing strategies/routines to deal with it is so incredibly important. The world is stacked against us enough without us accidentally making things harder for ourselves. I’m not saying that anyone needs to give up their favourite anime or that you should stop using the colour-fest action series to wind down if it genuinely works for you, but if you find that you’re starting to burn out of your favourite shows faster than usual, or that you’ve started having those no-good, averse feelings when you think about watching, it might be worth sitting down and really thinking about the sort of state you’re usually in when you reach for them. Any brain is bound to develop negative associations towards something it’s consistently exposed to when it’s overwhelmed or on the verge of fight-or-flight mode. Protect your joy and your wellbeing by checking in with where you’re really at before hitting “Play.”

[turtleduck-in-mordor]

*skipping through the rain* i don’t get why people don’t enjoy this, it’s so nice and peacef— *lands in puddle* *Wet Socks have entered the chat*

oh

[sensory-hell-offical]

*skin picking*

OW IT HURTS

Stop? No.

OW IT HURTS

Skin is fidget toy. Destroy fidget toy.

OW IT HURTS.

Hehe very fun.

OW IT HURTS

[netscapenavigator-official]

Having to shake someone’s hand feels like that scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark where they used a melting wax recreation of the villains to show them dying in a horrific, gorey, bloody death.

Like, I just don’t want people touching my hands. I don’t like it. It feels too intimate. I feel violated after a handshake. I don’t want my hands touching a stranger at all, and I especially don’t want a stranger’s hands touching mine. My hands feel like a private sanctuary, and being forced into a handshake feels like having that space invaded. It just makes me feel icky.

[ifiwereafish]

"sensory deprivation is torture" bbg you have never seen me after a meltdown, all the lights in my house are turned off and i am on my rocking chair quietly stimming, with no noise, no lights, NOTHING around me

[enby-xb-nomad]

I'm currently on a mission to identify the biggest sensory things that generally interfere with my ability to be comfortable in life, so I can start figuring out solutions to them.

The first and biggest one was noise sensitivity. I bought earplugs. This probably still needs tweaking (there may be a different kind of earplugs that would meet my needs better) but having access to ANY noise relief at all is a revelation.

The second biggest one, seeing as it's summer and I live in a very hot humid overcrowded city, has been finding some relief from how sweaty I get. I'm a rather sweaty person by default and a VERY sweaty person in this city in the summer and walking around feeing like I'm marinating in my own perspiration for three months is absolute sensory torture for me, which is the main reason why I go outside as little as possible in the summer.

So I did a little searching online and bought several inexpensive moisture-wicking t-shirts and polos from a company that seemed to get pretty good reviews and. Wow. WOW.

This solution also probably needs tweaking, but I just got off the train to work and I feel, at most, mildly damp. Instead of feeling like I just crawled out of a swamp. Incredible.

[talleslittlelion]

~ Biting things + twisting hair ~

The sensory toy was a gift from Teruki, and Ekubo always tries to remind him to use it when necessary!