Readers will be amazed to see that noise cancelling headphones are as quintessential an accommodation as eyeglasses, wheelchairs, or asthma inhalers.
If you have a compulsive need to bite your nails or pick your skin, don’t be ashamed. It’s a normal behavior that you can redirect to healthier ways to stay regulated.
For those who don’t much about it, I’d like to explain to you sensory hypersensitivity, sensory overwhelm, and meltdowns from a first-person perspective. Our sensory
At some point, this will end. Nothing lasts forever. It will stop. It will. Yesterday, I sat through an hour and a half of torture.
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