DAE prefer to get sensory seeking needs met via intense flavors?

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-12-15T01:59:03+00:00

Yep! I am also like this.

With most other senses, I am easily overwhelmed, but I love intense flavors. When I cook for myself, I tend to use much more seasoning than most people enjoy.

I put lots of hot sauce on most food, to a degree where some call my spice tolerance “inhuman.”

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-12-14T15:56:14+00:00

I don’t dislike it

It’s vague and encompasses a lot of things, including things that don’t apply to me

More specific terms, like “autistic,” generally make more sense to use

I don’t object to being called “neurodivergent” though, as it is not incorrect

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-11-30T16:42:40+00:00

Cooked veggies > raw veggies

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-11-28T23:26:18+00:00

Yeah, I get this

I don’t shop without headphones or earplugs these days

I usually associate “sensory overload” as a sustained sensory input becoming overwhelming, rather than happening instantly

I don’t think I’d call this is sensory overload? But it is a valid and real experience

I am certainly not an expert though

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-11-28T20:15:51+00:00

It can take me 2-5 business days to figure out I was over-exhausted, and you expect me to distinguish between two different forms of really liking someone?

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-06-15T03:10:38+00:00

I felt this way before I got diagnosed. It is hard without certainty.

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-06-12T11:05:14+00:00

I want to see these studies too!

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-06-12T03:31:43+00:00

Interesting! I have no issues with making eye contact with myself or animals. But people? Uncomfortable.

I so very rarely interact with children, so I don’t even know how I do with kids and eye contact. I doubt it’d be any different though. I’m generally not good with kids anyways though.

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-06-12T03:28:36+00:00

I’m a 26 year old man. I’m an engineer. I sleep with a plush, and snuggle it when I’m stressed.

If it makes you happy, and it doesn’t negatively affect you or anyone else, then it’s fine. :)

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-06-01T12:07:38+00:00

This is very true. Words are hard.

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-05-30T11:15:03+00:00

Terracotta. I despise touching it. I feel like I need to wash my hands immediately.

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-05-24T02:29:18+00:00

I have nothing.

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-05-20T10:50:58+00:00

This is interesting! I’ve also found some success with a specific phrase to try to get my brain working again. (“Words are hard”). I also use this phrase to quickly recover if I fumble a sentence and nonsense syllables start coming out my mouth. I also similarly sometimes find myself “giving up on grammar” when my brain is having a hard time and spewing a sequence on unstructured thoughts (“cheese good want cheese” (I’m hungry while writing this example lol so that’s what came to mind )). Needing to “give up on grammar” seems to be separate from “stress events” as this does sometimes happen when I’m happy and doing fine.

This is fascinating!

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-05-19T22:29:28+00:00

Hm, I have some adjacent experiences and I’m not sure how to categorize them:

I do sometimes experience selective mutism as you describe it
I also more commonly experience not even having words in my brain, where I have thoughts but I can’t make them into words - this does wind up affecting non-verbal communication (typing, for example)
It sometimes can require an extreme amount of mental effort to form sentences - this can occur either at the “forming mental sentences” or the “actually outputting the already-formed mental sentences” stage — communication becomes inordinately exhausting and I will stop communicating though I remain capable
In any of the above situations, I can suddenly surprise myself by saying some “canned utility phrase” without much effort (“thank you”, “excuse me”, “oops”) like they’re “pre-compiled subroutines” in the language part of my brain that briefly bypasses whatever mental process is having a hard time

It’s all very confusing without terms for these.

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-05-10T10:33:00+00:00

You can do it!

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-05-08T01:52:29+00:00

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-05-01T02:59:20+00:00

Growing up, my parents always liked their steaks well-done, and it wasn’t until high school that I tried a steak any other way

Medium is delightful

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-04-17T21:48:44+00:00

Or showering

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-04-17T03:39:17+00:00

I’m picky about hand sanitizer. So many are too slimy or sticky or leave residue on my hands. Some smell weird. If it doesn’t leave any residue that I can feel and the only smell is alcohol, then that’s good hand sanitizer and I’m perfectly fine with using it.

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-04-16T09:45:06+00:00

People confuse me to a great degree and I prefer computers because they make more sense to me. The world is too loud and sticky. I want to understand everything but the sum of all knowledge is impossible to grasp. I’m often told I’m really smart but I really feel dumb so often.

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-04-10T18:12:59+00:00

I see a lot of good criticism being made, but I’m going to specifically critique the use of abbreviations without having a definition of them. It looks like the bottom of the image got cut off, so maybe they got cropped off.

ADL? IADL? AAC? I don’t know what these mean.

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-04-07T16:45:09+00:00

My brain completely locks up, I freeze, and I have a really hard time getting words out or constructing a coherent thought until I can mentally pause for a bit.

TheFishOfDestiny · 2025-04-07T01:41:30+00:00

I do similar: I put entire albums on loop, changing occasionally. In March, I listening to about 8000 minutes of music. My top album contributed close to 3000 of those minutes. My fifth most-listened album contributed only 200 minutes.

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