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When Your Special Abilities Create Daily Challenges

I have perfect pitch and can hear every tiny sound which everyone thinks is cool but it makes open offices and coffee shops torture for me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Exceptional sensory abilities can become sources of overstimulation and distress rather than purely beneficial traits, complicating how individuals understand their differences.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Neurodiversity & Learning Differences?”

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