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How to validate your sensory reality when others minimize it

I can feel every texture and sound around me constantly but people say I am oversensitive and need to toughen up and I don't know how to explain that I cannot turn it off.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The intensity of neurological experience is dismissed by those whose nervous systems filter information differently.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Autism spectrum — lived experience?”

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