Sensory Sensitive Adult

Are your words often misunderstood? Mine are. One trick I learned is to have people repeat what they think I said and to have me repeat what I think they said and then the other has a chance to clarify before a response is given. This helps to keep misunderstandings at a minimum and catch them early. 🌻

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Do you have activities that can be fun sometimes and overload you others? Bowie 😻 has two favorite toys, the floppy fish, and the catnip kicker. We have to be carful to watch him when he plays because either one can quickly turn from happy and fun to overstimulated and scared. He will try and get out the excess energy by shaking his back, his leg, his tail, his pupils will get extra large so he can take in as much information about his surroundings, if that doesn’t make him feel safe then he’ll go into full fight, flight, or freeze. On a rare occasion he’ll do all three. He’ll get low and stop moving, hide under a chair, bite and claw at the air, and then run away to the bedroom where he’ll usually want to cool off alone nestled in a pile of blankets or sprawled out on the cold wood floor. This cat is so much like me it is scary. 🌻

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I am positive. I am loving. I am enough. 🌻

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Short sleeve season is back! My skin is super sensitive so I need it to be quite warm and sunny to be in short sleeves and let the wind run along my bare skin. I know how important my vitamin d intake is so I do my best to show the skin when the sun comes out so I can absorb the maximum.

Meet Bowie. 💝 The handsomest, sweetest, smartest, most loving boy I’ve ever met. He can’t get enough cuddles and purrs at least 50% of his day. He had a bit of a rough go in the last month, but now he’s learning this is his new home and I’d say based on his purring and lovings he’s a very happy boy indeed. 🌻

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I have a difficult time consuming news. I find myself debilitated by empathy for those they show suffering.

Sometimes it’s important to know what’s going on so I have to watch even though it’s tough.

My therapist suggested I try watching it at a faster speed to counter some of the parts they draw out to bring the empathy out of those who struggle to find it.

Speeding it up actually does help some and also doesn’t allow my brain to dwell because we’re moving on to the next story before it has a chance. 🌻

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My dad grows this beautiful hibiscus plant. 🌺 It mostly looks like a tree with deep green leaves and thick wood stems. That is unless you happen to visit on a day when she decides to send a flower into bloom. Yes, her flowers are only this big bright and open, ready to spread her seed, for ONE day, and then it wilts back down to her limbs. Just imagine the amount of energy it must take for her to put it all out there and hope this is the time a special bee will come along and take some of her sweet pollen. We are taught to appreciate the beauty of flowers, but that’s the easy part, the flower is meant to be beautiful. What if we started teaching about the beautiful plants that just happen to also make flowers sometimes? It’s more in line with how us humans perform anyway. I am a beautiful person, but most days I am working hard just to get food, water, and sunshine. It is only the rare days when I have enough energy stored away and the weather is just right that I appear to bloom and shine, but just like the hibiscus it is short lived and I always wilt back into my home afterwards for a long rest. Just because my bloom is down doesn’t mean I’m no longer beautiful. My deep green leaves are lovely and delicate and most importantly sustaining. After all you have to make sure you’ve got a solid base before you could ever manage the energy to bloom. What is your solid green base? Mine is water, vegetables, positive self talk, sunshine, and sleep. 🌻

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Do you have an end of week routine to wrap up one and set up the next? 🗓 I like to make sure the dishes are caught up and the house gets picked up so it feels fresh and breezy. 🌻

Can you remember who you were before the world told you who to be? 🌻

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Please don’t hurt me. 😭 I’m already broken and I don’t think I’ll be able to put the pieces back together if you keep breaking them into smaller bits. 💛