I have an interesting habit that I was wondering if anyone else shared? I've had really bad sensory issues all week. I completely shut down yesterday and don't really remember much of what happened during my evening. I woke up on my balcony this morning (very early in the morning) and came inside only to find myself on the couch this morning at 6am when I finally got up to start my day.

I'm going to assume I went outside because it was so unbearably hot in my apartment. I've done strange things like this before and have only vague ideas/memories of how it happened.

Today I'm feeling much less overwhelmed and am able to focus and do more than one thing at a time. I purposefully didn't wash or brush my hair during my shower and am not wearing any make up (all these things are really difficult for me to deal with so on weekends I give myself a break if I can). Plus I'm wearing all my loose, comfy clothes all for the specific reason of not "flipping out" at any point today.

Now to the really strange thing... The day after any day that I've had really bad sensory overload I feel a real need to rearrange my office furniture... I'm talking the whole office and everything in it. I also find myself really wanting to clean things. Could this be because I feel like I need to keep busy or something? I'm not sure what's causing this weird urge to change everything, but I'm starting to notice the pattern between becoming unbalanced and the next day needing to clean.

Any thoughts? It's sounds really silly now that I'm reading it back to myself, but yeah... That's me.

Rearranging the office furniture/cleaning to me sounds like you're getting pressure on the joints/exercise out of it as well. May be your brain's way of getting what it needs that way to settle you down.

An extra thought about it, anyway. :-)

I'm really sorry you had such a horrible night.

I never thought of that, but yeah, it does involve a lot of movement and lifting. Huh! That makes sense! Thanks for the thought! I always feel better afterwards too.

Thanks! Not all my nights get to that point, but yesterday was just one of those day. Ah well. I get to enjoy a nice peaceful weekend so that's good.

HI,

I am in a unique situation. I took in someone who is a young adult. I work as a child care provider, so I am aware of sensory challenges in children. I have determined with the person I took in that there are sensory issues and she is seeing that now, too. So, here's my question, she speaks of a "tingling" at the tip of her finger and needing to touch certain things to relieve the "urge". I understand this, but I'm curious. What do you do, as a parent, if their touching to relieve the urge involves touching another person--not in a disgusting or inappropriate way--more like needing to touch their nose or a spot on a chin or something like that? I understand, if the person is okay with it, then no worries, but what if the person is not okay with it and she is insistent? how do you handle it?

thanks for the help

rearranging furniture, I thought I was crazy for that. I rearrange the furniture in my house regularly, like every month or two. I was never sure if it was just because every house I've ever lived in is designed so stupidly that no matter where you put anything it still feels wrong, but often I find a great sense of pleasure and relief from a new arrangement of furniture, but it only lasts a month or two and then I have to do it again. Even if I end up putting the furniture back how it was at some earlier point, it feels good to have it different. Like my eyes get bored of the same arrangement after a while.

(08-18-2013, 06:28 PM)sensoryhelp1 Wrote: HI,

I am in a unique situation. I took in someone who is a young adult. I work as a child care provider, so I am aware of sensory challenges in children. I have determined with the person I took in that there are sensory issues and she is seeing that now, too. So, here's my question, she speaks of a "tingling" at the tip of her finger and needing to touch certain things to relieve the "urge". I understand this, but I'm curious. What do you do, as a parent, if their touching to relieve the urge involves touching another person--not in a disgusting or inappropriate way--more like needing to touch their nose or a spot on a chin or something like that? I understand, if the person is okay with it, then no worries, but what if the person is not okay with it and she is insistent? how do you handle it?

thanks for the help

Find another thing that also works to touch. There will probably be something other than people that works.

I have issues with having my hands seek tactile things. I've searched and found a variety of things that work at different points in time. The thing that works always isn't always available. So, I have a decent sized set of things that sometimes work, and I go through and test with those. Frequently, the ones that aren't good help a little but not enough, eventually, I manage to get my hands to not be in pain.

And, in doing so I can make it so I don't want to chew my hands off, which is what I want to do if I can't find something.