#sensitivities

"Of COURSE you can light a candle, I love fire!"

"Oh, can you throw my sweater in with the other clothes that got muddy? It's cold out and I'd like to wear it home."

"I'm gonna go over and play with those long sticks in the pretty holder. Your knickknacks are so PRETTY!"

So please, if you know your friends and they are as easily distracted from their own health as I am, ask them if they WANT you to step in before they murder themselves via easily avoided dangers. The amount of times I have had to choose between

having my brain shut down from fumes that I accidentally okayed, and

awkwardly telling someone that actually all their work needs to be undone because I forgot that people like pretty smells

I had a bra that I fucking hated and couldn't stand to wear even though it fit the best (out of my current options), because the straps were touching the sensitive spot in front of my armpits, and I couldn't wear strapless because it kept sagging down. So I added a loop closer to the front, and now it barely feels like I have it on

In walk Baggy Pants that are too long or too wide around the hips, Ill-fitted Bras, Tanktops but the straps are too long or the neckline is uncomfortably revealing

Most who were friends didn't understand or would get offended when I disappeared for days, weeks or months sometimes.

It's not personal. The world is alot. Most times I'm so in my head disconnecting to engage with anything else is hardly possible.

~IntrovertedSage~

⁂27.2022.11 8.17m

I got a rheumatic condition and because of that sometimes I feel something like pain in my body. And until now I always take medicine for that (as advised by my doctor) but I recently started to realize that sometimes medicine doesn’t work and those times the “feeling” is not exactly the same. And I started wandering if it could be something different. Usually this happen when I wear some kinds of clothes or if I go in a crowded place or I’m stressed. Also I remember that since I was a child (years before I started presenting rheumatic symptoms) I had always have really weird wearing habits. I would prefer to feel cold than to wear a jacket or something that covered my arms (I used to describe it as the clothes touching me if that makes sense). I also have always heated socks. Also I really can’t stand people touching me, specially if I’m stressed. So, my question is, could this be a sensory thing? I have been doing research but all I can find are just simple description that doesn’t give me any useful information. Sorry for the long question and thanks you so much for your time. Here’s a dinosaur for u 🦖(Also English isn’t my first lenguaje so if I make any mistakes sorry)

Thank you very much for the dinosaur 🦕

This one is difficult because rheumatoid arthritis can come with a whole range of other sensitives such as skin sensitivity, temperature sensitivity etc, especially during a flare.