Sensory sensitivity
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Autistic people are often hypersensitive or hyposensitive to certain sensory stimuli. Different senses may be affected in different ways.
Hypersensitivity
Definition, examples
Hyposensitivity
Definition, examples
See also
- Sensory overload
- Auditory perception (sound)
- Gustatory perception (taste)
- Olfactory perception (smell)
- Tactile perception (touch)
- Visual perception (sight)
- Interoception (internal -- thirst, hunger, etc)
- Alexithymia (emotions)
