Sensory profile self-screen · shared result
Low sensory load
Your responses don’t strongly suggest elevated sensory processing differences. That doesn’t rule them out — particularly in a single channel that may not have come through clearly in the items — but a different framework may fit better.
This is a shared band description from one of our self-screens. No personal data here — just the band someone landed in.
Someone shared a low-load sensory result with you
If this link landed in your inbox from a partner, friend, or colleague, a low band does not mean the eight channels are irrelevant to them — it means their combined score across visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory, vestibular, proprioceptive, and interoceptive input sits near the population average. The most useful thing you can do with that is stop reading the whole result as a headline and go straight to the per-channel numbers underneath. A low overall band routinely hides one channel running hot, and that lone channel is the one they were probably trying to show you.
So the accommodation ask is narrow, not sweeping. If their auditory bar is the raised one, that is a request to pick the quieter table and not the one beside the coffee grinder — it is not a request to rethink every plan you make together. If it is olfactory, it is a heads-up about your new aftershave, not about the whole flat. Low-band people are the easiest to accommodate precisely because the fix is small and specific; the mistake is treating a single-channel note as either nothing or as a total overhaul.
Reading your own low result before you file it away
If the result is yours, a low band is genuinely good information and worth holding lightly at the same time. Two things routinely pull a real profile down into the low band on a screen. The first is seeking that reads as preference rather than sensory need: if your proprioceptive and vestibular channels crave heavy pressure and motion, you answer 'no problem' to most avoidance items and land low — but the gym-as-medication, the leg that never stops, the deep-pressure hug you actively chase are still a sensory channel doing work, just on the appetite side of the ledger rather than the aversion side.
The second is a quiet interoceptive gap. Under-registration on the internal channel — not clocking hunger until you are shaking, not clocking a full bladder until it is urgent, not clocking rising heart rate until it is a problem — produces a low score on a screen built mostly around what bothers you, because a channel you cannot feel cannot bother you. If that is the shape of your result, the next step is not more accommodation; it is externalising the signal you are missing. Eat and drink to a clock, not to a cue. Set a body-scan reminder. A low band on this one channel is a schedule problem, not a comfort problem.
Curious about your own?
Take the Sensory screen.
Free. About 5 minutes. ND-affirming. No email gate, no diagnosis, no advice you didn’t ask for — just a scored result and a dimension breakdown.
Other bands on this screen
- Moderate sensory loadSome sensory channels are clearly elevated for you. The per-channel breakdown below is where the actual useful information lives — even a moderate overall score with one or two str…
- Significant sensory loadYour sensory profile shows clear elevation across multiple channels. Accommodation isn’t optional in this band — the friction between your nervous system and a standard environment…
- Profound sensory loadYour responses suggest sensory differences across most channels, at intensities that materially shape your daily life. The accommodations in the per-channel section are starting po…
Not a diagnosis. Not medical advice. A self-screen result is a starting point — for self-understanding and, where it helps, a clinician conversation.