Sensory profile self-screen · shared result
Low sensory load
Your overall sensory load looks low. Important: if any single channel is marked as elevated below, that channel is still a real signal — one strong channel matters even when the overall picture is calm. A low score also doesn’t rule anything out.
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?
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Other bands on this screen
- Moderate sensory loadSome of your sensory channels are clearly elevated. The channel-by-channel breakdown below is the useful part — even one or two strongly elevated channels are a real signal worth s…
- Significant sensory loadSeveral of your sensory channels are clearly elevated. This level of sensory difference takes real energy in everyday environments, so support and adjustments matter. The channel-b…
- Profound sensory loadYour answers suggest sensory differences across most channels, strong enough to shape daily life. The ideas in the channel-by-channel section are starting points; an occupational t…
Not a diagnosis. Not medical advice. A self-screen result is a starting point — for self-understanding and, where it helps, a clinician conversation.