Content note: The first paragraph has a description of sensory triggers and is primarily intended to be read by people without sensory processing issues. Consider all the seemingly benign things that ‘get to you’ or ‘throw you off’: the incessant sound of the clock ticking, the loud twang of a doorbell, trying to focus when multiple people are speaking to you at once, trying to find a specific item amidst row after row of colourfully packaged products stacked in a supermarket