Getting Top Surgery When You Have Sensory Processing Issues: A Narrative Experience
This post is for all my autistic, ADHD, and neurodiverse folks who have sensory processing and/or touch sensitivities that can drive you absolutely all the way up the wall, over it, and then crash and burn on the other side who are looking at top surgery because good goddamn those boobs just need to go the fuck away already but what are you getting into really? And if you're like me and your chest, shoulders and upper arms are particularly problematic areas where you just notice everything all the time always well, then this post is definitely for you. I'm currently two weeks post-op, so I'm in the thick of it in terms of just what it means to lose feeling in your chest following top surgery. I had double incision top surgery with nipple grafts, though the risks of loss of feeling and all that come with most forms of top surgery because, well, it's major surgery, someone is cutting into you and taking tissue out and things happen to bodies when you do that. I am not a ...