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Yes indeed, though mine are far less severe and more of on-and-off issues. There are days when I can't stand the feel of paper or even the thought of a rough surface or I won't stop shivering. Popsicle sticks are a nightmare to me. Even if I take the ice cream off of the stick, I still can't eat it because I know it was on the stick before.

Light and sound at night are my biggest problems but only at night when I'm trying to sleep. If I get even the tiniest bit of outside light in my room, even if I actually can't see it when I'm laying down but know it's there, I get really upset and won't sleep until every light it out, except for my alarm clock. With sound, I have supersonic ears at night, and if I can hear it, I won't stand it. My parents are driven crazy by my obsession with having to turn everything in the house off and shoo everyone into their own rooms or places that I won't be bothered by them before sleeping. I hear things that normal people can't hear, and have no tolerance for high-pitched noises. They'll drive me insane after a few seconds.

I have to distract myself so I don't freak out. Thats why I took up knitting. No one thinks its weird to knit nowadays and I still have a repetitive task to focus on instead of lets say, some ones smoke, or a loud/large group of people, or a lawnmower.

I am very much the same.

I also have trouble in areas where there is a lot of noise coming from all around me. I used to work in retail and it was absolutely horrible for me up at the cash registers during busy times. Most of the time I couldn't tell if the beeps were coming from my own scanner scanning items or the one a few rows over (or the one beside that, and so on). Very difficult to speak to customers with all that going on, as well.