May I suggest the book Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight by Sharon Heller? It has a lot of great suggestions and explains why some people experience sensory defensiveness (that's what it's called outside of the autism spectrum). The things that help me are: I am visually defensive. Places that are too bright make me a tense ball of nerves. I wear a hat constantly to block some of it out. Auditory defensiveness can be helped a lot of the time by bone conduction headphones. They can help lower your stress by introducing relaxing stimuli on top of the offensive one. Depending on where you are, you can see a neurologist or an occupational therapist, which is the route I'm on now, since my T introduced me to it.
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