Sensotype is a two-minute answer to a question most adults have never been asked directly: how much does each of your senses actually want?
Everyone has a stable pattern. Some people cook with music on and drive with the windows down; some own six identical soft shirts and hear the refrigerator from two rooms away. Most of us are both at once, on different channels - sound, sight, touch, movement, social energy - and we've been quietly designing our lives around the pattern for years without a name for it. Sensotype gives it a name. The test reads your preferences across all five channels and sorts them into one of twelve types, each described in plain language you can say out loud to the person you live with.
Who makes this. Sensotype was built by Dr. Mike Neal, an optometrist. Optometry is one of the few jobs where you spend your career in a quiet room asking adults precise questions about how they experience one of their senses - and getting honest answers, because people want the right result. Years of those conversations left a pattern he couldn't unsee: adults describing their sensory preferences apologetically, as if strong preferences were a character flaw instead of ordinary human variation. Sensotype is the vocabulary he wished he could have handed across the exam table. He reviews every page published on this site.
What it isn't. Sensotype is a self-reflection tool, not a medical instrument. It measures preferences - how you like to take in the world - never abilities, and never health. It can't detect, rule out, or treat any condition, and we say so on every result page. If a sensory experience is causing you real distress or shrinking your life, that's a conversation for a professional who can actually examine you, and our pages will always point you that way rather than pretend a quiz can help.
Why the free result stays free. Your full type, free, no email required. That's permanent. We'd rather you read your result, feel accurately described, and tell someone, than meet a paywall at the moment of recognition. The paid guides ($29 or $99, one-time, no subscription) go deeper for people who want more; they never claw back what the free result already gave you.
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