Sensory overload strikes ADHD and Autistic brains equally.

When the brain fails to filter input, a loud room or a scratchy tag stops being a minor annoyance. It morphs into physical pain. The experience drains your energy.

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Sensory overload strikes ADHD and Autistic brains equally.

When the brain fails to filter input, a loud room or a scratchy tag stops being a minor annoyance. It morphs into physical pain. The experience drains your energy.

#SensoryOverload #AuDHD #ADHD #ASD

Some of us are able to keep swimming. Many are too tired from treading water. Some of us sink. By NeuroWild

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This is one of the best illustrations of sensory overload I've seen.

(As a warning - if you are sensitive to sound and visual overload, this video really might be too much for you.)

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2P4Ed6G3gw

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Sensory Overload Triggers

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Any young people on here who can explain why so many of you are so loud?

We live in a world where neurodivergence — autism, sensory processing disorder, etc — is more recognised than ever. Many people with such conditions are adversely affected by bright light, loud noises, etc.

And that's not counting anybody who might simply have a headache.

So why the super bright LEDs and super loud people? Especially when there's no need for it?

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Living alone, I'd just have spent this weekend doing nothing, with no sensory input that I can't control. I wouldn't even have noticed there was a problem.

The way it is, overstimulated as I am from a full-day workshop and long car commute on Thursday and with no way to calm my senses through Friday, I'm sitting at the breakfast table, crying from overwhelm. My husband was making bread (loud machine!) and de-cluttering the kitchen (loud visuals) when I came downstairs to eat, and it pushed me over the edge. Even the birdsong outside the window is too much right now.

At times like these, I feel genuinely disabled by being autistic.

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