Children with ADHD are 3x more likely to experience sensory overload than neurotypical peers.
It's not being dramatic.
It's a nervous system processing everything at once, at full intensity.
Some people call it noise. Others call it life. This piece asks what happens when sensitivity is labeled as weakness. The drawing becomes a scream for quiet in a world that never stops. If you feel too much, you are not broken—you are aware. And awareness is disruptive.
#ItsAllTooLoud #SensoryOverload #EmotionalArt #SensitiveSoul #ArtAsTruth #MentalHealthArt #ContemporaryArt #WomenArtists #HealingThroughArt #NoiseOfTheWorld #AwarenessIsPower #SensoryArtRevolution #QuietMindArtTruthNow
What's NEW is communications without body.
Telephone calls, printed books, recorded audio / music, television, film.
Nothing on earth ever prepared anyone for watching live video of places and people never seen.
Which is why I keep pointing you to Canadian Marshall McLuhan.
"The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man is a 1962 book by Marshall McLuhan, in which he analyzes the effects of mass media, especially the printing press, on European culture and human consciousness. It popularized the term global village"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gutenberg_Galaxy
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People 15,000 years ago simply did not have information from global village on newspapers delivered every morning.The number of concepts and ideas a person was exposed to was tiny. Autism issues like sensitivity to certain foods and sounds - when foods were traded globally. 5,000 years ago a person living in Alaska didn't have autistic #SensoryOverload from a tropical banana. Or recording of music that they did not hear in the womb development 9 months...
Airports are sensory nightmares for my brain. I don't travel anywhere without my noise-canceling headphones and a good audiobook. Build a sensory bubble to survive the transit! 🎧 #SensoryOverload #TravelAnxiety #BipolarLife
If the grocery store leaves you exhausted, it’s not just in your head. Sensory overload is real. Wearing earplugs or headphones in public changed the game for my energy levels. 🎧 #SensoryOverload #BipolarHacks #MentalHealth
"opposition between the oral and the visual cultures" - Canada year 1962 #AutismSpectrumDisorder #Sensory
#London #UnitedKingdom year 1969 #Year1962ToYear1969 #FWakeYearToYear
#Tommy1969 #FWakeTommy1969 #RockOpera #RockOperaTommy #TheWho
#FWakeTheWho #BabelTowerARG #FWakeBabelTowerARG
#SensoryOverload #Autism /\
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.
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.
Some of us are able to keep swimming. Many are too tired from treading water. Some of us sink. By NeuroWild
#neurodiversity #neurodivergent #mentalexhaustion #sensoryoverload #masking #trauma #emotionaldysregulation #mentalhealth #ymhc
Dr. Maria Faust
DigitalCortex.io
With Emily-Kate
Stephen Gutknecht
Scott Ninneman/SpeakingBipolar
Youth Mental Health Canada