Wondering about fellow autistics:
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#ActuallyAutistic
Do any of you find video/audio being out of sync - on your TV, your computer, where ever - to be completely disorienting? I can't watch it. I'm in a telecon right now where the video and audio are about 2 seconds off from each other, and I had to minimize the window, so I was just listening. It's almost a panic reaction, when I can't fix it.
@ScottSoCal @actuallyautistic omg yes.
If it’s outta sync, if they play music with lyrics during dialogue, if it’s a clear channel top 40 song shoehorned in a scene it doesn’t fit: music/audio in media I consume can cause me to have a visceral reaction.
Glad to hear I’m not alone.
@kataklysm @flexghost @ScottSoCal @actuallyautistic
Aren't out of sync audio & subs universally upsetting?
A subtler issue: the film Iorram (Boat Song) took old voice recordings of Gaelic speaking fisher folk & paired them with English subs & new visuals of modern fishers.
But the new visuals didn't always match thematically, AND, visual scene switches/edits often followed a timing unrelated to the subs/voices. The effect was SICKENINGLY disorienting for me & another #ActuallyAutistic friend.
@kataklysm @flexghost @ScottSoCal @actuallyautistic
Also on #Subtitles & being #ActuallyAutistic :
I can be slow at processing both text & audio, but subtitles do help with the audio. Yet these days I find subtitles flash by too quickly.
When people are speaking rapidly that's fair enough; but sometimes the subs disappear too soon despite long pauses before the next line of dialogue.
It's a disability issue & an odd choice by film-makers in an era of better accessibility awareness.
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