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    Help For My Sensitive Hearing! Do Noise-Reducing Autism Earmuffs REALLY Exist, or Are They Just A Ri

    This isn't very meaningful without a bit more context. If you mean that the relationship between sound pressure level, measured in decibels, and sound pressure, measured in Pascals, is not linear, then yes, that's true. We define SPL based on the logarithm of pressure because we want SPL to...
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    Help For My Sensitive Hearing! Do Noise-Reducing Autism Earmuffs REALLY Exist, or Are They Just A Ri

    Sometimes people don't get very good attenuation with the squashy earplugs because they don't know how to fit them. This page shows the correct method: How To Wear Soft Foam Earplugs
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    Help For My Sensitive Hearing! Do Noise-Reducing Autism Earmuffs REALLY Exist, or Are They Just A Ri

    I'm a professor of acoustics. As others have said, you certainly can get ear defenders that will reduce levels by around 30 dB, which should feel significantly quieter. Peltor and 3M (amongst others) are reputable brands. As someone else said, you could also try wearing both disposable earplugs...
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    Special interests & a Career

    We have very close, but not identical interests. I played bass guitar in an indie band and when that ended, the only thing I could envisage doing was acoustics research. My PhD is in concert hall acoustics and I became very interested in psychoacoustics - initially as part of room acoustics (why...
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    Special interests & a Career

    Never thought I'd discover another autistic acoustician here! Sound has always been my special interest. From making my own bass guitar electronics as a teenager to a subsequent research career in acoustics. I tell my first year students that I feel very lucky that, after twenty years of...
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    Is there anyone that has aspergers & children and can help me please?

    I'm a father but I can relate to some of your experience. When you say you just found out a week ago, do you mean you were diagnosed a week ago? Some of what you're experiencing sounds like the confusion and re-examining your life that tends to happen when you get diagnosed as an adult. It takes...
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    Thank You - Research Findings

    Hi Amy, Thanks very much for returning with your results. It's especially interesting that you do this before your write-up is complete. The first thing that strikes me is that you don't find a relationship between your measures of interests and the well-being scores. This is surprising, given...
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    Plane friendly stim toys

    My daughter was given a little tub of play-dough when she 'graduated' from a week-long summer course for kids on the spectrum. She loved it. Sadly, the following week it was confiscated at a UK airport because it fell within their category for possible explosives. She was distraught. It wasn't a...
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    Being "mothered" by people

    I get this quite a bit at work and, on the whole, I like it. I'm male, in my 50s and an academic. I tend to get mothered by female admin staff, of all ages. So I'll wander into the dept office looking a bit vague and an admin assistant in her 20s will ask if I'm OK and if I need any help. In my...
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    Where did you learn to research?

    Agreed. I work in a university and I occasionally hide in the library stacks, where the printed journals are. Not many other people go there now.
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    Where did you learn to research?

    Oh, I wouldn't go as far as that. I love physical books. And I like physical academic journals (though I accept the latter are a bit of an indulgence.) For research results, there's also a significant difference in quality control between an edited book from a good university press and a website.
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    Where did you learn to research?

    I've always loved libraries, as long as they are quiet enough. As a teenager with an interest in electronics, I found my local town library had a lovely reference section downstairs which took a couple of electronics hobbyist periodicals. While the lending library upstairs would be crowded and...
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    I think college is a giant waste of time and money, especially for us

    I feel slightly reluctant to defend my profession in the face of all these bad experiences, but I'll have a go. I'm an engineering professor in the UK. The higher education system is pretty different from that in the US, so some of my views might not apply in the US. There seem to be two main...
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    How does eye contact 'feel" for you.

    I find eye contact generally uncomfortable, often just distracting, sometimes inappropriately intimate - like it can be hard to get them out of my head. Before I was diagnosed, I noticed that my eye contact was awkward and that people around me had got used to me staring off into space when...
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    Hi. I'm very new to this...50 and in the process of formal assessment

    Hi MarkD67, and welcome. I'm 53, diagnosed just last year. There are several people here in their 50s and older, so you might find some lived experience here of late diagnosis that feels familiar to you.
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