Is it normal to not have sensory issues as an autistic person?

[vergil96]

Hm. I don't know your specific situation, but it's a good rule of thumb to at first be professional and polite, than get more friendly, meet outside work, when you see that you get on with the person. And keep less toned down conversations that you would worry if someone at work overheard to the meetings outside.

 

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Did you join clubs to make friends?

No, I never did. Most clubs here are sports venues for team sports and strangely enough, I'm autistic and don't do very well in team situations. I was very active and sporty when I was young but only ever solo sports.

Aussie pubs are in a way similar to an old English pub but built on a much grander scale. They cook and serve proper restaurant meals and are usually cheaper and better places to eat than normal restaurants.

During the day they're most often frequented by workers and business people having a long lunch, in a way this fills a similar role to a European cafe. In the early evening they become family friendly venues and the main focus is on food, then in the later evening they become simply an entertainment venue, often with live music.

When I was working long hours, which was most of the time, I usually went to the pub after work to get a proper meal instead of going home and cooking for myself. I'd have a few beers as well while I was there and this was also how I met women.

Aussie pubs cater to the younger crowds and are usually entertainment venues on Friday and Saturday nights but during the week most of their business comes from single working professionals. These flood the pubs of a night time during the week, they're after a good meal, a few drinks and a bit of conversation.

They don't want loud music and they especially don't want a large screen TV showing the football because they want a quiet and relaxing environment after a long and stressful day.

 

[Kit]

I never had many but I was still diagnosed with sensory processing disorder as a kid.

 

[maleonolo]

I never had many but I was still diagnosed with sensory processing disorder as a kid.

How does that impact your life? I seem to have audio processing disorder which makes it difficult to understand what others say (not sure if it falls under sensory processing disorder)

 

[MildredHubble]

I can hear a lot of sounds that most people just can't. When people were using old fashioned harddrives I could hear when they were on their way out and about to fail.

Sorry to skip the thread back in time briefly! But I absolutely can relate to this. I can hear a failing hard disk from 20 feet away! The amount of times I've warned people who told me to go away and shut up, in no uncertain terms when I let them know their hard disk had mere weeks left.

They never listened of course and ironically thought I'd be able to fix it because of my insights. I remember at work I could hear a hard disk failing and no one would listen despite a server constantly crashing. They preferred to believe it needed a bios update! Of course the hard disk failed pretty soon after.

The slightest deviation in the sounds of a hard disk I can hear. Same goes for cars, I can tell if the bottom end is failing or valves are damaged in the top end. I can tell often by the sound if the engine is running rich or lean. I can hear timing issues and misfires. This has been a very useful skill or sensitivity to have as I can pick a mechincally good car for peanuts and almost always detect a problem months before it becomes a huge issue. I've only ever had one issue with a car catch me of guard (my dads last car).

Also we never lose data due to hard disk failures, hopefully I haven't jinxed that lol!

I can also hear when power supplies are about to fail. Which has helped us avoid a few disasters too.

 

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Also we never lose data due to hard disk failures, hopefully I haven't jinxed that lol!

Easy back yard butcher fixes:

Wrap the drive in a teatowel to keep it dry and put it in the freezer for 24 hours. Don't unwrap the drive when you take it out, you want it to stay cold as long as possible. This will often give you just enough time to strip all data from the drive.

Or:

Buy a second drive. Open both drives up and put the platter from the old drive into the new one and close it up again. This is not a dust free environment and the new drive will wear out much more quickly than normal but you'll get months out of it before it fails, plenty of time to transfer all of it's data.

 

[MildredHubble]

Wrap the drive in a teatowel to keep it dry and put it in the freezer for 24 hours. Don't unwrap the drive when you take it out, you want it to stay cold as long as possible. This will often give you just enough time to strip all data from the drive.

About 25 years ago, somehow the ATA controller on my PC got set from 33MHz to 66MHz. I'm still not sure how. I think maybe I accidentally struck a key that changed the setting while I was reaching for f10 (?) to save settings. Whatever happened, the drive died. It didn't make any unusual noises, it just got flaky and then shut down.

This was back when my knowledge of electronics was a lot more limited than it is today. But, I had heard that some people put car radios in the freezer to bypass the code lock. I'm actually not sure still if that was all an urban myth but I thought, maybe freezing the hard disk would do something. So I put it in the freezer and amazingly, when I plugged it in to my PC it sprung to life. I was able to rescue a few of my Cubase projects but when the drive died again freezing it didn't help a second time.

I still have those cubase files on my NAS and on a backup. Funny thing is, even after all those years I've never done anything with them, but I psychologically view them as important so they have survived for decades