National Autistic Society video: Could You Stand the Rejection?

[the_tortoise]

Short autism awareness video.

 

[pamelaperejil]

Thank you for posting.

 

[Dwoops]

Great video, love the subtlety of it. Though some of the text is hard to read when it comes up. Plus I feel like it doesn’t stay long enough for me to process it before it leaves .
As much as I think it does a good job I feel like people who don’t know what to look for/don’t understand, won’t pick up on the subtleties of it.

 

[Graphin]

How realistic and varying are the sensory issues pictured there?

 

[Major Tom]

That was on point. Especially the buzzing lights and the coffee spoon. Everything else hit too, but those ones especially.

 

[Progster]

Ouch!!! I have sensory issues myself with the special effects in the video which make it very hard to watch, especially at the very beginning. I can't stand those rapid flashing images or sounds!!!

Though some of the text is hard to read when it comes up. Plus I feel like it doesn’t stay long enough for me to process it before it leaves

Same here - though perhaps that's on purpose?

 

[Ezra]

I think it's a good representation of what that person experiences.

This is a similar version:

 

[Progster]

I think it's a good representation of what that person experiences.

This is a similar version:

More painful sound effects.

 

[Ezra]

More painful sound effects.

Probably added to make the viewer feel uncomfortable like the person in the video. But I don't like it either.

 

[the_tortoise]

How realistic and varying are the sensory issues pictured there?

It's hard to answer that, because all of these videos are meant as simulations to give a general picture and every autistic person is different....

It's difficult to simulate sensory sensitivities to ordinary things without changing them in some way to make them uncomfortable or more intense to the non-autistic, non-sensory-processing-issues-experiencing person.....portraying sensitivities to touch and smell (smell particularly) are incredibly difficult, since neither or those senses are involved in watching a video -- and yet those sensitivities can be just as intense/difficult/disabling as visual and auditory ones (or more disabling/difficult, depending on the person and the context).

You can't really know it unless you live it but I think the video I posted and the one Ezra posted do a good job of giving people an idea.

 

[Graphin]

The functioning definitions are very vague, but where would those videos potentially be placed on that?

 

[the_tortoise]

The functioning definitions are very vague, but where would those videos potentially be placed on that?

I don't know.