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Sensory Vid

OkRad

OkRad

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I like this but it comes on too slowly and then stops. To make this real, they need to have it play at the peak noise for about, oh 8 hours? Some people make vids where they take a bar or two of a song and leave it on repeat for 8 hours. If someone did that to this video on peak noise, it MIGHT COME CLOSE to what it feels like. Oh, but see, they can't capture the incessant annoyance of someone who's perfume got stuck in your nose and you cannot get it out, like musk or something. Or the smell of cigarettes or gas or fabric softener that will NOT leave you alone for about 8 hours. Or the light that is pounding away at you as you are trying to get to the store.......

Sure, it's a start. But this will never annoy an NT like it annoys us.

 
If someone really wanted to understand sensory issues, they should take that person and lock them in a room.

Next they would pour something like bleach all over the floor and coat the wallls, too.

Then, they would shine the same lights an optometrists uses into their eyes non-stop.

Next they would play something like, "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor" FULL BLAST and keep it playing.

Then, they would have to eat food that has maggots all over it or other bugs, and that is all they get.

Next, they would make them wear clothes made out of sandpaper and bring in people to rub up against them and push on them to distract them when they are trying to figure out how to cope with all that.

Finally those people who are pushing on them would say things like, "WHAT? I don't smell anything! You are psychotic. I don't hear anything loud. Let the Bodies Hit the Floor is the next Mozart! WTF is your problem? You're a freak. You are so stupid. I really don't hear any noise. This food? OMG it's gourmet! You are totally bizarre. Freak!"

Maybe even smack them a few times if they won't eat the food or INSIST they smell bleach.

THEN, leave them there all alone for about a month in that state. OH YEAH, they are going to have "obvious brain changes" and a load of other stuff, too.

That's more accurate than a few second video on loud noises.
 
Yeah, I couldn't make it to the end either! It's like, I've been "making to the end" my whole life, I don't have to anymore. Plus it brings back a powerful memory of the first time I encountered one, shortly after my dx: it underscored that what I'm going through is real...I cried and cried for sometime afterwards.

Emotions...ugh.
 
Alcyon said:
Yeah, I couldn't make it to the end either! It's like, I've been "making to the end" my whole life, I don't have to anymore. Plus it brings back a powerful memory of the first time I encountered one, shortly after my dx: it underscored that what I'm going through is real...I cried and cried for sometime afterwards.

Emotions...ugh.
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I made it to the end, only because I was gradually turning the sound down as it went on...probably not the point lol. I then ended up clicking on another video after that one about an aspie girl who worked in a library and had sensory overload from a fire alarm test. Big mistake there, as fire alarms have always been an issue for me. I try not to make a big deal of it in adulthood, but when I was a kid I used to have to be taken out of the school by a teaching assistant when they tested the alarms, as if I was inside I would just scream non-stop and cover my ears. Strangely, nobody thought this was an issue.
 
xudo said:
I made it to the end, only because I was gradually turning the sound down as it went on...probably not the point lol. I then ended up clicking on another video after that one about an aspie girl who worked in a library and had sensory overload from a fire alarm test. Big mistake there, as fire alarms have always been an issue for me. I try not to make a big deal of it in adulthood, but when I was a kid I used to have to be taken out of the school by a teaching assistant when they tested the alarms, as if I was inside I would just scream non-stop and cover my ears. Strangely, nobody thought this was an issue.
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Ohmygosh fire alarms. When I hear they are testing, I beat it fast. In school once, it went off and I had my ear plugs in my pocket, thank goodness, but for the rest of the day, too late.....jarred so bad. I hate those things. Like get real, are the trying to get the dead people to raise up out of their graves are run away, too? Because I am sorry, there is no one who cannot hear that. One fire alarm in Washington state and you can hear it in Florida. Pah, don;t get me started on noise, superfluous noise, unnecessary noise just for noise sake.
 
I never watch those simulations....I am always curious about them but I don't want to be overloaded -- that happens enough without deliberately inflicting it on myself.

OkRad, I think you are right that you'd need to have an immersive in-person simulation to help a lot of people understand.
 
I covered my ears and played it to my NT partner, then asked him how it made him felt... He shrugged and said it didn't do anything. He didn't feel or think anything, I told him I couldn't watch it to thr end because it hurt my ears and drove me nuts and he was surprised
 
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