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I don't mean to be presumptive but are bright colors and loud noises overwhelming for autistic people? I can't think of a worse vehicle than a brightly colored siren box. Not to mention the times that police have beat up autistic people.
I don’t mean to be presumptive but are bright colors and loud noises overwhelming for autistic people?
Depends on the person. I think autistic people have a tendency to be more easily overwhelmed / overstimulated than most people (I certainly do!) but for me it doesn't really present visually like that. Flashing lights, bright colors, all that's fine. Sounds certainly, but it's usually about overlaying sounds that I'm trying to focus on. So, to go through a couple examples: Busy street full of cars, police sirens / ambulance sirens etc? All fine, I can just tune it all out. Various voices in their own conversations in a room? Totally fine. Video games and music combined? Fine. Video games, music, and one voice trying to talk to me? Suddenly that's overwhelming. So I turn off the music at that point.
I don't mean to be presumptive but are bright colors and loud noises overwhelming for autistic people? I can't think of a worse vehicle than a brightly colored siren box. Not to mention the times that police have beat up autistic people.
they absolutely can be for me, but other times they can be soothing. depends a lot on context
But yeah, in my nightmares of being caught in a police riot that's the car that'll roll up on me from now on
And it's not presumptive, it was an honest question asked with the intent to better understand, and that's always good <3
Depends on the person. I think autistic people have a tendency to be more easily overwhelmed / overstimulated than most people (I certainly do!) but for me it doesn't really present visually like that. Flashing lights, bright colors, all that's fine. Sounds certainly, but it's usually about overlaying sounds that I'm trying to focus on. So, to go through a couple examples: Busy street full of cars, police sirens / ambulance sirens etc? All fine, I can just tune it all out. Various voices in their own conversations in a room? Totally fine. Video games and music combined? Fine. Video games, music, and one voice trying to talk to me? Suddenly that's overwhelming. So I turn off the music at that point.
Speaking as someone with aspergers specifically.
Sounds similar to how it is for me :)
idk about bright colors, but loud noises are terrifying as fuck for me, speaking as an aspie