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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.
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 :)