Wait, so you’re telling me this isn’t the “normal” experience? Personally, when I’m in nature, I feel completely comfortable and normal, it’s just when I’m in society that it’s difficult. I think people should make videos of how neurotypicals experience things so autistic people can know what it’s like, I’m very interested
I would guess just turn everything to a low volume. I'm a little on the deaf side and I can imagine how certain sounds would be much more annoying if they were loud instead of barely audible. Or if what's loud to me was physically painful and caused the sensation of hearing loss. Such a thing would be maddening enough without the added element of the brain processing everything differently.
Dark polarized sunglasses help me a lot, reduces glare and flickering as well as giving me the ability to look at someones direction without looking at their eyes but still giving them the impression i am. Without them i'm really walking around with my eyes closed 3/4 of the time.
It's like we perceive the world in a raw unfiltered way constantly. Whereas most peoples' brains are able to filter out noises and almost "mix" the volumes.
so so often i’ll be someplace like a restaurant & my boyfriend will be trying to talk about the somg that is playing over the loud speaker & i just can’t filter it out. it’s already difficult enough to pay close attention to what he is saying, but with the sounds of people walking or moving things around or anything at all it all just blurs together. it can be super super frustrating.
Wow. I thought this was how everone hears/experiences things. Only thing missing was people in the café and being able yo hear every word they were saying and kids in the supermarket. Thank you for this - as someone who experiences it for letting me know I'm not alinee and for giving me something to show others.
That feels pretty close, the blurred vision when there is just too much stuff to see at the same time, the feeling of all the sounds becoming a mass of white noise, and even the feeling of things slowing down too. But I think the most annoying part is how this can affect you physically too, no video can show that. I literally get dizzy and feel like I'm gonna pass out or vomit sometimes, or it feels like I have a backpack that keeps getting heavier, sometimes it feels like my legs are getting soft.
I get a twich or a lag stamp when i get too much audio or physical input, and its really weird how life can be so different from a neutrotypical person
What do neurotypical people experience? I thought this was missing a lot, like snippets of conversation going on. What these videos don’t capture is the multiple trains of thought going on concurrently in my head the whole time, and the way any of the stimuli can cause the story line to vector into a new direction or jump the rails to a completely different story. The video was also missing the ambient music playing in the background and the stream of memories and fantasies associated with each song.
Its an absolute nightmare. Sensory processing disorder i have it but its life so i just keep on going as best as i can. Im grateful to Autosm Together especially Julie Anglesey she is my tutor at woodwork and ive learned a lot of amazing life skills since being there. Thankyou Autism Together staff you all deserve Medals
i hate it so so much when im just trying to drive down the road & someone has their bass boosted to the max or their engine is absurdly loud. the pumping sounds in my eardrums feel horrible, & the feeling of the ground shaking is super frightening to me. i understand that there’s not a lot that can be done about a noisy engine, but i do wish that people wouldn’t play their music so loudly that people outside of the car can hear & feel the rumblings :/
I'd say everything is pretty accurate except for the grocery store. It's not really muffled like that, more like screeching. Like how a baby screams from the back of its throat.
This felt normal. Sometimes a bit more intense, because when my brain focuses on something it ignores all, though I can't control that so even if I focus in a conversation, it's not really working. The cafe scene was very realistic. Also, it's quite normal to hear household appliances. Usually a fridge or washing machine, it can be as loud as a drill even though it's so far away. Or just a light buzz from the lights.
Yep. And every car outside, despite the double pane glass. Friends have said for 18 years they don’t hear the road and I thought they were kidding. I can hear cars a mile away. That isn’t normal?
I’m in my 30’s and was recently diagnosed with autism with hypersensitivity and got depressed (still depressed 5 months later), because now I understand why I see the world the way I do and where all the pain and struggles comes from. The depression is a normal process, because I’ve been reflecting on my entire life, reviving and understanding the struggles since I was a child. All this years I’ve been lost my entire life, but finally I’m coming together with myself. I do wish I knew it when I was a kid. So much potential and curiosity all this years, but instead I just tried to live a normal life. My brain coming with so much problem solving ideas, designs, buildings, business, devices and weird stuff that are getting made nowadays. I feel this is a second chance for me, but I don’t know how to structure myself 😪
So I have adhd and I have a hard time filtering what comes through my senses is funny but sometimes I can feel the drops of rain like needles in my skin or the noises very fucking loud to the point of driving me crazy. Very ocd with certain things like when I am painting and it kind of hurts when my wife tells me to stop because is time to eat. I hate to stop doing what I am doing. I don't know man, whatever.
Hypersensitivity to Touch: In your experience, rain drops feel like pins and needles. In my experience, forced air makes me feel as though my skin has been sandblasted, and the aftereffect continues to linger for a while, sometimes even leading to migraine. I can't stand having a fan blowing a constant barrage of air movement at me. It feels intensely abrasive to put my hand out the car window and "air surf." When I try it and bring my hand back inside the car, my skin is buzzing, and not in a good way. It has been only a month since I discovered that I have Autism. The more I learn about it, the more it explains why my entire life has been "weird."
Sounds double as bad as normal to me, but I guess people who watch this get the idea. Also, this is a 2 : 38 minute video. We have to put up with this kind of stress for many hours a day and compose ourselves to not stand out from the crowd and get bullied or get strange looks.
omg those vehicles are just like when I was out with my bro yesterday ... motorcycles went by and was so loud I instantly covered my ears And beeps and hums are soooo much for me! And people talking to me while there's a lot going on in the background makes it hard for me to think straight and the sound of chairs dragging is UGH
People eating and drinking takes the cake for me. I can hear everything even them swallowing. It repulses me. ESP if it’s someone who inhales their food like their never going to eat again. I’ve gotten pretty good at waiting until their done eating to eat. It doesn’t bother me in public when you’re in a loud place, but at a table…nah, I’m out. Lolz
Wew, it's so stressful, seeing this video I feel like I want to cry or run away. I guess it must be a very good sensory experience for non-autistic people.
No it's not, for many neurotypical it is exactly the same as for autistics. People that are under stress and older people detest these type of situations . I found them unbearable that's why i don't go to the movie , the mall,to the stadium, in very crowded, loud places . Train stations of very big cities, airports and airplanes and so on . Not to mention very crowded restaurants like hard rock cafe'. My ideal world will be autistic friendly even if i'm not autistic
@@giovannamoro8564 Are you saying that neurotypicals and neurodivergent people feel the world in the same way. Because if so, you are wrong. For people with Autism everything is hightened and so is more stressful.
@@shadowfoot2486 i'm not saying they're the same .i'm referring to my experience . I'm not autistic but loud ,noisy ,visually busy places cause me to experience meltdowns.
@@giovannamoro8564 I doubt it is the experience of most neurotypical people though : sensory issues aren't something you can meet only in autism, as you said many other situations or conditions can induce it (depression, burn out, other specific sensory disorders). What I mean is, I'm a student and the other students of my school doesn't seem like they want to run away after a class in a big amphitheater, or after an exam when everyone talk and ask "how did you do". They can have a conversation normally in front of a frequented crossroad, when I will just seem deaf, trying to put my left ear in front of the mouth of my interlocutor...
This was painfull to watch, but necessary for others to understand what people with sensory issues go through. I've had headphones in my ears as soon as I could due to the soundscape around me. Now I have NC headphones and I can't go out without them. My son is autistic and complains about noise but he also hates having something pressing on his ears.
Every day I have to resist the temptation to fantasize about breaking noisy machines over the heads of their operators. Too bad video can't depict SMELL TRIGGERS.
@@withgoddess8029 Have you reached the point it is any machine noise? My level since 2019. People going into trances with very loud disruptive equipment.
I'm the only one at home or at work who can pick up the scent of moldy citrus from the other end of a building. Anyone else i know can't detect it unless it's directly under their nose. The acrid air following asphalt paving trucks burns into my nose.
I don't have a sensory disorder. In my experience, sounds in my daily life aren't as annoying as this video makes it seem. I can tune out a lot of sounds.
On the thought of making a neurotypical experience video: I can imagine presenting it as a scene by scene comparison. Neurotypical view, then Autistic view -- In the Neurotypical views, all the ambient distracting noises would be muffled to near silence. The florescent ceiling lights would be barely there, perhaps less intense than white copy-paper next to off-white copy-paper. The blur of grocery shelf items would instead be only one of each item with large gaps between the different things, and checkout at the register would be a calm, almost slow pace and actually happen, rather than feeling a racing sensation of "Get Me Outta Here! NOW!" The cashier at the coffee shop would become the only clear piece of the scenery, and we'd see her eyes instead of avoiding eye contact, while everything else goes dim and blurry and nearly silent. The man on the street would have softer facial features and not even acknowledge the viewer...
omg. Being sensory hypersensitive and watching this feels like HELL. 😱 Had to stop the sound at the coffee shop 😭 But this "simulator" is *so accurate*
I identify as a highly sensitive person (HSP), and empath, so I sense all the sounds and lights and motion as this film shows, PLUS all the odors and smells of everything, exhaust and energy of cars/trucks, PLUS temperatures, A/C blowing down my neck, , PLUS emotional and physical energy of people and animals and plants. It's not all negative, but it's all A LOT and it's easy to get overwhelmed, overstimulated and full of anxiety.
Smart smart. It took me way too long to do that for myself. I thought I was just too sensitive. Not until I started losing functioning did I start bringing them.
Yes that is it. I have A.S. everything all trying to be processed at the same time, & people are trying to figure out what the heck is with you. I liken it to looking through a toy called a kaleidescope. There's all of the parts of reality but presented in such a manner as to cause confusion as to what you're looking at.
It's really difficult to explain what we feel and each autistic person have a different perception and that perception can change with our state of mind and tiredness, some senses are also block when we're saturated, so we act like a blind or deaf sometimes too. A video can only convey sound and view issue, not touch, temperature, odor, balance etc If you want a better idea : It's a bit like if each information that your body can tell you is on a mixing table, but you can't choose what level each information come to you and some are crazily high or low. That's why it can be hard to hear a person that speak to you, we can't choose what's matter and ignore what's not matter if the background sound, odor or light... is so high that it's too inconfortable or even hurt. We can have a sense saturated by another one, then it's the wrong one that stop working. Like if you're become deaf cause you're blinded by light 🙄 It's affect us in various way... : I struggle to speak on a correct volume, my phone is not bright enough for others since the world is too bright for me so I tend to spend a lot of time in dark. I often watch video in mute with subtitle when I'm tired cause I overload by sounds all day. I struggle a lot to recognised peoples, and finding things I search arround me, I can't tell if I'm feeling cold or hot before it's too late, and can't do 2 things at the same time without messing up, even talking while walking is difficult so I often hurt myself a little by accident, then again, my sense of pain is too weird so I never know if it's really bad or not, it's quite tiring. All that leads to a lot of stress, frustration and it's really exhausting. Life feel like it's too tiring to be live sometimes so we shut down, and others time we just snap suddenly, it's a meltdown. Then we feel really bad and sorry about our behaviour afterwards. I hurt my mother just cause she touched me when I was tired, I just react like an abuse wild animal that attack out of fear. Another time my cousin stole my sunglasses that was on my face just to play, I felt like he was trying to kill me and attack him like a tiger who want to retrieve a stolen prey. I'm ashamed just after but too overload to explain myself or say "sorry". I'm just in shock and feel completely lost 😢
I do not know if I am autistic, although there are indicators I might be, but this video is very relatable. However I someone learned to at least block out sounds, for the most part. But it won't always work.
It is way worse for me. I cannot go to most places. I have hypersensory perception in all eight of my senses. Anything above 60 Db is going to cause me a seizure.
I think I discovered a glitch in my autism. With one ear playing music I like from headphones and another to listen to people, I feel completely fine! Up, down, up, down, left, right, start, select!
That is often something that people with ADHD do, to balance out things. I work with 2 screens or things on at the same time sometimes. Main thing is, you controll it. Once someone would put on music you hate, things would be different, I think.
I don't have autism but my dad sais when I was a kid the dr told him that what I deal with & how I respond to people is very similar. I have epilepsy and a heterotopia in my frontal lobe. Stuff is overwhelming alot. I tend to go to the hallway at work even just for the last 15 minutes of my lunch so I can get some peace & not have to deal with as much noise.
Does anyone else with ASD find it impossible to go into the M&S food court now? After their "theme park style refit". I cant cope in there, its so dark yet the lights are so bright! Whoever thought and designed it gave no consideration to those with sensory issues, poor eyesight or dementia.
My son was recently diagnosed with autism and I was researching into it to better understand what it is and how it's experienced. I learned it's most likely genetic. Watching and learning about it gave me insight into my own life and how "normal" the experience feels for me as well. I believe I am as well and also believe that I have the unique skill set to help guide him through life since we experience life very similarly. Makes me happy that he is my son.
I disagree that autism is genetic. Being a highly sensitive person (HSP) is genetic, as it is a super finely tuned nervous system, but autism is caused by heavy metal toxicity.
@@elan007 dont think thats the end all be all. Maybe its genetic but manipulated by toxins to either increase or decrease how it affects people. I could tell my son was from infancy and he had nothing but homemade pureed fruits and veggies
"Hyperfocus" is a thing. Your (my) mind gets so keenly focused on the one stimulus (TV, movie, book, data crunching at work, art hobbies, any "special focused interest") that everything else, including the passing of time itself, are on indefinite pause or silenced. It sometimes takes a physical interruption to pull you (me) out of The Zone.
of course i feel this just very much toned down. instead i just feel irritated without knowing why. then im like oh, its a bit loud. then put on headphones lol
Neurotypical people can filter out this kind of stuff as background noise. They can obviously still hear everything, but it's not nearly as intense and they can filter it out. Like with the coffee shop example, a neurotypical person might be able to focus on just what the barista is saying and barely hear the stuff like the chair scraping or the machine going. Autistic people would typically hear all of it at the same volume and have trouble focusing on one thing. Everybody in the comments also seems to have missed the visual stuff, like the flourescent lights having that bright spot. Again, of course neurotypical people are aware of how bright lights are, but it's like the brightness is stronger, sharper, more focused for people on the spectrum and it's hard to filter out the light to just be part of the environment. It's like neurotypical people can focus on certain aspects of the environment to filter the rest out into just being part of the background, but people on the spectrum experience all the noise at the same intensity so it's more work to filter things out so it's just "regular environmental noise". It's all the noises, at once, all together, unfiltered, same volume, same intensity, same sharpness.
Haha, I was like "mh, the coffee shop scene could use more terribly loud clinking of plates and cutlery and more intertangled voices all barking at me at full volume synchronously, and the supermarket sound is way too muffled, must be sharper and needs more cash register beep beep beep and shopping cart rattle and screaming kids etc., but other than that a perfectly normal experience for me!" 😆 First thing i do before i leave the house or the office is putting in some high-attenuating earplugs (and sunglasses on if needed), or i sure as hell will regret it 😵💫
I don't think I have autism, although they suspect I do, but those sounds made me grind my teeth and are very, very uncomfortable for anyone and it hurts my head a little bit.
At what volume is this supposed to be played? I had it on a medium volume on my phone and none of those stand out as abnormal to me. How do those sound to neurotypical persons? The same but at a lower volume?
This is completely normal to me. It's really not like this for neurotypical people?? The world must be so quiet to them. Maybe I should give myself more of a break for getting tired so easily.
This is what I am going to try and do. I'm going to try and set an appointment to get tested tomorrow. This video is my everyday life and I feel the pressure in my chest and I just want to isolate myself.
I don't have the blurry visual tunnel vision stuff, The audio stuff is like 85-90% of what i experice. But what the hell is even supposed to be exagerated in anything from 1:02 to 1:08? This is perfectly normal to me.
Actually as a autistic ..the beeping and scraping sounds are the worst ..train sounds screeching sounds repetitive buzzing sounds shit bad music in shopping malls those things plus echoing screeching children in shopping malls are the worst ..birds and wind o love it..I call those sounds ugily sounds I can handle pretty sounds good music natural sounds ect
I hate having autism to the point I wish for death I want to die I'm tired of living I'm tired of life. And all the isolation oppression discrimination I'm tired of being unloved unwanted but saying anything doesn't matter noone cares I don't matter my life don't matter.
@@JTansleyandFluffyBug I've already given up on life. I'm already dead on the inside. I'm just waiting for the rest of me to die off. I have nothing to live for. Noone loves me. I get bullied By everyone. noone helps me. I don't matter my life don't matter. People are always cruel heartless evil to me and all the world is fine with how ppl treat me. Noone cares ever
Noone understand what I'm going thru. Noone cares either. Everyone is always evil heartless cruel to me. To the point I've given up. I can't even drive down a public street without neighbors bullying me. Noones ever a friend. All I get is hate and noone cares how that affects me. I hate the world I hate everyone because everyone treats me like crap for no reason
@@louellasnugglebunny I wish I could believe you. But it's been proven to me over and over again ppl only care enough to leave a comment saying they care and that's all the further their cares go. I tried to start an autism vlog. But then this channel clean urine stash went spreading lies about me. And in this day and age ppl will believe losers like them and not even talk to me and actually get the truth. Because anyone with a brain know autistic ppl are very honest. Unlike everyone else who lie lie lie and lie some more. So I wish I could believe you when you or anyone says they care when actually that's all a lie. Noone cares about me I don't matter to anyone noone cares how miserable IAM.
I know that this is completely missing any points of the video but, I don't get why they had to play the same seagull clip 3 times in a row, thats just annoying.
That's the POINT, the video is mimicking what it's like for people on the spectrum, so it's SUPPOSED to be annoying to neurotypical people. It's to show neurotypical people what things are like for people on the autism spectrum.
Wait is this not normal? This is how I experience life. 1:20 HOLY MOTHER OF GOD A BRITISH PERSON! Worst jumpscare since Exorcist III. Please put a trigger warning on that next time.
Wait, so you’re telling me this isn’t the “normal” experience? Personally, when I’m in nature, I feel completely comfortable and normal, it’s just when I’m in society that it’s difficult. I think people should make videos of how neurotypicals experience things so autistic people can know what it’s like, I’m very interested
I would guess just turn everything to a low volume. I'm a little on the deaf side and I can imagine how certain sounds would be much more annoying if they were loud instead of barely audible. Or if what's loud to me was physically painful and caused the sensation of hearing loss. Such a thing would be maddening enough without the added element of the brain processing everything differently.
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@@Nobody-cw3ri ok nobody
@@Nobody-cw3ri who was that? Huh, I guess it was *nobody* at all
@@Otakupatriot117 1/16 volume on my bose quietcomfort 45 headphones and it still just hurts my hear. Especially the higher frequencies😖
I have asd
Dark polarized sunglasses help me a lot, reduces glare and flickering as well as giving me the ability to look at someones direction without looking at their eyes but still giving them the impression i am.
Without them i'm really walking around with my eyes closed 3/4 of the time.
oh that's awesome
It's like we perceive the world in a raw unfiltered way constantly. Whereas most peoples' brains are able to filter out noises and almost "mix" the volumes.
so so often i’ll be someplace like a restaurant & my boyfriend will be trying to talk about the somg that is playing over the loud speaker & i just can’t filter it out. it’s already difficult enough to pay close attention to what he is saying, but with the sounds of people walking or moving things around or anything at all it all just blurs together. it can be super super frustrating.
Yea
I've told my kids,
"I can't hear you there's too many people moving,"
Or
"Sorry, the Sun is really bright, what did you say?" 😂😂
Wow. I thought this was how everone hears/experiences things. Only thing missing was people in the café and being able yo hear every word they were saying and kids in the supermarket. Thank you for this - as someone who experiences it for letting me know I'm not alinee and for giving me something to show others.
Me too
Was this video unwatchable for u to watch at 1/16 volume? If not, then u are used to it being autistic.
That feels pretty close, the blurred vision when there is just too much stuff to see at the same time, the feeling of all the sounds becoming a mass of white noise, and even the feeling of things slowing down too. But I think the most annoying part is how this can affect you physically too, no video can show that. I literally get dizzy and feel like I'm gonna pass out or vomit sometimes, or it feels like I have a backpack that keeps getting heavier, sometimes it feels like my legs are getting soft.
Yep same
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I get a twich or a lag stamp when i get too much audio or physical input, and its really weird how life can be so different from a neutrotypical person
What do neurotypical people experience?
I thought this was missing a lot, like snippets of conversation going on.
What these videos don’t capture is the multiple trains of thought going on concurrently in my head the whole time, and the way any of the stimuli can cause the story line to vector into a new direction or jump the rails to a completely different story.
The video was also missing the ambient music playing in the background and the stream of memories and fantasies associated with each song.
Those sound like what adhd is like, not specifically autism, I am no doctor though
Its an absolute nightmare. Sensory processing disorder i have it but its life so i just keep on going as best as i can. Im grateful to Autosm Together especially Julie Anglesey she is my tutor at woodwork and ive learned a lot of amazing life skills since being there. Thankyou Autism Together staff you all deserve Medals
you are?
You forgot the constant bass tones from a neighbor's or motorist's music
I live by a busy road and I hear that on a daily basis and it annoys me. Especially at night when they think they own the road.
i hate it so so much when im just trying to drive down the road & someone has their bass boosted to the max or their engine is absurdly loud. the pumping sounds in my eardrums feel horrible, & the feeling of the ground shaking is super frightening to me. i understand that there’s not a lot that can be done about a noisy engine, but i do wish that people wouldn’t play their music so loudly that people outside of the car can hear & feel the rumblings :/
Late to the party but this all resonated with me. I think my heart has thumped and it's a lorry outside the house or car door slamming
omg I thought only I heard that!
I'd say everything is pretty accurate except for the grocery store. It's not really muffled like that, more like screeching. Like how a baby screams from the back of its throat.
I experience all the conversations, and more so - the Muzak. And the smells. Any flickering of a fluorescent light.
This felt normal. Sometimes a bit more intense, because when my brain focuses on something it ignores all, though I can't control that so even if I focus in a conversation, it's not really working. The cafe scene was very realistic.
Also, it's quite normal to hear household appliances. Usually a fridge or washing machine, it can be as loud as a drill even though it's so far away. Or just a light buzz from the lights.
Yep.
And every car outside, despite the double pane glass. Friends have said for 18 years they don’t hear the road and I thought they were kidding. I can hear cars a mile away. That isn’t normal?
I hear my fridge humming and it sounds SO LOUD but my bro goes "I don't hear anything"
I’m in my 30’s and was recently diagnosed with autism with hypersensitivity and got depressed (still depressed 5 months later), because now I understand why I see the world the way I do and where all the pain and struggles comes from. The depression is a normal process, because I’ve been reflecting on my entire life, reviving and understanding the struggles since I was a child. All this years I’ve been lost my entire life, but finally I’m coming together with myself. I do wish I knew it when I was a kid. So much potential and curiosity all this years, but instead I just tried to live a normal life. My brain coming with so much problem solving ideas, designs, buildings, business, devices and weird stuff that are getting made nowadays. I feel this is a second chance for me, but I don’t know how to structure myself 😪
So I have adhd and I have a hard time filtering what comes through my senses is funny but sometimes I can feel the drops of rain like needles in my skin or the noises very fucking loud to the point of driving me crazy. Very ocd with certain things like when I am painting and it kind of hurts when my wife tells me to stop because is time to eat. I hate to stop doing what I am doing. I don't know man, whatever.
Hypersensitivity to Touch:
In your experience, rain drops feel like pins and needles. In my experience, forced air makes me feel as though my skin has been sandblasted, and the aftereffect continues to linger for a while, sometimes even leading to migraine. I can't stand having a fan blowing a constant barrage of air movement at me. It feels intensely abrasive to put my hand out the car window and "air surf." When I try it and bring my hand back inside the car, my skin is buzzing, and not in a good way.
It has been only a month since I discovered that I have Autism. The more I learn about it, the more it explains why my entire life has been "weird."
@@rebeccamay6420 that sounds like a taugh thing to deal with.
Im on the spectrum and I'm sitting here watching thinking
Everything just sounds normal
And them I realized
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same!
same 😅
Sounds double as bad as normal to me, but I guess people who watch this get the idea. Also, this is a 2 : 38 minute video. We have to put up with this kind of stress for many hours a day and compose ourselves to not stand out from the crowd and get bullied or get strange looks.
Yeah me too
Oh boy, that's me on a really good day, it's usually way worse than that. I guess I do have a genuine problem and I'm not just 'too sensitive'.
I'm impressed. The louds are loud in an the mind. People appear suspicious- ("why are you looking at me? What do u know about me!?"). Good job
This is wot it's like for me, sensory hell
omg those vehicles are just like when I was out with my bro yesterday ... motorcycles went by and was so loud I instantly covered my ears
And beeps and hums are soooo much for me! And people talking to me while there's a lot going on in the background makes it hard for me to think straight and the sound of chairs dragging is UGH
People eating and drinking takes the cake for me. I can hear everything even them swallowing. It repulses me. ESP if it’s someone who inhales their food like their never going to eat again. I’ve gotten pretty good at waiting until their done eating to eat. It doesn’t bother me in public when you’re in a loud place, but at a table…nah, I’m out. Lolz
Wew, it's so stressful, seeing this video I feel like I want to cry or run away. I guess it must be a very good sensory experience for non-autistic people.
No it's not, for many neurotypical it is exactly the same as for autistics. People that are under stress and older people detest these type of situations . I found them unbearable that's why i don't go to the movie , the mall,to the stadium, in very crowded, loud places . Train stations of very big cities, airports and airplanes and so on . Not to mention very crowded restaurants like hard rock cafe'. My ideal world will be autistic friendly even if i'm not autistic
@@giovannamoro8564 Are you saying that neurotypicals and neurodivergent people feel the world in the same way. Because if so, you are wrong. For people with Autism everything is hightened and so is more stressful.
@@shadowfoot2486 i'm not saying they're the same .i'm referring to my experience . I'm not autistic but loud ,noisy ,visually busy places cause me to experience meltdowns.
@@giovannamoro8564 Ok, thank you for clarifying
@@giovannamoro8564 I doubt it is the experience of most neurotypical people though : sensory issues aren't something you can meet only in autism, as you said many other situations or conditions can induce it (depression, burn out, other specific sensory disorders). What I mean is, I'm a student and the other students of my school doesn't seem like they want to run away after a class in a big amphitheater, or after an exam when everyone talk and ask "how did you do". They can have a conversation normally in front of a frequented crossroad, when I will just seem deaf, trying to put my left ear in front of the mouth of my interlocutor...
It’s Costco on a weekend, or any day during the summer..
This was painfull to watch, but necessary for others to understand what people with sensory issues go through. I've had headphones in my ears as soon as I could due to the soundscape around me. Now I have NC headphones and I can't go out without them. My son is autistic and complains about noise but he also hates having something pressing on his ears.
LOOP makes a noise-cancelling earplug that blocks a lot of background noise, but you can hear what you need to hear to stay safe, etc.
Every day I have to resist the temptation to fantasize about breaking noisy machines over the heads of their operators. Too bad video can't depict SMELL TRIGGERS.
I DO fantasize about it. I cant help it.
@@withgoddess8029 Have you reached the point it is any machine noise? My level since 2019. People going into trances with very loud disruptive equipment.
I'm the only one at home or at work who can pick up the scent of moldy citrus from the other end of a building. Anyone else i know can't detect it unless it's directly under their nose. The acrid air following asphalt paving trucks burns into my nose.
Wow. I keep coming back to read new comments on the vid. Isn't it gratifying to know others around us understand.
You think I like operating that noisy hell?
I have bills.
Psyco.
This is all SO familiar! It's like this YT vid was a window into my experiences every time I have to go into a busy store or something like that.
This is the first time someone told me that regular people don't hear all of this
What???
I don't have a sensory disorder. In my experience, sounds in my daily life aren't as annoying as this video makes it seem. I can tune out a lot of sounds.
Sometimes I may not even notice these sounds.
@@FootballEric926 someone should make a video on how neurotypical sees and hear things
On the thought of making a neurotypical experience video: I can imagine presenting it as a scene by scene comparison. Neurotypical view, then Autistic view --
In the Neurotypical views, all the ambient distracting noises would be muffled to near silence. The florescent ceiling lights would be barely there, perhaps less intense than white copy-paper next to off-white copy-paper. The blur of grocery shelf items would instead be only one of each item with large gaps between the different things, and checkout at the register would be a calm, almost slow pace and actually happen, rather than feeling a racing sensation of "Get Me Outta Here! NOW!" The cashier at the coffee shop would become the only clear piece of the scenery, and we'd see her eyes instead of avoiding eye contact, while everything else goes dim and blurry and nearly silent. The man on the street would have softer facial features and not even acknowledge the viewer...
@@FootballEric926 I wish I had that super power!
Oh The chaos! Oh The anxiety inducing sights and sounds! Must wear sound cancellation headphones or constant tones.
omg. Being sensory hypersensitive and watching this feels like HELL. 😱 Had to stop the sound at the coffee shop 😭 But this "simulator" is *so accurate*
I identify as a highly sensitive person (HSP), and empath, so I sense all the sounds and lights and motion as this film shows, PLUS all the odors and smells of everything, exhaust and energy of cars/trucks, PLUS temperatures, A/C blowing down my neck, , PLUS emotional and physical energy of people and animals and plants. It's not all negative, but it's all A LOT and it's easy to get overwhelmed, overstimulated and full of anxiety.
I never leave home without earplugs.
Yes
But I HATE things stuck in me ears! Ear covers to the rescue. Mine are red.
@@sjuk. I try not to throw myself on the floor crying. It has been more than 50 years since I last did that, but that is still an option😉
Smart smart. It took me way too long to do that for myself. I thought I was just too sensitive. Not until I started losing functioning did I start bringing them.
@@gigahorse1475 I keep a pair in the car so they are close if I need them.
I wanna see a night version with the BRIGHT LIGHTS...
I have autism but yeah this is pretty much what it looks like but I'm pretty used to it
Yes that is it. I have A.S. everything all trying to be processed at the same time, & people are trying to figure out what the heck is with you. I liken it to looking through a toy called a kaleidescope. There's all of the parts of reality but presented in such a manner as to cause confusion as to what you're looking at.
It's really difficult to explain what we feel and each autistic person have a different perception and that perception can change with our state of mind and tiredness, some senses are also block when we're saturated, so we act like a blind or deaf sometimes too.
A video can only convey sound and view issue, not touch, temperature, odor, balance etc
If you want a better idea :
It's a bit like if each information that your body can tell you is on a mixing table, but you can't choose what level each information come to you and some are crazily high or low.
That's why it can be hard to hear a person that speak to you, we can't choose what's matter and ignore what's not matter if the background sound, odor or light... is so high that it's too inconfortable or even hurt.
We can have a sense saturated by another one, then it's the wrong one that stop working. Like if you're become deaf cause you're blinded by light 🙄
It's affect us in various way... : I struggle to speak on a correct volume, my phone is not bright enough for others since the world is too bright for me so I tend to spend a lot of time in dark. I often watch video in mute with subtitle when I'm tired cause I overload by sounds all day. I struggle a lot to recognised peoples, and finding things I search arround me, I can't tell if I'm feeling cold or hot before it's too late, and can't do 2 things at the same time without messing up, even talking while walking is difficult so I often hurt myself a little by accident, then again, my sense of pain is too weird so I never know if it's really bad or not, it's quite tiring.
All that leads to a lot of stress, frustration and it's really exhausting.
Life feel like it's too tiring to be live sometimes so we shut down, and others time we just snap suddenly, it's a meltdown. Then we feel really bad and sorry about our behaviour afterwards.
I hurt my mother just cause she touched me when I was tired, I just react like an abuse wild animal that attack out of fear. Another time my cousin stole my sunglasses that was on my face just to play, I felt like he was trying to kill me and attack him like a tiger who want to retrieve a stolen prey.
I'm ashamed just after but too overload to explain myself or say "sorry".
I'm just in shock and feel completely lost 😢
I do not know if I am autistic, although there are indicators I might be, but this video is very relatable. However I someone learned to at least block out sounds, for the most part. But it won't always work.
It is way worse for me. I cannot go to most places. I have hypersensory perception in all eight of my senses. Anything above 60 Db is going to cause me a seizure.
I think I discovered a glitch in my autism. With one ear playing music I like from headphones and another to listen to people, I feel completely fine! Up, down, up, down, left, right, start, select!
Wow that's so interesting.
That is often something that people with ADHD do, to balance out things. I work with 2 screens or things on at the same time sometimes.
Main thing is, you controll it. Once someone would put on music you hate, things would be different, I think.
I don't have autism but my dad sais when I was a kid the dr told him that what I deal with & how I respond to people is very similar. I have epilepsy and a heterotopia in my frontal lobe. Stuff is overwhelming alot. I tend to go to the hallway at work even just for the last 15 minutes of my lunch so I can get some peace & not have to deal with as much noise.
i say this out of a life experience, "no country for autistics" not at least in my life as one
I am looking for land here in FL for Autists to enjoy nature camping without the triggers but location is a CHALLENGE. The triggers are EVERYWHERE!
@@ROTALOT keep me posted i'd love to visit your safe haven
@@TTV_TOMTISM I am serious, so I will. :)
Does anyone else with ASD find it impossible to go into the M&S food court now? After their "theme park style refit".
I cant cope in there, its so dark yet the lights are so bright!
Whoever thought and designed it gave no consideration to those with sensory issues, poor eyesight or dementia.
So this isn't normal? That's what I hear every fucking day of my life since the past 30 years. This exact high crazy pitch og constant noise
Its true. Its horrific. Thank goddess Walmart started delivering groceries a couple of years ago.
And that is without smell and touch added to the mix which are the worst for me.
Feels like bad triping
My son was recently diagnosed with autism and I was researching into it to better understand what it is and how it's experienced. I learned it's most likely genetic. Watching and learning about it gave me insight into my own life and how "normal" the experience feels for me as well. I believe I am as well and also believe that I have the unique skill set to help guide him through life since we experience life very similarly. Makes me happy that he is my son.
I disagree that autism is genetic. Being a highly sensitive person (HSP) is genetic, as it is a super finely tuned nervous system, but autism is caused by heavy metal toxicity.
@@elan007 dont think thats the end all be all. Maybe its genetic but manipulated by toxins to either increase or decrease how it affects people. I could tell my son was from infancy and he had nothing but homemade pureed fruits and veggies
That was exhausting... no wonder we don't like to go out at night. Day time living is enough to cope with...
Just looking at and hearing 0:44 already makes me feel fatigued 🤧 every damn time I go to the supermarket...
Is it possible to suffer the opposite of autism; where a person is so focused on one thing that everything else is oblivious?
"Hyperfocus" is a thing. Your (my) mind gets so keenly focused on the one stimulus (TV, movie, book, data crunching at work, art hobbies, any "special focused interest") that everything else, including the passing of time itself, are on indefinite pause or silenced. It sometimes takes a physical interruption to pull you (me) out of The Zone.
of course i feel this just very much toned down. instead i just feel irritated without knowing why. then im like oh, its a bit loud. then put on headphones lol
It is exactly how sensory overload is. I couldn't even make it to the end of the video.
I mean. What is the nerotypical way then? Thats just environmental noise. What don't others hear?
Neurotypical people can filter out this kind of stuff as background noise. They can obviously still hear everything, but it's not nearly as intense and they can filter it out. Like with the coffee shop example, a neurotypical person might be able to focus on just what the barista is saying and barely hear the stuff like the chair scraping or the machine going. Autistic people would typically hear all of it at the same volume and have trouble focusing on one thing.
Everybody in the comments also seems to have missed the visual stuff, like the flourescent lights having that bright spot. Again, of course neurotypical people are aware of how bright lights are, but it's like the brightness is stronger, sharper, more focused for people on the spectrum and it's hard to filter out the light to just be part of the environment.
It's like neurotypical people can focus on certain aspects of the environment to filter the rest out into just being part of the background, but people on the spectrum experience all the noise at the same intensity so it's more work to filter things out so it's just "regular environmental noise". It's all the noises, at once, all together, unfiltered, same volume, same intensity, same sharpness.
@@FrenkTheJoy hmmmm, thanks for that.
Its hell, I have it, I Autism AD HD OCD PDA
I think the screeching chair takes the cake
Haha, I was like "mh, the coffee shop scene could use more terribly loud clinking of plates and cutlery and more intertangled voices all barking at me at full volume synchronously, and the supermarket sound is way too muffled, must be sharper and needs more cash register beep beep beep and shopping cart rattle and screaming kids etc., but other than that a perfectly normal experience for me!" 😆
First thing i do before i leave the house or the office is putting in some high-attenuating earplugs (and sunglasses on if needed), or i sure as hell will regret it 😵💫
Everyday i feel it even more intensively
I don't think I have autism, although they suspect I do, but those sounds made me grind my teeth and are very, very uncomfortable for anyone and it hurts my head a little bit.
At what volume is this supposed to be played? I had it on a medium volume on my phone and none of those stand out as abnormal to me. How do those sound to neurotypical persons? The same but at a lower volume?
This is completely normal to me. It's really not like this for neurotypical people??
The world must be so quiet to them.
Maybe I should give myself more of a break for getting tired so easily.
This is what I am going to try and do. I'm going to try and set an appointment to get tested tomorrow. This video is my everyday life and I feel the pressure in my chest and I just want to isolate myself.
I don't have the blurry visual tunnel vision stuff, The audio stuff is like 85-90% of what i experice. But what the hell is even supposed to be exagerated in anything from 1:02 to 1:08? This is perfectly normal to me.
The scene starts as tolerable, perhaps giving the viewer a moment to recognize the scenario, then quickly escalates into Sensory Overload.
so real it's hurting
Normal person has no idea
Actually as a autistic ..the beeping and scraping sounds are the worst ..train sounds screeching sounds repetitive buzzing sounds shit bad music in shopping malls those things plus echoing screeching children in shopping malls are the worst ..birds and wind o love it..I call those sounds ugily sounds I can handle pretty sounds good music natural sounds ect
I’d rather be overstimulated out in nature than in the busy cities.
I always thought this was normal...
this isn't how it's supposed to be? 💀
I don't get it? I mean respectfully how that's different.
Hammer, meet nail.
can't watch it
1:10 the chair sounds cool as fuck though
should have (NOT FOR AUTISTIC VIEWERS) in the title because yikes
Wait ! Isnt this normal for everyone . :/
eu achei que fosse só eu que sentisse tudo isso
I hate having autism to the point I wish for death I want to die I'm tired of living I'm tired of life. And all the isolation oppression discrimination I'm tired of being unloved unwanted but saying anything doesn't matter noone cares I don't matter my life don't matter.
Please don’t give up! Can you find an autism support group in your town? I understand what you are going through. ❤
@@JTansleyandFluffyBug I've already given up on life. I'm already dead on the inside. I'm just waiting for the rest of me to die off. I have nothing to live for. Noone loves me. I get bullied By everyone. noone helps me. I don't matter my life don't matter. People are always cruel heartless evil to me and all the world is fine with how ppl treat me. Noone cares ever
Noone understand what I'm going thru. Noone cares either. Everyone is always evil heartless cruel to me. To the point I've given up. I can't even drive down a public street without neighbors bullying me. Noones ever a friend. All I get is hate and noone cares how that affects me. I hate the world I hate everyone because everyone treats me like crap for no reason
I care. I'm here for you if you need to talk. I understand what you are going through.
@@louellasnugglebunny I wish I could believe you. But it's been proven to me over and over again ppl only care enough to leave a comment saying they care and that's all the further their cares go. I tried to start an autism vlog. But then this channel clean urine stash went spreading lies about me. And in this day and age ppl will believe losers like them and not even talk to me and actually get the truth. Because anyone with a brain know autistic ppl are very honest. Unlike everyone else who lie lie lie and lie some more. So I wish I could believe you when you or anyone says they care when actually that's all a lie. Noone cares about me I don't matter to anyone noone cares how miserable IAM.
I know that this is completely missing any points of the video but,
I don't get why they had to play the same seagull clip 3 times in a row, thats just annoying.
Wait, I thought this was normal.
I liked the drink part
Ok so not everyone with autism is this way just putting that out there
Pues si
1:20
The horror of being a British autistic person and having to look at other people's teeth.
I'm so sorry people have to live with that.
😂😂😂 I was definitely uncomfortable looking at them. 😅
Oh heck 🥴
This is me
Euw!
I'm neurotypical and dislike too what i saw in this video.
So, how exactly would you experience caffe, for example? It's difficult for me to imagine what does it feel like when you don't have spd
@@Max-ww6uj i answered to you but i've made the mistake and wrote below your comment
That's the POINT, the video is mimicking what it's like for people on the spectrum, so it's SUPPOSED to be annoying to neurotypical people. It's to show neurotypical people what things are like for people on the autism spectrum.
Wait is this not normal? This is how I experience life. 1:20 HOLY MOTHER OF GOD A BRITISH PERSON! Worst jumpscare since Exorcist III. Please put a trigger warning on that next time.
😂😂😂