What Asperger’s Is Like

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Found this interesting video and wanted to share and get your thoughts: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/ ... nt-page-1/

I can sympathize with it to a degree. Only a few times are things THAT bad, but things like tapping REALLY annoy me.

I'm not usually in an environment like that long enough for THAT to happen, but I can sympathize. That made me want to scream right there.

This is exactly what it was like for me (not the video part, but the article). I was convinced my mother was burning me in the bath. I saw little curls of steam on the surface of the water and my skin would get bright pink and I was pretty sure I saw steam coming off my skin in the tub too. I really thought she was burning me. She told me that it was only warm, stick her hand in the water, and ask why was I making such a big deal. She did this while washing my hair in the sink too. I thought she was trying to scald me. She would reluctantly have to keep adjusting the temperature down and I wasn't happy until I thought it was cool/room temperature. Now, oddly enough, I like to scald myself in the shower. Raise up the temperature little by little, like a frog in a pot, until it gets so hot that my whole body tingles in a big shudder which is in a way even more pleasurable than an orgasm. I don't stay in like that because intellectually I know I can really hurt myself.

I don't interpret mixed noise like that when I'm out in those sorts of places. In fact I automatically filter out the sound of people walking and talking in the street, so the next time I'm out in the busy town I'm going to stop and listen out.

I get more irritated by sudden noises, like perhaps somebody throwing heavy things into the back of a truck or a lorry making a loud bang, or a driver tooting the car horn or whatever, things like that annoy me and make me jump. Other noises like babies screaming also agitate me to hell, but they do most people, just most have better tolerance of that kind of noise than I do, although they still could probably hear it the same as I do.

The sounds I hear aren't any louder than how anybody else hears it. I just get more distracted or bothered by it.

Very accurate for me except the fluorescents. For me it is more like everything is vibrating slightly not flashing.

I can explain it really simply for you.

Imagine one day you wake up and you're completely blind, you can no longer see at all, you have to rely on other senses in order to get around. Initially you're clunky and awkward, can't really do anything without help. After awhile you start to get the hang of things but you notice since your senses have gotten more tuned you're also more easily hurt by things like loud noises, afraid of being touched because you can't see people and don't know who they are for a split second, and smells can have various effects on you. Then one day you get surgery on your eyes with a laser and it is a success! But now you can see the world around you except people's faces. People are confused by you when you don't empathize with them (not being able to tell what they're feeling), people might feel off-put by your stance because you can't reflect naturally how they're feeling to let them know you're interested in what they have to say and stuff like that. So you forget about people, you find a goal that you can persue on your own and you go after that, you attain it no matter what relentlessly and along the way pick up a few pets to keep you company who love you no matter what you do!

Welcome to the life of an aspie.

It's quite accurate. There's another thread about this simulation but I'm too lazy to look for it.

This sounds weird to say, since it's never happened before, but that video caused me to meltdown while watching it, as it was seriously stressful and filled with everything I hate. I need to show that to my mum and go "this is why I hate towns and cities. This." Not that she'd ever understand. I don't wanna watch it again, it's too similar to what I feel. Very accurate. Too accurate for me to like..

God, when I think about all the years when I didn't know what the f*** that was. That was hard to watch (and listen to). At one point I yelled at the screen, "BLOW! Just blow! And get it over with. Get out out."

Uh, I don't know if you can modify the title of this post, but if you can you might want to put a trigger warning on it. I feel like crap now. Fricken spiral.

I never had that many auditory issues. Mine were mostly on my skin (temperature, pressure, textures, other sensations) and eyes (visual input). I would get too much visual stimulation and I could not make sense of it all. My brain would get fried from too much visual action going on, all those details in motion crashing together. I had no visual filter. This is also partly why I used to walk staring at the ground (aside from not wanting people to look at me), because I could shut out some of the visual stimuli.

The only times I got really mad about noise was when I was trying to read, study or sleep. Then I would get VERY mad because I'd hear Every.Little.Thing. on a megaphone.

The title should read "What SOME Asperger's Is Like"