Sensory Overload

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Hello, I'm not sure entirely if what I felt was sensory overload. I didn't feel bad or hurt or anything just tired and stressed. Okay I guess I'll start from the beginning. I went to a meeting yesterday briefly with a nice lady from ORS. There was a lot of information to absorb. Before that I was working on a graduation project where I made a lot of phone calls. Then I went to my internship at the daycare I usually go to. It was the every other Thursday where the room was crowded. 20 people including myself and a bunch of wheel chairs and equipment. I'm not by any means claustrophobic but I have very mild asperger's syndrome. I don't generally have meltdowns although I have under extreme stress. There was just a lot of social interacting and one of the children was screaming. This made the last 10 minutes seem like an hour. My senses didn't hurt or anything like that from it I was just really tired after. I felt almost like I wanted to lay in a quiet room for awhile by myself and just take deep breaths with my eyes closed. When I got home I had to explain the meeting with the lady from ORS and I never did get that quiet time but I did take a nice hot shower and some deep breaths to relax. Was this sensory overload or??? Would you call it something else.? Any other similar experiences?

Thats what i have and what i call it.

When i mind gets overloaded everything just goes to hell literally. When energy has run out, only thing that helps for me is to go home go to bed, then my brain can recharge and sort out.

Its like when energy runs out, my brain looses the ability to sort information and just randomly starts throwing it on the floor.

Normal people seem to have this ability, from what ive been told, to not hear when other people talk. if im in a room with 20 people that talk, i hear all 20 at once, it becomes one big mess, i cant just single one person im talking to me if the other 19 is talking in that room. I dont have that ability.

One of the reasons i get major overload and hate being around many people especially inside.

For me it never got better, infact it only gets worse as i get older, because i dont seem to have the mental unlimited energy as a kid. Ive tried all the time ive been working a job for many years, for me i will never get better at being around other people. my brain cant handle the sensor overload.

Im not sure how normal people deal with it. Either they have a lot of mental energy or they have ability to block stuff out or something.

Its pretty scary when it happens at your brain just completely shuts down. i actually seem to recall an episode just now from when i was a kid, where my mother talked about a birthday party that become so much, i just sad and hammered by head into a wall. not fun at all.

People dont quite understand how much that effects your life, and why people try and avoid such overload at all costs.