Jellybean wrote:
It is okay now. I just threatened to sue them under the disability discrimination act! I don't know how clear I was with my original message (I forgot to re-read it) but I have a strange condition along with the usual sensory annoyances of having AS, called vestibular hyperacusis. This means that when I hear noise from MP3 players, I literally pass out and have fits. The hyperacusis part means that I can hear the MP3 players EVEN if they are turned right down. I have asked in the past for people to turn them down, but they are either abusive or just turn them right up again the second my back is turned. The head of art and design went mad when I told him that the rule was being ignored and he is now supervising lessons to see the problem for hiself. The way I see it, I didn't choose to have my condition, but people CAN choose to listen to music.
Seriously though, I am becoming suicidal over the stress this is causing me.
Well, I am allergic to smoke. Severely. How is this similar? Smoking (in outdoor public places) is legal, and will (I assume) never be completely illegal. Do you know what happens if I breathe just a *little* bit of smoke? I end up in an ambulance. There have been times I've had attacks so violent I've coughed up blood. But I'm not going to threaten to sue my city to ban all smoking to make this place more comfortable for me, I take matters in to my own hands and carry a mask with me to put on in public places (Like bus stops) where someone may light up. Why not bring your own player and tune the others out? I have social anxiety, and sometimes sitting with my attention focused on my music is the only way I can keep my brain from going in to panic-mode...I take mine everywhere...the bus, stores, appointments...and I wouldn't be able to go out in public without it. So could you for a minute consider that an MP3 player might just be a coping device used by someone disabled in another way?
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03 Nov 2007, 4:25 pm
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