Video on autistic perception walking down the street

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Yeah I don't notice details at all unless I am have it on my mind to look at details. Walking around I tend to be oblivious to just about everything around me. Sounds are just like a wall of noise, indistinguishable. Visually I just don't notice much of anything, except the ground under my feet (have to watch that so I don't trip) and maybe the destination I am walking to. I can walk right past all kinds of things and not notice them at all, even if I'm actually looking for something in particular and it's obvious and it has a big sign on it, I can walk past it ten times and not see it.

Wow! Great video! I am VERY similar to the second half. I knew I had sensory issues, but I actually didn't realize a walk from that perspective was abnormal since that is what I am used to. I find it difficult much of the time.

It was reasonably accurate from my perspective; the only differences would be:

1. I don't see things as brightly.

2. More noise, that was pretty mild compared to how much I notice.

3. I notice every detail but don't spend so long looking at them.

4. There should be more people constantly getting in the person's way.

This video was a pretty realistic depiction for my walking-down-a-street experience, too. The only thing that really stood out as not quite 'matching' was the speed and frequency of head-turning to (re)look at things. If the video depiction matched my speed and frequency of such, it would probably cause disorientation/dizziness in more than half of the other video viewers because of filming 'blur'. No wonder I get so tired at times!

I get the sound effects and light sensitivity (although not as extreme as white out) but don't really notice small details as I am usually off in my head somewhere rather than paying attention to my surroundings in great detail unless I am focusing outward. Then I can notice much detail.

Actually my brain is now screaming at me just listening to all that noise on the video!

The sound bit really reasonted with me, but not the vision bit. Firstly I'm only slightly more sensitive to bright lights, so it's not like everything would be painfully bright like that. And secondly, I don't even pay as much visual attention to my surroundings as most NTs do - if I were doing a video like this for me, the screen would be watching my feet most of the time. I sometimes get lost because I haven't noticed that I walked straight past my destination. I also would be talking to myself the whole time.

Yeah, the light and noise remind me of me. Like others here have said, I always wear sunglasses in the daytime. Going without gives me a massive headache. And I've almost always got music cranked up really loud to drown out background noise, either my car stereo or my headphones if I'm walking. I'm not distracted as frequently, but it's for longer when I am. The only thing is, how do I know it's not like that for everyone else too?

This video holds true for me.

There is also this video just found it that I don't really relate to. Does anyone else?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85RqMJebNS4[/youtube]

Its a bit of an exaggeration of what I feel. I have social anxiety and GAD so when I go out I am terrified. particularly new places! I run around and quit the place in just a few mins. am irritated and scared of everything and everyone.

The sensory issues with lights and sounds I could relate to but I didn't find clothes looking really scary. Yes music is too loud. No I don't look at headless dummies and think they are evil. If someone looks at me in the store, I do tend to freeze up but it's not out of fear. "You look at everything and think they are all coming towards you!" Nope, don't relate to that.

The warpy effect gave me the impression of someone hallucinating.

I've noticed that the lighting in Target is glaring in such a way that it feels uncomfortable emotionally more than physically. Likewise with the sound of the loud ceiling fan in Wal*Mart, which I don't like to be near at all. I try to stay away from that, if at all possible, and I get away as soon as I can if I really have to be near it.

I guess that, when I was little, store clerks did sometimes creep me out a bit. Lunch ladies at school really did, too. I don't know why.

Pretty accurate, but could be more so. I agree with the others who said that at least for me (unless I'm with another person which tends to make me hurry along), there should be a lot more stopping and touching things. I do that a lot. I do it much more if I'm in an area without a lot of people as I've gotten some strange looks stopping and petting a tree or something. The brightness in the video was too bright, but I don't like bright sunny days and it bothers me a lot. I mainly avoid going out at such times if I can help it or I go somewhere with trees/shade and I wear sunglasses (sunny days still give me a headache after a while). I didn't realize this was an asperger's thing though.

The video also doesn't include the aspect of avoiding people/working your way through people in the sidewalk. If I actually have to get somewhere or there are people around and I don't want to examine the environment (because it's not pleasant/too many people, I prefer to linger in natural settings) then I walk fairly fast and always seem to be narrowly avoiding collisions.

I used to get in trouble a lot as a kid for being sent somewhere and stopping and getting distracted along the way (sometimes for an hour or more...) when I was supposed to be doing something else. There were lots of blowups about that...

Now I have a small kid to run after when I'm out "by myself" so I am not able to really stop and enjoy walks as much as I have to keep up with him and keep watching him its very distracting.

That video is kinda' like how a neighbor once described me walking down the street past her house - looking around at the cracks in the sidewalks; the clouds and the planes flying overhead on their way to land at the airport 7 miles from where I live; cars going by, etc...etc...etc...

My mother told me the neighbor said that and I remember feeling weird because of it. Then again, I've always been that way! After that, though, I was self-conscious about what I'm doing while I'm walking.

This is a habit I have, too - especially when I'm doing my exercise walk on my lunch break!

I'm actually curious to know (from NT readers) if the NT part of the video is accurate and they don't do the things in the latter part. They don't look around at things as they walk? I wouldn't have guessed there was that much difference in this area really

I showed the video from post 1 to a very few non-autistic people (partner and therapists) and they can relate to the first part, but are very surprised about the second part, because they say that they do not perceive like that.