Autism Video Game Simulator

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Aspies do NOT hear sound louder, nor do they see images as blurred or static (assuming no other defect), the sensory issues are psychological, they do not manifest as what is shown.

You're yet to give poof that any of this is true.

Many Aspies do hear sounds louder. It's been proven by many professionals. That's how we're able to hear things that others can't (even when these other people are trying to hear it).

We don't see blurred or static? Then explain why so many people on this forum do, but so few non-autistics do this.

I wish they were psychological, then they could be easily cured. Where are you even getting this information from? Are you saying these things to try and upset us or something?

Umm..... it kinda HAS to exaggerate it. That's kind of the whole point. If it did NOT exaggerate it, NT people would not get "overwhelmed" at all, which is what the game is trying to do. It's not meant to be EXACTLY accurate to what EXACTLY happens for those on the spectrum (which is impossible anyway, since there's so many differences between people and their "symptoms"). What it's meant to do is produce a situation that causes NTs discomfort, and in order to actually produce that effect, it needs to go about it in specific ways, or it simply wont work, since NTs dont normally get discomfort from the many things that cause it in those that are on the spectrum.

Not to mention, it also needs to make sense on the type of medium it is using, in this case a game on a PC, being shown/heard through the screen and speakers.


And it works, too. When the game originally appeared, many people tried it, and came away from it saying things like "yeah.... that was pretty disturbing, I had no idea that it could be that bad" and lines like that. It was interesting to see some of the responses to the game.

No I am not trying to make people upset. I know many people on the spectrum have issue with sensory processing issue, but not processing information correctly is not the same as your eyes not seeing it correctly. I have yet to see any poof of people on the spectrum practically going blind like this person in the simulator was.

I have also yet to see a single credible study showing people on the spectrum can hear any better than the average person, only that many are more easily bother by sounds that other people can hear as well.

I my self am on the spectrum (Aspergers), and I understand it the simulator is trying to create a situation were images and sounds become too much, to approximate what someone on the spectrum experiences in an overload, I just do not feel it is accurate.