madbutnotmad wrote:
Hello Weirdness.
I am here to try and help.
I don't think you really explained yourself very well when you started this post.
It reads basically like this.... these people I hate, who i think are morons, so i threw bottles at them...
Doesn't sound good on your part.
If you perhaps explained a little a bit first about how Autism Spectrum Disorder affects you, (and please feel free to copy what i have written if you need to explain yourself to anyone in authority, such as security guards, law enforcement agents / police, lawyers, judges, medical staff...
Anyway, please explain you suffer from misophonia (low tolerance to auditory sensory information in combination with inability to filter out auditory information which causes you extreme distress if you are in a "busy" auditory environment where there are more than one auditory sensory sound source, but also you have a sensitivity to certain auditory stimuli, for example, motorcycle noise) which is a protected characteristic of the recognised neurological developmental disorder and disability that you suffer from which of course is called Autism Spectrum Disorder.
So, various circumstances where you are exposed to auditory sensory information in various environments inevitably "triggers" adverse and unavoidable behavioural effects in you which are unavoidable due to being caused by the abnormal neurological presentation found in your Autistic brain.
People with this dynamic or paradigm of symptoms make up the substantial number among people with a formal diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder, so are well known of by specialist clinical psychologists who specialise in this area, with substantial research papers documenting this exact problem.
In short, if you are exposed to certain "triggers", on a bad day, these triggers will cause you to have what are known as Autism Spectrum Disorder Sensory Overload "meltdowns", which can result in causes you to exhibit what looks like tantrum or antisocial behaviour, which once triggered, you have very little control over until the "meltdown" has dissipated. This meltdown phenomena can cause you to exhibit what looks like antisocial behaviour, but as mentioned previously, it is not, but instead a hard to avoid neurological reaction that causes what looks like tantrum like behaviour.
The difference between meltdowns and tantrums however needs to be established as it is significant.
Tantrums are antisocial behaviours that are acted out out of choice, often, when children want attention.
ASD Sensory Overload Meltdowns however, although can look identical to a tantrum to the onlooker,
are in fact completely different, and are involuntary neurological reactions caused by circumstances / conditions which usually include various sensory triggers.
From the uneducated outsiders perspective, both behaviour exhibited may appear to be the same in nature.
But the cause is different, with one being a chosen behaviour, and the other being a behaviour triggered by dysfunctional neurology / brain damage when combined with certain conditions or circumstances.
That all said and done, I recommend that you try your best to avoid throwing bottles, as people really do get murdered, and this is something I have seen over the years at big music festivals. I believe a number of rockstar's over the years have been murdered by a bottle being thrown at their head while they are performing.
Yes. please try your best not to throw bottles, as no one will look favourably towards you even though you suffer from an incurable disorder that causes meltdowns.
If you can, try and avoid your triggers.
Hope what i have written helps.
BTW I also suffer from acute auditory hypersensitivity, with low tolerance to volume, hypersensitivity to certain frequencies, as well as having an inability to filter out auditory stimuli when placed in a "busy" auditory environment.
I know, it sucks, especially as no one seems to care and very few people understand, especially in housing and other areas of essential life. That is a big part as to why we are disabled and not normal and I guess that is why many of us are eligible for disability benefit.
Hopefully the knowledge base will get better as time goes on and people will make more allowances or at least give us quality purpose built housing which will at least give us a sanctuary from noise.
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Very thorough information above...Thank you...This reminded me about the first gift i gave my beloved Aspie during our courtship...It was a set of ear caps, the orange kind...I am very observant...And i had noticed that each time my van would make a excruciating noise, my beloved Aspie would cringe...At present-time, he is not as sensitive to noises as he was back then...Something that i try to help him avoid...
05 Jan 2021, 7:11 pm
