Different sensory experiences

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I've just been sent this link on different sensory experiences in autism. It's difficult to examine these sorts of ideas within yourself but at the moment I'm still having trouble getting past the apparent contradiction between ‘gestalt perception’ and 'fragmented perception'...

There are a few interesting aspects to the article and I found in interesting how she related problems people have with being autistic to physical comparisons like trying to walk with broken legs and having things thrown at you. I find I have to do this with people who don't seem to understand why I should be having a problem with something environmental, especially at work. I suppose this bridges the gap somewhat between how different people are experiencing the same circumstances.

Do other people here relate to what's in the article? Interested to hear.

url is http://www.autismtoday.com/articles/dif ... iences.htm

Yes. Everything is merely two-dimensional until intellectually given depth (relevance), and no depth is possible apart from an imposed context.

I occasionally (not frequently) get fragmentation, although I think I had more of it when I was younger. Now it seems to happen more with photographs, and not consistently.

I do the mono channel thing. When I'm in conversations I can remember what was discussed and said but I sometimes can't remember what I saw during the conversation.

I can still be shut down by sensory overload, and have been multiple times in the past month. This was a major reason I started investigating whether I am autistic again.

I am often sensitive to light (photophobic) to the point of actually wearing sunglasses in my own bedroom. I always wear them outside and anywhere lit by fluorescent lights.

I can't filter sounds very well, but I can filter vision.

I get delayed processing a lot, including the whole respond immediately on autopilot.

I was diagnosed as nearsighted in the first grade, but I stopped wearing glasses by the third grade. I am not sure what happened there, and I've had fairly acute vision both near and far for my entire life since.

Sometimes when someone is talking near me, all I hear is gibberish.

Sometimes I zone out on the sound of someone's voice and don't hear words at all. They don't sound like gibberish, just pure sound.