What helps your overloads?

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Just had to deal with the neighbor playing her music so loud it was setting me off in my own apartment - she does this on a regular basis, and the other quiet neighbors just moved so who knows what he'll is going to be moving in there too.

I was able to put earplugs in and managed to block the noise, and that stopped the inner twisty/crawlies this kind of stuff does to my insides and nerves.

What challenges do you come across and what things help you deal with them?

Well this is probably not a good way to handle things but my worst problem is interactions with family (who I live with) getting too difficult for me to handle, I respond by getting aggressive so they leave me alone or withdrawing from the situation if I can. Terrible, I know, but I havnt found anything more effective. Perhaps I should educate them on what communication is like for me, but I have no idea how to go about this.

Sensory issues can be problematic but are eased with sunglasses and calming music through headphones. Sometimes getting out of the situation is the only solution.

Some broad questions can also overwhelm me and rapidly send me into shutdown (I cant control the avalanche of pictures and concepts that overwhelm my brains processing capacity), the only effective way I have found of dealing with this is to completely forget everything I was trying to process and telling the person I cant answer it. However I find dealing with this difficult and when I lose my ability to think verbally it becomes incredibly difficult to talk and thus difficult to explain that I cannot answer thier perfectly resonable question.

I have the same issue - but with people not answering my questions. My brain starts to process all the possibilities and outcomes and I go into shut down or I breakdown in a fit. I find a quiet room, stimming and running my hand over some kind of texture ( i.e. a rough carpet, a fuzzy teddy, or a silk scarf ) while I talk myself out of the avalanche of thought to help. Music just confuses my thought process more since I try to analyze the notes and the combination of sounds - so I do not do it.

This doesn't happen all the time, usually when I am overly concerned about something and I ask for clarification that I do not get.