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Earlyer today some of my friends took me to NYC. My fiends are all seniors in high school but I am just a freshman. They wanted to show m nintendoworld so we went in and the moment we got off the train I felt a burst of smells. Ciggarrets, marijuana, cigars, trash. I just started to get irratated yelling at everyone, being grumpy, telling them I hated them and wished I were dead, wished they were dead. Then we got into the crowds... I didn't think there would be many people at NYC but everywhere I looked there were people. They kept touching me rubbing up on me breathing on me. I got really jumpy. Then there was all the noise the People talking the cars horns the everything. We got to nintendoworld at last and I settled down inside. But then we had to leave, with a Emboar in my arm we started to go outside. My friends wanted to see more things but I just needed to leave. After a while I had a meltdown and my friends kept saying stuff like don't act like a baby. What is wrong with me why do I have to be so sensitive to everything.

Geez, I moved to a small town for that very reason! I guess that was your first experience in a big city.

You didn't get mugged so you did very well.

I you only knew how to cope. When I used to to work in NYC I used the following techniques for copping. Ear buds playing music to drowned out most of the noise and a scented rag tucked in to my shirt. That covers sound and smell that leaves you dealing with sight and contact.

I love NYC. just not in hottest part of the summer. in the winter, the coldness freezes a bunch of things before they get to you and since people are wearing more clothes, if they bump into you or rub against you it isn't as disgusting. but that's just my experience.

I have only gone a few times even though I went to college in Poughkeepsie (right outside of NYC). I had a hard time with it. ESPECIALLY the subway. Ugh. But if I was able to suck it up and put up with it, it was usually worth it. Usually, not always. The very last time I went my car was broken into, even though it was parked right outside a police station. That was nice.

As a aspie that lives in NYC the noise doesn't really bother me, most times, but the people? Yea, since majority of the people I come across in public must make a comment about me, I hate it!

Love the city but hate the people, I would'nt mind them though if they just let me live my life in peace.

The only time the noise bothers when I when I walk on a Walkway that's alongside a Highway... that noise bothers me.

It depends where you go and when. Nintendo World is in Rockefeller Center, one of the noisest and most crowded places you could have gone.

Anyone visiting NYC who is prone to sensory overload, I'd suggest steering clear of the area south of Central Park and north of Penn Station (Times Square, Broadway, Rockefeller Center.) Central Park itself is very peaceful, and the museums along side it are great places to visit. South of midtown isn't bad either. The village area, near NYU, has lots of great places to go at night, and they're usually not very crowded.

And Shrox... It's not like that anymore. Crime really hasn't been a problem here for over a decade. Even what used to be the worst areas are perfectly safe to visit these days.

That experience sounds pretty terrible. My own "big city" is becoming more and more like you describe. Much to my eternal disappointment.