Nailed it. Short video on sensory overload, worth watching.

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I had to close it halfway through. It was too much.

If the goal was to highlight what it feels like; mission accomplished.

Yeah, I forced myself to watch the whole thing and endure it. Even now, an hour later, I'm still a little stressed out and tensed up... skin feels tingly too >.<

I get that they needed to use cartoons for this, some of the aspects of the sensory overload they are trying to highlight would have been prohibitively expensive to use real lifelike video with CG to illustrate.

This video is good too, quite close to what I experience when walking down the street. I laughed when the distraction part came up - is this not normal?

I've only realised in the past few months that I experience the world so differently. Being sensitive is good and bad. HD vision? Good! Quiet office? WTF are you talking about?!

This is my experiance me as well.

Yes, that video was posted before and as I remember it had a lot of positive responses then, too. I certainly found it very interesting.



No, it's really not. Sorry. Most people (myself included) do not notice every drain and cigarette butt on the ground. Now, I can of course notice that stuff if I'm looking for it, but that would be a conscious choice.

Interesting... does anyone have any good information on sensory overload and what causes it? I've had a bit of a search but I can't find anything concrete.

I can. Although some noises that are loud enough to drown out others, the others are still there. They may not register consciously until the louder noises are either reduced or stop, but my subconscious registers all of them. I'm sure everyone with normal hearing can hear them all, but is't not the hearing of them that counts. It's the ability to filter through all of them, even if some of them aren't consciously obvious, and focus only on those that really matter at the moment. So much can be going on it's like trying to find that "needle in a haystack" among all the other noises around us. There's can be so much noise, and even other sensory crap going on, that a normal person can filter through by ignoring most of them, that I sometimes can't no matter how hard I try.

At home, and because I'm the adult in the house, I can control most of the sensory input. Out in a city, I can't. At home I just shut things off, make the kids take whatever noisy toys they're using into another room, and limit the amount of crap I have to filter. Out in the world, I can't do that, so the only option I have when it gets overwhelming is to remove myself from the environment. This kind of thing is definitely one of the primary reasons so many of us choose to isolate ourselves.

Yeah..... they do get more jumbly in real life.

I can't say I've ever experienced the world like that before, but it is very interesting.

I didn't notice it wasn't jumbly because it was jumbly for me when I watched it. It is really mild overload that its showing though, not a bad one.

Wow, I am an Aspie and I never experienced anything like this. When I walk around outside I usually hear nothing. Unless I am actively trying to hear something, usually I don't , unless it is very loud and unexpected.