Yeah, it’s awful. Normal people have absolutely no frame of reference for what the experience of these symptoms is like. No matter how good you are with metaphors many of them will never “get” it.
For me, it’s depression and people saying “just force yourself to x”. No real understanding of what’s going on, so they think you’re just not trying hard enough.
I am autistic and get very stressed in noisy environments. I just kinda shut down after a while and can’t really talk anymore.
My dad keeps saying that I should expose myself to more noisy environments as “therapy”. I try to tell him that’s like telling someone who can’t walk because they’re paralyzed from the waist down to just keep trying.
He still thinks it’ll be fine if I just “learn to ignore the noise”.
Yeah, it’s awful. Normal people have absolutely no frame of reference for what the experience of these symptoms is like. No matter how good you are with metaphors many of them will never “get” it.
For me, it’s depression and people saying “just force yourself to x”. No real understanding of what’s going on, so they think you’re just not trying hard enough.
I am autistic and get very stressed in noisy environments. I just kinda shut down after a while and can’t really talk anymore.
My dad keeps saying that I should expose myself to more noisy environments as “therapy”. I try to tell him that’s like telling someone who can’t walk because they’re paralyzed from the waist down to just keep trying.
He still thinks it’ll be fine if I just “learn to ignore the noise”.
I’m sorry, comrade. It sucks when people just will not listen to you when you tell them what’s happening.
Earplugs. Loop or Earasers. Fucking godsend.