I know all 3 of us, guys and gal, cannot take large stores with serious flourescent light and yes it is partly the noise/air quality from those lights, and we also don't do well in Madison Square Garden events with all that amplification --- what IS all that blasting and pain necessary for? Making people think they are getting more for those high prices?
I find all your thoughts interesting. I know a day out in our too much mechanized noisy flourescent world is exhausting beyond belief for both my guys, whatever the over-stimuli. I can handle it all better, but a few days of peace and quiet to recover helps!!!
This high pitched noise issue is a big one for my husband, the undiagnosed although self-admitted Aspie. About three years ago he had a lightbulb moment when he realized that I couldn't hear the same buzzing/humming noise that is constantly in his head. Because of it, he has to have background noise to fall asleep. We've had to compromise on this one more than a couple of times.
I know that Claire often covers her ears because of noises the rest of us can't ear. I usually assume it's the lights...but perhaps she's earing the same thing her daddy ears? Who knows. It's a mystery...but one we deal with daily.
There are certain sounds that simply drive Siobhan NUTS. She takes them as a personal insult. They include everyday things like silverware on plates, silverware on stainless steel, and the vacuum cleaner.
My triggers are electronic whine and (oddly) tearing paper. Newspaper and brown paper are the worst. I remember having to relinquish my seat on the LIRR wile pregnant because I was sitting too close to a coupon tearer.
1) I consider myself to have at least some ASD qualities, but I've never been DXed. When I was a child I remember having a horrible "scene" with my parents because they had commendeered one of my closets as a place to keep a TV. My father had put a hole in the wall and a shelf, so that the TV looked built-in in a room that shared a wall with mine. I remember arguing that the TV makes a buzz that I hated. My parents told me that there was no such noise and that I was just trying to aggrevate them, as usual. I had to sleep with several pillows on my head when that TV was on.
2) My little ASD boy has always had sensory issues with bath, and still I can only get him in the tub when all ducks are in a row, right on a schedule directly from dinner, etc. But only a couple of days (weeks?) ago did I "get" that one of the things he does not like is the sound of the water filling the tub, especially when I use my fingers to increase the pressure to make bubbles. (The big hint was when I started making bubbles and he said, "I don't like that noise," I am so thankful for his verbal skills.) Duh! No wonder he seems so scitzo about bubbles--seems to love them (as long as they are white and not scented) but usually chooses not to have them.
Hey LR,
I know all 3 of us, guys and gal, cannot take large stores with serious flourescent light and yes it is partly the noise/air quality from those lights, and we also don't do well in Madison Square Garden events with all that amplification --- what IS all that blasting and pain necessary for? Making people think they are getting more for those high prices?
I find all your thoughts interesting. I know a day out in our too much mechanized noisy flourescent world is exhausting beyond belief for both my guys, whatever the over-stimuli. I can handle it all better, but a few days of peace and quiet to recover helps!!!
Sara
This high pitched noise issue is a big one for my husband, the undiagnosed although self-admitted Aspie. About three years ago he had a lightbulb moment when he realized that I couldn't hear the same buzzing/humming noise that is constantly in his head. Because of it, he has to have background noise to fall asleep. We've had to compromise on this one more than a couple of times.
I know that Claire often covers her ears because of noises the rest of us can't ear. I usually assume it's the lights...but perhaps she's earing the same thing her daddy ears? Who knows. It's a mystery...but one we deal with daily.
Amy
LR,
Good points.
There are certain sounds that simply drive Siobhan NUTS. She takes them as a personal insult. They include everyday things like silverware on plates, silverware on stainless steel, and the vacuum cleaner.
My triggers are electronic whine and (oddly) tearing paper. Newspaper and brown paper are the worst. I remember having to relinquish my seat on the LIRR wile pregnant because I was sitting too close to a coupon tearer.
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LR,
My AS DH can't fall asleep without either TV on or the gaming computer set to idle with a game on (playing background music,
Well, I can certainly relate to the electronics pitchy noise.
I have two loosely related comments:
1) I consider myself to have at least some ASD qualities, but I've never been DXed. When I was a child I remember having a horrible "scene" with my parents because they had commendeered one of my closets as a place to keep a TV. My father had put a hole in the wall and a shelf, so that the TV looked built-in in a room that shared a wall with mine. I remember arguing that the TV makes a buzz that I hated. My parents told me that there was no such noise and that I was just trying to aggrevate them, as usual. I had to sleep with several pillows on my head when that TV was on.
2) My little ASD boy has always had sensory issues with bath, and still I can only get him in the tub when all ducks are in a row, right on a schedule directly from dinner, etc. But only a couple of days (weeks?) ago did I "get" that one of the things he does not like is the sound of the water filling the tub, especially when I use my fingers to increase the pressure to make bubbles. (The big hint was when I started making bubbles and he said, "I don't like that noise," I am so thankful for his verbal skills.) Duh! No wonder he seems so scitzo about bubbles--seems to love them (as long as they are white and not scented) but usually chooses not to have them.
-Sidney
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Edited 2/19/2008 1:20 pm ET by littleroses
That would totally explain my dog's PDD/NOS behavior.