Published on 12, July, 2020
Iv decided to do a forum on my wildlife holidays where I can tell you about my holiday rather than just sending pictures
cause iv been on lots of them this year rather than only sending photos. also proper trips il tell you about and add photos to go with it on this post aswell. cause it will be easyer and better for me but is also for holidays cause im going on lots of holidays this year and it deserves its own thread in this sense.
my first holiday I went on this year was Wales. I went to Snowdonia near the national park
we saw a lamma and a pony
with the view we got from the cottage we stayed in was of the sea
Jackdaws perched on the buildings when we watched tv we went for a walk and I got great pictures of the moutains
you could see them on the beach outline at the beach the waves I saw a literally called gray heron fly past
the waves crashed against the rocks and became fully submerged until they broke and forced its way over. my long lens saved my life by getting me up close enough to photograph the waders and I saw Great crested grebes.
back at the cottage herring gulls at Jackdaws
the next day we went to the waterfalls I saw yellow gorse.
the water level was high but not flooded. it was a adventure and the gorse made it look colourful
it was massive then we went down the mountain the next day we went to the sea again and I saw a cormerent. there was lots of bladder wrack which is a type of seaweed.
seaweed are actualy a type of algae. some can surve out the water for a certain period of time. others dont survive as well it depends on the type cause theres different types of seaweed.
this one is normaly mistake for seaweed but is actualy a type of animal instead
in July
im very used to wildlife watching in the uk and while I have been to menorca I havnt wildlife watched there cause I didnt have an interest in Wildlife then so this was my first time wildlife watching in a different country.
I allways have to wear ear defenders when i go to the air port but they had disability asistance. I had to improvise cause the person that supports me that went with me hasnt gone on holiday with me before and didnt know what to say or do with my sensory challanges at the airport. the person that was with me said she thinks il be fine but I knew cause of my autism cant deal with crowds so I said I have autism and I dont like crowds so would it be ok to go where its less busy or quiter and so she took me through. there was a point where we wernt sure if I had to take my ear defenders off at the part where you have to walk through and them see if you got metal on you so I asked the lady there if I could keep them on and she went off to ask the person behind the thing you have to walk through. I was very anxious at this point. it was time to put our items on the coveyerbelt and walk through the metal thing. The person with me for the holiday and me still didnt know so I was panicing inside and i was told to take them off by the person taking me which i was reluctant to do but the plaine lady came over and thumbed up us saying not to take them off and that i can keep them on and we went through. the flight was delayed by an hour. but it was no ones fault cause they had to help somone who couldnt walk onto the plane. so we walked and stopped every 5 minutes so people were joking about that and inpatient at the same time. eventually we got on though at last. I filmed the take off and we went over the bay of biscay on the way to Tenerife
when landing I saw mount tede from above the clouds.
the next day I saw a canarian chiffchaff
and I saw a Spanish sparrow for the first time. they were breeding at the hotel.
but one of my biggest highlights was snorkeling for the very first time
and the dolphins which i got to see for the very first time
and mount tede a active volcano with many species only found on that mountain I saw crystal on a rock
that was the last day. the next day we went on a trip but when it came to packing bags for the trip. I put my bag with the plastic bag on it ontop of my suitcase then gave it to her with the plastic bag on it but took it off and thought that she was going to put the bag in cause it didnt only have my stuff in the bag and as far as I knew the plastic bag was in the boot but at some point in the journey I wondered where the bag was and thought it might be in the boot cause i couldnt see it in the back. we checked the boot and it wasnt there.
my ear defenders got left behind which was problomatic cause the person with me wasnt willing to go back and get the ear defenders and soon we had to go to the air port. I was highly anxious and I found it diffucult getting her to understand the why it is important enough that we do have to go back anf get them we bought some silenceing headphones as an emergancy cause otherwise I wouldnt of been able to get on the plane. we went through disability asisstance. the plane was delayed by a couple of hours and we wernt able to get on until midnight. a teenager had a go in a wheelchair and a little boy was going up and down a slope behind me which i found acted as visual stimulation and made my anxiety worse. it isnt thetre fault its just cause im autistic but thanfuly things did cam down and at 12 o'clock we lined up and got on the plane and came back to the uk by 4 or 5 oclock in the morning.
the update is that the Social worker has messaged Mum and Mum let me know what she said she
asked could you ask him to let me know exactly why he is unhappy at the care home, why he wants to move to alternative acommodation and what he hopes to achieve with the move?
please can he and you, let me have any responses by Monday 21st October and we can then exsplore further
so then Mum said you have to produce the list and I will send it to her before Monday
so I got until Monday and Mum is going to send it to her before Monday
OK.
I hope that this is good for you. I know that you have thought about it all a lot already.
That's nearly a week. Will you be ok doing this? If you want some help to get your thoughts into bullet points, then I can try.
It was nice that the moderators emailed you.
I wondered weather you or or others might be interested in hearing more about my exsperiance with my noise sensitivaty that is part of my autism and how it afects me in my day to day life other than the ways iv already described so iv added this seperatly rather than adding it on the other post
im very very in tune to sound around me to the point I can hear things most people cant and hear things at very low frequesys. the low frequencys are (over) heightened to the point of over sensitivaty also called hypersensitivaty. it afects your normal every day life and so can cause sensory overload. noise from everyday things are at frequencys louder to the point it can afect you and others which is why of course people tell me un helpful things in fustration yes but its not normal amoung othets which iv literaly been told by dad and amoung other people before for instance. for me with mine it also means i can feell vibration from sounds go right through my body or other objects. any sounds in every day life so for example even peoples voices and the dogs barking i have had interactions where i feel the vibration of there voice go right through me when they speak in a certain tone and a certain pitches even though they havnt spoken loudly as such.
sometimes people find it unusal but its cause I hear things that are lower frequencys at higher frequencys which is why even lloud sounds can be 20 times louder than for someone without hypersenitive hearing and why at the same time im able to hear sound frequences lower than most people can ususaly hear well.
my brain also procesess words continuously when used in my envirement sometimes voice can be more of a distraction than words or sometimes words can be more distraction and sometimes both just as equaly
That's really interesting. Another person here can hear very low frequencies. I think you feel low frequencies in your body, because of how sound works (air pressure). My theory is that we find it hard to filter out sounds. It's not that other non-autistic people don't hear them, but they just don't notice them. Sometimes I feel lucky, other times I don't and don't like it.