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Can anyone help me learn what sensory overload might sound like?

ktseahorse

Hello everyone!

I am a musician who has recently started studying and exploring composing.  Since having my two sons, both with diagnoses of autism now, I have become interested in learning about how it is to be autistic.  

As a project for integrating music with sound design for a course I'm doing, I'm working on a soundtrack for a film of stills made from a picture book story about a little boy with autism.  The most difficult bit for me to write is when he has a horrid time with sensory overload leading to a meltdown.  I really want to try and get as close as possible with sound/atonal music to conveying what that might be like, but it's hard to know if I'm along the right lines as I myself am NT.

It's very important to me that the little boy's point of view is as present in the music as his mum's, so I want to be authentic.  

Is there anyone out there who might be willing to help me get this as good as I can by listening critically to what I am doing, or giving me descriptions of what it might feel like if the images were real?

I hope it's OK to ask.  I don't know anyone who experiences sensory overload personally, or I'd ask them!

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  • Hi

    I get sensory overload a lot. More when I used to leave my home. But still if neighbours are noisy or moving around a lot. 

    Sound becomes like finger nails going down a chalk board, which increase in intensity until it becomes one solid noise.

    Every vibration from them moving around in the flat above me, is as if someone is hovering directly over my head getting closer & closer. Until it literally feels as if they are walking all over my head. Yet others who are in my flat at the time & don't have heightened senses usually claim they can't even hear any noise.

    When I'm at my computer & get sensory overload it can be like a glowing light is coming out of the computer. It quickly increases until it's as if it's going directly into my brain. That light beam becomes all that I can think about or see.

    I don't know if others can relate to this.

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  • Hi

    I get sensory overload a lot. More when I used to leave my home. But still if neighbours are noisy or moving around a lot. 

    Sound becomes like finger nails going down a chalk board, which increase in intensity until it becomes one solid noise.

    Every vibration from them moving around in the flat above me, is as if someone is hovering directly over my head getting closer & closer. Until it literally feels as if they are walking all over my head. Yet others who are in my flat at the time & don't have heightened senses usually claim they can't even hear any noise.

    When I'm at my computer & get sensory overload it can be like a glowing light is coming out of the computer. It quickly increases until it's as if it's going directly into my brain. That light beam becomes all that I can think about or see.

    I don't know if others can relate to this.

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