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!
