Hearing every noise

Glad the interpretation proved useful to you.

Background noise in pubs etc is something that ought to be easily found in books on autistic spectrum, but is very much lacking. That might be down to the professionals (and NAS) having a fixation with the triad, and addressing sensory issues as a poor second. However it doesn't seem unique to people on the spectrum. Not have I been able to find out if many people on the spectrum experience this.

I cannot do collective socialising. I don't avoid it altogether, but my efforts to indulge in it are usually fraught. If lots of other people around me are talking, or there is other complex background noise, I don't even hear meaningful English - it sounds foreign. I have to guess my way through conversations and do a lot of nodding to imply I follow.

It also seems to affect how I speak. I seem to lose coherence and have difficulty expressing myself.  Also I tire very quickly in social gatherings like pubs or parties and start to dissociate from it, lose all connectivity - almost a sort of shut down. That has led to me being accused of being drunk or on drugs, when I drink little, and certainly don't do drugs. 

However if I go (well in the past tense really) to a venue with dominant loud music, that overrides the multiple conversation effect, I'm much less affected. I don't like loud music, but it seems safer and perhaps predictable and manageable.

But my efforts to find out about this phenomenon don't raise any help from autism professionals or NAS, more likely I get other non-autistic spectrum people saying they have the same problem.

So this may have nothing to do with autistic spectrum

Glad the interpretation proved useful to you.

Background noise in pubs etc is something that ought to be easily found in books on autistic spectrum, but is very much lacking. That might be down to the professionals (and NAS) having a fixation with the triad, and addressing sensory issues as a poor second. However it doesn't seem unique to people on the spectrum. Not have I been able to find out if many people on the spectrum experience this.

I cannot do collective socialising. I don't avoid it altogether, but my efforts to indulge in it are usually fraught. If lots of other people around me are talking, or there is other complex background noise, I don't even hear meaningful English - it sounds foreign. I have to guess my way through conversations and do a lot of nodding to imply I follow.

It also seems to affect how I speak. I seem to lose coherence and have difficulty expressing myself.  Also I tire very quickly in social gatherings like pubs or parties and start to dissociate from it, lose all connectivity - almost a sort of shut down. That has led to me being accused of being drunk or on drugs, when I drink little, and certainly don't do drugs. 

However if I go (well in the past tense really) to a venue with dominant loud music, that overrides the multiple conversation effect, I'm much less affected. I don't like loud music, but it seems safer and perhaps predictable and manageable.

But my efforts to find out about this phenomenon don't raise any help from autism professionals or NAS, more likely I get other non-autistic spectrum people saying they have the same problem.

So this may have nothing to do with autistic spectrum