Published on 12, July, 2020
I struggle to focus cause I can't block things out. Background sounds. Voices. If there's a clock ticking I can't help but notice it, it's putting me off my school work. It's also causing a negativity in me that I'm not really used to cause normally I'm such a bubbly positive girl.
Same thing happens at home if someone talks to me I can't help but notice say the TV or a clock or someone's phone if it's playing music.
AutisticDisneyFan said:I struggle to focus cause I can't block things out.
This is a classic autistic issue - our brains never developed the filter for sensory input that neurotypicals did so we struggle with oversensitive responses to hearing, smell, touch and taste (all at differing levels).
With the audio input our brain is trying to process each stream of audio at the same time and that kind of multitasking is exhausing - when combined with other social interaction issues it is the leading cause on why we end up with burnout.
The best workaround for this is as others pointed out - either kill the noise with headphones or / and other noise to drown out what noise can get through.