Autism: Sensory overload

Experiencing a sensory overload leading to an irrepressible desire to escape

Please Watch in higher quality- Sorry Youtube does not do well with fast motion because of the type of compression used.

Recorded on the 21st of December whilst waiting at the Ataturk airport, Istanbul. Also on Taksim Square and along Istiklal Caddessi.

Music: Schoenberg:Guige from Suite for Piano, Op. 25, played by Glenn Gould.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Autism
• PDD-NOS
• Asperger
• Autistic
• sensory overload
• fear
• anxiety
• panic attack
• Autism Treatment Trust
• Lorene Amet
• Skymaker69

[AutismTreatmentTrust]

Thanks for your message. Yes, this was the point of the video, showing, making people feel sensory overload. Even the pigeons were overloaded as I walked through them. Most of my videos are about how it feels to be in a given situation or in a given frame of mind. Thats how I like to relate to the environment and people and convey messages that are I thinka fuller, non-verbal accounts. All the events I show are real life events. The videos constitute a fuller sensory-visual memory of the events

[louisa365]

this video explained well what an overload is like, i have HFA and its just everyday situations like these (that for a neurotypical are normal) that can have a huge effect on people with autism or aspergers, its supermarkets ,airports, train stations, cities, and school, that are just places where people visit all the time, that are difficult to cope with and i know how hard it is and this video was a great explanation

[rancar29]

Makes me anxious just watching it.

[intricatic]

@cmoursler3 Heck, I just avoid them. So much easier.

[cmoursler3]

YES! I sat watching this video thinking..and......lol. This is how it always feels. I have learned to focus in crowds.  You pick something and focus. It can be done.

[jjovereats]

@louisa365 I'm an Aspergers sufferer (HFA) and often get sensory underload. Mainly taste and smell, which is why I'm fat. Another is visual, because I am so used to seeing a computer screen all day, and occasionally I blindfold myself to put myself in the shoes of Daisy, my blind acquaintance.

[SayAnythingBob]

This music fits the scene perfectly well. I love the sound. It's chaotic, yet organized.

[andyforawesome]

Oh god that was an actual piece of music?! Who would torture themselves listening to that??

[motleyminded85]

This is how I feel ALL THE TIME!!!!!

[louellasnugglebunny]

Even though Glenn Gould was also an Aspie, I found this music alone painful!!

[fafoosnick6839]

Thanks for posting this. My four year old son, who's autistic, has been displaying signs of sensory overload in crowded places. We learned what triggered it just yesterday while at Chuck-e-Cheese (major YIKES!). After an hour went by, and more kids filled the place, he simply could no longer handle the noise and chaos.

[Aluapay]

Wow thanks so much for posting.