Today's blog is all about how noise
affects me and my Asperger's. It is called Sensory Overload. I am
going to give the example of last Thursday, when I had to go to bed
with an overload of chatter.
Last Thursday my uncle on my mum's side
came over for a couple of hours. He has a loud voice anyway, but that
day he forgot his hearing aids, so it was even louder and my mum had
to raise her voice so he could hear her. Even with the kitchen door
closed to, I could still hear the chatter going on. Now and then I
would try concentrating on things I wanted to do such as typing, or
walk from room to room, or go upstairs to get away from it. But after
two hours of hearing it, my head started to go fuzzy and then finally
spinning round inside. I knew then that I couldn't take any more, so
I did what I don't like doing; going to bed when we have a visitor. I
had no choice. I went to bed and shed a few tears because it upset
me, feeling anti-social to my uncle.
My mum later told me that my uncle had
asked her if it was in my head. My mum replied that no, it was how my
brain is and can't take a lot of noise, esp loud ones.
So, here are my tips to coping with
noise overload:
1. Try to concentrate on other things
such as reading or writing. Things that take your mind away from the
chatter.
2. Go in the garden for some air, if
it's not too cold.
3. Go upstairs for a few minutes to get
a breather.
4. You could tell your relative that
their voice is proving too much for you, please calm it down.
5. Shut a door to the noise, but tell
people what you are doing first and why
6. If it all fails, then go up to your
room and stay there.
I hope that this gives people some
insight to people coping with noise and overload of it, and how
others with Asperger's can cope with it.
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