Do people try to make you have a sensory overload?

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School staff test for AS? Ha!
HFA/AS people are often only detectable by trained clinicians because we have a tendency to develop coping strategies early on which mask and hide many of the more obvious symptoms like stimming.
Add that to the fact that schools are full of NTs that are just socially awkward, and a HFA/AS person just blends into the crowd as a slightly eccentric, socially awkward, but otherwise seemingly normal kid.

I suggest that you seriously consider getting a professional diagnosis, as that's the only thing that tends to convince people.
Even then it might not, but at least you'll have an official document stating that you're different to wave in front of the naysayers.

Okay idk man I don't feel as if I have used #nohomo often, but maybe it feels so natural to type it in that I don't remember typing it in ever. Kind of like typing "the" or "it" lol.

this is my experience too. "desensitising" or helping me "get used to it".

on a semi-related note. one of the best things about living alone is being able to stim when i need to (and i am at home). it is profoundly relaxing. siblings can be torturous.

That seems more like a weird potentially unwanted attempt at seduction...not so much trying to cause a overwhelming sensory overload resulting in shut down or melt down. How would have the person known that you had sensory problems and that, that would set them off? Anyways I have heard of that site and some odd things happen on it....I wouldn't visit such a site unless I was prepared for potentially unwanted shenanigans.

As a child I know my younger brother sometimes got on my nerves due to sensory overload, but i think most of the time he was just trying to be funny and at that time he was just a little kid. Also at one point I think in highschool my sister wanted to talk to her boyfriend every night till quite late in our room which we shared and it was like she had no concept that it was annoying and I couldn't sleep with her talking all night...she can be stubborn but aside from clashes like that we do get along alright.

I had instances at school...like at this preschool thing I went to there was a fire drill which freaked me out because it was loud and sudden. The teacher did nothing to comfort me and only took my socks away till I would 'be quiet' so essentially it was unwelcome touch...and just humiliating I mean what right did that woman have to take my clothing items as punishment for having anxiety over sensory overload from the stupid fire alarm. Luckily through the rest of school most other kids did not pick up on my sensory sensitivities....so I was spared some of the torture of people trying to set those off, but they did plenty of other things to set me off.

I just tried chatroulette and it is WAY cleaner and faster but the people are meaner there, it's a place for jerks to vent out their jerkiness. And they are really good at it lol, they made my friend pretty angry when we went on it today.

Sometimes it can be mighty tempting to think that NTs know what they're doing, and are doing it on purpose....like when my stepmother starts quizzing me about various things and I get all flustered and stammery, and then she's like, "What's wrong? It's just a simple question."

And she wonders why I'm seeing a psychiatrist, a therapist, taking 40 mgs of Prozac and need at least two or three coping items with me at all times.

Really? I thought chatroulette was infamous for having a bunch of people who would whip their junk out in front of the camera. I used to go on Omegle occasionally, but I would only do the text chats. I tried a video chat once with my camera pointed at a pop can, and I when I saw the other person I was like
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My friends a few years ago knew I had issues being in crowds and spontaneity but they didn't care. They would touch me, hug me, kiss me, it was just very draining. They were so loud and when we ended up in a McDonalds with them being so loud and I was confused about something that I apparently did wrong and it was just a mess. I ended up spacing out stimming wide eyed expressionless and without blinking. To make matters worse there were random people who I never knew and I just walked away and around a corner and my friend (who is now my best friend barely knew her back then) was much more understanding so I just kept with her.

She understood I didn't like being touched randomly or hugged randomly or kissed on the cheek suddenly. It just left me very confused, she is a very touchy feely person. I also am very touchy feely but only when I'm doing it, people have been annoyed by this. The other "friends" though would often do things they knew I didn't like and got upset at me. I lost 3 of them because they insisted I was a bad friend for not hanging out with them, and I only hated it because they were so random, so loud, and would provoke me. I didn't feel very free either as they kept shutting me up once I started lecturing on something I found interesting. I'd talk about the history of things at length and why things are the way they are, they nicknamed me Mr. Encyclopedia.

By the end of these days I was an absolute wreck and only then did they care (bar the one friend who is my current best friend) it was summer, it was hot and I hate the heat and am very sensitive. It was sunny all day I had no glasses my head was killing me, they socially drained me and I just couldn't get away to calm down, I didn't have a meltdown but I was in so much pain and there were just so many sensory issues going on that I ended up partially in a place I didn't plan on being in meeting people I didn't want to meet. My head hurt me the entire way back home and into the next day and I was completely exhausted.

I know South Park made a joke about Chatroullette being a place for guys to masturbate, but I would guess that was when it wasn't well monitored. To create an account now, you need a cell phone and people report the nasties all the time. I have only seen two penises on Chatroullete, but on Omegle... Dicks are kind of everywhere, and that's not how I enjoy being friendly with people. Most of the time anyways lol. #nohomo

I think that they do sometimes but it's just a bit of teasing, they try not to take it too far.