I'm 13 and have a question about Autism

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sorry double post I got that 505 error whatever it is I get it alot

This site is like a old tractor with one cylinder down, a rough gearbox and leaking hydraulics. It just about gets the job done but not always fun.

Ear defenders also known as ear muffs, just a general name not a brand, Peltor 3M are a good brand they make kids sizes.

I posted this in the wrong before sorry for that
OK here we go again and I know nobody but JD can tell me want is in JD's head. He had a Doctors appointment. I went I ask the doctor what went through JD's mind like when he went in a store does he feel like everybody is watching him does he feel different. does he I get the smell part and kind of the sound part. The doctor said well he sees himself as being the only different person in the world and kind of blew me off or it felt like that. If it is not a rude question How do Autistic people see them self or maybe how do they see other people? what is it like to walk in his shoes are can an NT get an idea of his world from his point of view are someone who has walked his road as a six-year-old. I don't even mean why he goes south (meltdowns) not any of that just how he sees the world Sorry if this question makes anybody upset.I really have a reason for asking,

Cotton, you are asking excellent questions. I love that you are asking them. These are the kinds of questions that we really appreciate because it shows that you have a heart to really understand and that is wonderful. I want to take some time to answer each of the questions you asked and how I relate to them. I won't be able to write tonight though because I have to sleep in about a half hour. But tomorrow I will try to write more. Thank you for asking these questions.

I get the feeling I may not have asked my question very well and maybe overstepped. I was asking does anybody remember how they saw the world at JD's age (6yrs). At 6yrs I had no fear of anything or anybody I had never meet a stranger, could do anything no self-doubt (can't say that anymore) I didn't mean to ask anything but that was not trying to get personal.

Get him ear plugs that are connected with a string and ear muffs / ear phones. Leave it up to him if possible which he wants to wear, and when he wants to wear them. I would probably want to be wearing ear muffs most of the time out there. Ear muffs come at different levels of protection. I wear heavy duty ones for target shooting and much lighter duty ones for regular outdoor stuff. You might also want to put them on first so he gets the idea and can see that they're harmless.

When I was six, I had lots of fears.

But asking stupid questions wasn't one of them LOL. I once asked a lady in the street: "Why are you fat?"

I really had very little "emotional" inhibitions. Only physical ones like: I couldn't go on the monkey bars because I feared heights so much.

This JD kid is lucky. I like that he's being indulged. I wasn't indulged at that age.

Yep. I think so, too.

By the time I was six, I was pretty independent. I did pretty well socially because Aspie girls can do that. But I don't really remember what I felt at that age, moreso what I did. I remember playing alone a lot and tagging behind my older brother. I also played with neighborhood friends in a pretty normal way but I think I was more interested in what we played than in the friends themselves. Like I had a friend named Beth and I loved playing with her because she had a stuffed animal that I loved. So it was kind of like that. I don't remember if I had fears or what I felt a lot of the times. I also did not suffer from sensory overload like I do now because people back then did not do what they do now. Sub woofers that fit in cars had not been invented. It was very quiet so I did not have the issues with sound that I do now. So I did not have have meltdowns as a kid. Those started when I was an adult and became much more exposed to stimuli that I never knew existed as a kid.