Is Aspergers just extremely high latent inhibition/focus?

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I tend to perceive it both as noise/static and as a pipeline. The static, as you described, and the pipeline as even the relevant data can get to be so much that it clogs up and mental latency becomes huge. The static can overtake the data, and it can just make the pipeline get more and more clogged up with irrelevant data.

Weighted blankets are absolutely amazing. I tend to live wrapped up in mine since I made it earlier this month (okay, I didn't even finish it, but I've been wrapping up in in constantly anyways). I have definitely had periods of time when my weighted blanket was the only thing that prevented me from having a meltdown - I was so proud of myself the first time that I'd hit a point where I normally would have and didn't.

One of the reasons I really want to buy land and build on it and get out of an apartment is because of our plans for a zero room for me. We actively plan on making a room (likely two actually - both this and a bathroom) able to have as little sensory input as possible, and what there is friendly. It'd only have LED lighting that is as easy to turn off as possible, no windows, soundproof walls, only soft things with low thermal conductivity, and such.

I would agree with the feeling of having a certain level of static just there constantly to be dealt with, and then when it gets worse being more and more sensitive to things. At the moment I'm having to stop and remember the words I want to type because the sound of the air conditioner is causing mental interference.

Tuttle, I apologize if I came across as trying to say what your experiences are. I just wanted to refine my own metaphors. I like the pipeline metaphor too, although I have a lot of trouble visualizing it.

I want a real weighted blanket - one that isn't necessarily warm. My comforter can be too warm, but it's harder to sleep without it.

I love the sound of your zero room. I've actually wanted something like that of my own, but never had.

It is so strange to me how people want to make shutdowns into anxiety. My therapist tried to reframe it as anxiety, and then wanted me to call it a less "negative" name (confused the heck out of me) when she understood it wasn't anxiety. Very strange.

I hadn't taken it like that - I was just using your metaphors to help determine my own thinking about myself



If you sew and have time for it then it is actually doable to make one for far less than one would cost. When going through insurance to see if they'd cover it was taking so long, that was the method I took. It takes a bunch of time, but for people who have more time than money, its an option.



This is probably the biggest issue I have with getting along with my dad. My dad has major anxiety problems, and doesn't understand that I don't. He see's me having issues with too much noise and such, and assumes I'm reacting the same as he would, and starts projecting his anxiety onto me. I would really like to see any way to successfully describe to people who are convinced they're anxiety what is actually going on, as I've yet to come up with a good description.

Ah, okay. I had a non-trivial amount of static at the time.



I don't sew much, although I found advice for using glue and velcro, which seems interesting, and faster.



Indeed. I've had a tremendous amount of anxiety in my life, although lately with the Zoloft I'm taking, it's almost down to nothing - and feels amazing. And yet most of my autistic stuff is as strong as ever. I seem to stim a bit less, but some of my stimming is prompted by anxiety, so that might explain it.