Possible to make an NT feel what having Autism is like?

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These are all great ideas. But I'll have to think about them b/c I have two main issues at least one of which was mentioned (but I can clear it up a bit):

1. The issue w/ NT's generalizing to "everyone w/ autism experiences this". It is a big issue, but you are supposed to do it purely from "your own point of view". So I was planning that if I do this thing, I'd do a simulation that closely or totally matches (as much as possible) what I experience. Than point out many of the other alternatives (ex.'s of what hypo v/ hyper v. mixed sensitive people may/not experience. I'd mainly be using observations of people besides myself I've known on the spectrum anonymously (describe issue not who they are more than gender & age they had issue) & attempt to stress how individual this condition is & that everyone's perception is totally different.
2. Time- I have no idea how long I'll have to do this, so I will have to pick something short or skip it (really thinking about skipping it b/c of risk people will take sim. the wrong way).

Solitary confinement for a lifetime.

I'd get arrested if I tried that one.

No you won't -- after all whatever it is you do to them, they are the ones who volunteer to experience it on the first place.

This brings up another point: if an NT shows up to your thing, they are obviously conscious about autism to begin with, so make sure you don't teach them something they already know.

This is a thing that covers disabilities not just autism. So their is a slight chance (though I will give you I do think it is very slight) they (whoever would show up) may not know about autism.

I read the first one & never heard of the second before.

I was just mentioning the second item, because it clarifies Mark Haddon's involvement with autism (i.e. it was his work with children diagnosed with Down's syndrome, who in retrospect may well be re-diagnosed as autistic, these days.

Unfortunately, I also missed seeing "Coming Down the Mountain", which was a TV film, shown here on Sunday September 2nd, 2007 on BBC 1 at 9pm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_Down_the_Mountain I would guess it might be repeated, sometime, but as to whether it gets out of the UK...

Anyway, this is the intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvNr5HknPAQ. (Which makes it all more frustrating, that I missed it!)

I often speak to groups of parents and professionals and do presentations for classes of children and one thing that I do is to provide some experience of sensory difficulties. I cut up pieces of very coarse sandpaper and ask the audience to put them under their clothing before the talk begins. I do a brief introduction and speak briefly about some of the sensory differences people with autism experience and stress that no two are the same. I then have somone flicking lights on and off while I play a pre recorded tape of extremely loud environmental sounds e.g. keys dropping, shoes shuffling on a hard floor, a door slamming etc. While the audience is coping with that, I have them doing a maths test with a warning that the results will be shared with the audience. This only lasts about 3 minutes but stress levels soar. Of course I don't expect people to share their maths performance, but I do talk about how some people coped but others were very stressed and that Autistics may cope with those types of experiences 24/7. This experience has a big impact.