Whoes avatar gives you sensory overload?

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most moving / flashing / bright avatars f**k with my brain, but my tolerance to them has gradually increased. the only one that i still find completely unbearable is the ferret expert one (i can't remember his user-name). to begin with, i simply couldn't read posts by people with unpleasant avatars, but now i only have difficulty if their post is long. now i know the escape button secret i will be able to read everyone's posts without discomfort.

there was only one animated avatar that i liked and actually enjoyed being distracted by, and that was phoenix kitten's cat with the moving front paws. i miss that one so much!

SN, how do you block someone's avatar? (Edit: or do you mean the Esc trick to get it to stop moving?)

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I've spent a long time looking at it, but i have so many pleasing, amusing, entertaining things to read, and watch, and listen to that i don't look at it all the time.

Yes how do you block avatars, and better yet, peoples posts?

What is sensory overload? Because there is this one picture in a scary stories book that i find so visually disturbing it will cause me to have an exaggerated startle reflex, and i am horrified when i see it EVERY time. Never gets any better. If i see it in my peripheral vision it will disturb me. But only if i can see both the eyes and the mouth. If i only see the eyes it only looks nasty. If i only see the mouth it just looks nasty. But if i see the whole picture it will flood my body with adrenaline. I have never found any other picture nearly as stimulating.

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There are different types of sensory overload.

(1)one is where people (very often with AS) have difficulty using more than one sense (sight, hearing, taste,smell, touch) at a time and get overloaded with stimuli and cannot take in anymore sensory information.

(2)another which where people (very often with AS) have difficulty concentrating on a task or feel uncomfortable or stressed out by sensory information or stimuli. Such as sounds, smells, tastes, visions, textures; either combined or singuarly.

I suffer the second type quite a lot. with the avatars and animated adverts I am ok if looking directly at them, but get bad overload if I am trying to look at, or read something static and see them with my peripheral vision. I also get overload from singular smells even if im not doing anything. My overload to the SMELL of coffee is really quite disabling to me.

I can use lots of senses together but each can be impaired slightly (and no-distressingly) by others. I would not say I have the first type as a form of overload alone, but I do suffer it at times when I am stressed because of the 2nd type of overload which I do suffer from often and quite or very strongly.

hope this makes sense

Yeah, Nomaken's avatar is very bad. I halt the animation on it's first screen because I can deal with it's first picture. It's everything after that that gets to me.

I use FireFox as my browser and have the AdBlock extension installed. Rather than disabling all animations, I just flag certain avatars (the head-eater, some guy jumping up and down, closeups of eyes) for removal as if they were advertisements. I use the same feature to kill off-site links (not just here, but on any site) that load slowly and prevent page rendering.

Most other forums I'm on enforce the avatar limits by not allowing any links, so you have to upload your image directly to the forum and the upload script rejects avatars that are too big (dimensions or file size).

I can't help but watch Nomaken's Avatar...in the "like a car wreck" way...

I enjoyed watching Serissa's tapping finger's avatar, though my sister (who is not aspie) did not like it...She didn't specify why, even when I asked. "I just don't like it." :: shrugs ::

Those that don't like Eye Contact would've hated my old avatar




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We don't have the ignore button anymore. Creating technical problems it was.

Everyone is talking about animated avatars, but I don't see that. I only see a still. I have Win98SE - is there a setting I would have to change to see them move or it just isn't supported? Not that I am that concerned about seeing it move.

I agree with Nomaken's avatar being scary I have to watch it but I get freaked out by the head being bitten off... it's addictive and freaks me out every time!

my own avatar scares me sometimes because it becomes its own character in and of itself, i have no control over it most of the time.

Nomakens avatar pisses me off. It's just gross the way the face splits open like that.

I don't care how weird it is, just how gross.