Sensory Issues And Meltdown
Many an autistic person displays atypical responses to various stimuli. A sensitivity to light, aversion to certain—or sustained—sound, difficulty interfacing with certain materials, food textures that trigger revulsion that can hardly be overcome.
More interesting still, is that many cases of autism that do not display these traits or where they are diminutive enough in severity to be ignored, begin to display them in consort with another primary autistic symptom: meltdown. An autistic person in a meltdown who can usually handle many a sound may suddenly need silence, one for whom strain has built up may suddenly find themselves charting a course that avoids stepping outside without fully knowing why, a disdain swallowed when moving polystyrene about earlier in putting together a piece of furniture multiplying tenfold by the end of the stressful job, when putting everything in the bin.
It’s quite interesting, isn’t it?