#stimulus overload

[aus10england]

tumblr is bad for my mental health but here my bitch ass is

[hhyunwooo]

RED ALERT DUDES IT’S COMEBACK TIME!!!

[shark-bait-52]

Harry Styles with Queer Eye in Japan karaoking to Queen and Whitney Houston is the content I didn't know I needed until now.

If you need me, I'll be crying in the club.

[hygienekim]

Sometimes my brain shoves a sock in my mouth because whatever is going on around is so much more important than whatever's in my thoughts, other times my brain fries up and does the equivalent of the blue screen of death. Either way if you have a friend who gets overwhelmed by stimuli easily, just take them to a calm place and give them some space (not talking also works in my case). If they decide they need to quit today, try to be understanding.

[rinaforstars]

when a game is on espn and my dad groans and proceeds to mute the tv and blast the tragically hip

[enigmaticnico]

Stimulation Overload

Whenever you get a few moments of silence to sit with yourself, with your own thoughts and uncomfortable emotions, you reach out for something to distract yourself from them. You reach out for your phone. You reach out for a snack. You reach out for company. You reach out for anything that will help you drown out the loud voice in your head.​ We want to distract ourselves because we have…

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[rubberins0les]

Hate it when I'm in a room full of talking people

[butterflyinthewell]

Using your PC to explain autism to people who don’t get it.

My brain tries to acknowledge literally everything, and I have to decide whether to click “yes” or “no’ when it prompts me to acknowledge or ignore stimuli. 

Clock ticking? Y/N ... N Cat running wildly through the house? Y/N ... N Telephone ringing? Y/N ... Y Name called? Y/N ... Y

I might click ‘no’ without ‘reading’ the message, but I’m still acknowledging it long enough to discard it. 

Stimming is me idling as I decide what to do if there is more than one alert popping up. It can also help me close a lot of alert boxes at once as long as more don’t pop up while I’m trying to close what’s already there. I’ll probably develop a lot of lag if more alerts pop up.

Meltdowns and shutdowns are the program freezing and crashing because there’s too much popping up at once and not enough RAM. The system can’t handle all that data.

If I’m sick, hungry, tired, injured, or dealing with monthly female stuff, my body will be generating its own stimulus popups to compete with popups from outside. Internal popups take up RAM normally allocated for handling external stuff, so my program will lag more and crash faster on fewer external popups.

And that’s it.

--Side note, I am not a technical person at all, but this analogy seems to make the most sense to people.