Experience The World Through Autism: 60 Seconds Of Sensory Sensitivity

As the saying goes, if you want to be empathic, you might need to "walk a mile in someone else's shoes."

Unfortunately, this isn't always possible.

Although it is unlikely that anyone without Autism will really ever experience what it is like to live with the condition, it is important to try and understand, as far as possible, how it feels.

The National Autistic Society have produced a video which aims to simulate the "sensory sensitivity" that comes with many cases of Autism.

A lot of people with the condition experience sights, sounds and smells in a different, and often much more intense, way than people without Autism.

This means that these sensory experiences can be difficult to process.

A particular sound - such as the dripping tap in the video - might be overwhelming, to the point where it gets in the way of understanding other parts of the local environment.

For most people, sensory information, such as understanding the materials that we touch or the sounds that we hear, is automatic.

We don't need to think about these things consciously, in order to interpret them.

For someone who has difficulty processing these things, interpreting them can be a distressing and sometimes painful experience.

It can make sufferers anxious and even depressed.

According to a sufferer on the NAS site: "If I get sensory overload then I just shut down; you get what's known as fragmentation...it's weird, like being tuned into 40 TV channels."

If you would like to know more about sensory sensitivity, visit the National Autistic Society website, where they have lots of information about the sensory world of Autism.

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