i think diet affects many of our sensors. From sight, to touch, to pain resistence, to how quickly our minds can problem solve. To sleeping habits. I think our doet os a much bigger factor in our stability than many realize. (Not commenting or directing this towards autism one way or another) and @Road Ratt hats off to you for having the strength and courage to be open with strangers about it. Heck. Its probably the best way for the uninformed to get informed. i dated a girl in hi-school for most of my time there and she had an autistic brother. We would take him with us almost all the time. i got in a couple fights over him. Or should i say over the disgusting way some would treat him right to his face. Mocking him. Man. Getting all riled up just thinking about it now.
I'm sorry to hear that. I was hoping that Road Ratt would weigh in, but I stand corrected. My apologies.
I didn't sleep well last night. I only had enough energy this morning to post what I did then have lunch before a nap. I will try to reply and add more when/as I can.
Yeah, it's not funny. It's made things hard for my son like going to school. He has auditory hypersensitivity which means he can be easily overwhelmed by lots of sound. Loud noises are painful and excruciating to his ears. To me and you a fire alarm is just loud and annoying. To him it is instantaneously overpowering and excruciating. He has issues with coordination and often bumps into things because he doesn't have the normal sense of where his body is compared to his surroundings. He struggles with writing though he has made strides there. He has trouble staying on task. He must sometimes be reminded to let his food cool down because it will burn his mouth. He has trouble doing simple things like riding a bike. He gets excruciating migranes that make him sick. It's very tough to see him go through. It's even tougher for him to go through it. So, I will say again, it's not something to joke about.
I finally regained my abilities. Mostly. I am not fully recovered, but the severe sensory processing issues are now down to a more manageable level. And my ability to remember celebrity names returned just a couple of months ago, and has improved ever since. I lost my abilities for 3 years. I lost my ability to communicate well. To keep up with chores. To keep up with threads (like the Blazers game thread), conversations, etc. . Severe sensory processing issues caused so many problems that my equilibrium was off, so I had to walk slowly or maybe bump into the door jamb, or a wall. It affects literally everything you do, from the time you wake up to the time you go to bed. It caused such severe problems that I should have been hospitalized. But not much is understood about autistic burnout by the medical community. So, without this knowledge, there is nothing they could have done for me anyway. I understand now, that this all started due to extreme stress from health issues I was having back in late 2018 into early 2019. In early 2019 was when I noticed the first time that I lost my abilities. Of course I didn't know what happened at the time. I was too deep in autistic burnout, and lacked the information that I now have. In January of 2020 I was improving when the pandemic hit. This through me deeper into burnout. I have been recovering for a year and a half now. Since late 2020. That is when I found out about autistic burnout. There was/is more issues than just the sensory processing issue. But I won't bore you with them, I can't even remember the names of some of the stuff that I found out. I have now come to see this as a 3 year medical emergency. When you lose your abilities this severely, normal life is no longer possible. Extreme autistic burnout is very debilitating. In the last year, I have never had this many problems sleeping. Constantly napping because I didn't sleep well, or I ran out of mental energy for the day. Which happened a lot. Dealing with severe sensory, as well as severe sensory processing issues, all day is taxing on your mental energy. I am sure my sleep will come back with more time, as I recover. But it may be months before I am at full abilities. This is affecting my joining in threads. Coming up with words doesn't come easy anyway. But in my current situation, joining even a Rest In Peace thread is difficult to do. I keep wondering why I should say something about someone who... is already dead. Sort of autistic thinking I guess. This experience has changed the way that I see everything. So I may not give the proper response that people are normally looking for. Maybe I will down the road, and maybe not ever. Only time will tell. I will leave it here, as I have ran out of things to add for now. Take it easy. RR
