@neversosimple I haven't heard it phrased that way before, but it sounds like the symptom description of one form of Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) which is extremely common among autistics.
SPD generally involves us having one or more hypo-sensitive and/or hyper-sensitive senses.
Hyper sensitivity being where we can't filter out that sense as well, and Hypo sensitivity is where we can't filter it in as well (ie. it has to either be a strong input or we have to concentrate to notice things with that sense; we very often stim with our hypo-sensitivities).
This is where you get the more valid stereotypes of us having issues with textures (tactile hyper-sensitivity), lights (visual), and sounds (audio, but also see another subset of SPD called Central Auditory Processing Disorder).