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neversosimple , to ActuallyAutistic group
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Has anyone ever used the term "diminished perceptive filtering?

I just thought of it (or subconsciously picked it up somewhere, I dunno) and I think it makes sense to my experience. I don't believe I necessarily have heightened sensory sensitivity, it's more about not being able to adjust my levels of perception that well. Thoughts?

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shiri ,
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@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).

shiri ,
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@skippy442 @neversosimple how many combinations of letters are available for up to 10 letters? lol

shiri ,
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@neversosimple I think it's less of a "this is a distinctly different condition" and more "sound is so central to our daily lives this is more notable"

quinze , to ActuallyAutistic group
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Heya @actuallyautistic folks, do we have a Prime Directive around undiagnosed folks?

Trans folks have the Egg Prime Directive: don't tell someone they might be trans, because it's conter-intuitive in most cases (pushing people deeper into the closet).

As I disclose my diagnosis to people close to me, an unsurprising amount of them resonate with my experience and ask me whether I think they might be. I refuse to answer but share resources and offer to reply to questions about my personal experience.

shiri ,
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@quinze no to both, I call it out when I see it. I've had so many conversations with people where their life changed from me just telling them they register as autistic.

I've been called out before when I was an egg and definitely will call out eggs as I see them, because so often they don't realize it's even an option for them.

melindrea , to ActuallyAutistic group
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Reading wikipedia on autism for Reasons (tm).

I don't get it. Why is it so important that we don't stim? Like, there are some that are contextually inappropriate (loud noises when it might disturb others, for instance), but outside of those few things ... what's the problem with hand flapping, body wiggling, hair twirling, vocalizing in repetitive ways when it's not distracting/disturbing, etc, etc, etc?

Bah, humbug >.< @actuallyautistic

shiri ,
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@melindrea fundamentally because it makes us obviously different and anything different is seen as bad.

Allistic identities tend to be rooted in their associations and groups, so they prize homogeneity: different is bad, same is good.

Our identities on the other hand are usually based in values... different doesn't matter so much, only what values that person shows.

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