A friend of mine forwarded an article on autism research to me. The article itself, which says that autistic children process sound more slowly than neurotypical children, would be fasicnating even if I didn’t have so personal an interest. But there was a comment afterwards about what it’s like to be autistic that just stunned me. The writer, who calls himself “Captain Obvious”, said:
It’s … like trying to discern a current, while standing under a tons/second waterfall: it isn’t so much “scrambled”, as it is “snowing-out one’s ability to perceive/know clearly”.
I have thought for years that my son’s issues arose from a lack of mental “filters”, but this is such an overwhelmingly vivid, visceral description of just what that means.