Many people just don’t seem to understand what I say when I’m overwhelmed with a bunch of stuff going on around me. They seem to find it extremely difficult to understand why its hard for me to be in groups of people. This video will explain why. It shows an Autistic man riding a public transit bus, who gets very visibly overwhelmed.The video to the right is a PSA put out by the National Autism Society in the UK, and in my opinion it shows a great first person perspective of what it can be like to be overwhelmed. With me, I don’t see like that – and I have a feeling that was to dramatize the video, but with a lot of noise going on around me it can be very hard for me.
I found the guy with his headphones blaring to be a huge example of something that irritates me. While on the public transit my two biggest irritants were always people talking with their cell phones blaring on speakerphone and people with their headphones turned up so loud everyone on the bus knew what they were listening too.
If you have Autism does this video show some common things that overwhelm you?
If you don’t have Autism does this video make it easier for you to understand?
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Well, I haven’t been on a bus in decades. My main problem is that, living in an apartment complex, there are maybe 10 or 12 other apartments on my floor. What annoys me most is when others let their doors slam closed, instead of holding onto the doorknobs until the door closes. Foam strips could be added to the doorjams to lessen the impact, but the landlady doesn’t see the need, I guess. The other thing is people talking loudly in the hallways. It’s kinda hard to “love thy neighbor” when thy neighbor slams their door!
I don’t see why they had to distort the noises. They’re not distorted to me; sometimes with a lot of voices you can’t get meaning out of them, but that’s different from them actually not being clear.
Showing one noise at a time doesn’t make much sense to do, because to me they all pile up on top of each other. That’s half the problem–you can’t filter out one noise from the rest because they’re all so jumbled into a big unidentifiable stew. (Not distorted–just mixed up, like the things in a junk drawer.)
I think the best representation would be simply a double-volume recording of an actual bus ride, with the high-pitched noises lots louder than just double, and with sudden, jarring beginnings to them instead of gradual starts. The noise of the brakes on a bus is especially annoying.
I was very annoyed at this video for whilst the company claimed there innocence it is highly derivative of my video, which unlike this video that was constructed, mine was fly on the wall and real life.
The first scenes are almost shot for shot from “outside in”
Do you have a copy of your original video?
The NAS are selling it.
Chaotic Idealism
My Video was a real bus journey, as it happened, filmed at natural volume and the voiceover was not added it was contemporaneous, even the poetry was spoken right there on the bus with all the other passengers. No trickery, no sound effects, just real life.
If you want an example of my real life transport videos go for ten minute rough cut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1iLNZC0ins&feature=channel_page
Well the first bit is a journey anyway the rest is just verbiage
Larry
I don’t know how you could do a video like this one so it would be like a photograph that has multiple exposures.
When my senses are being bombarded with many different sounds, smells, facial expressions, etc. at the same time, it’s overstimulating to say the least.
@Sheilia,
its pretty easy with post editing.