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This is generally a good article but this section
Erin Rackham proposes being perceived as another type of sense.
She can propose but the link is to a TikTok and meantime ‘gaze detection’ has been disproven repeatedly. Here’s a link to an accessible article by an accredited neuroscientist writing in an academic journal discussing exactly this
As an autistic person, I hate being perceived.
lmao!! I’ve never heard put that way, but yes!
Autistic people don’t get used to forced sensory sensitivities; they DISSOCIATE. Autistic people don’t “habituate”. Research shows our pain receptors light up when we’re exposed to our sensory sensitivities.
So much this. Prior to doing trauma work, a therapist ran a dissociation scale on me, and my score was quite high…like dissociative disorder high. I then worked with them to reconnect with reality and overwhelmed myself into a psychosomatic mess. I almost went to the hospital a few times until the autism therapist stepped in and told me what I needed to do to get it together. That was serious. I thought I was dying.
This was very relatable.
Possibly, but they lost me at people on the spectrum having super human senses not available to neurotypical brains as a means to explain why the feelings of not wanting to be seen is not ‘mearly’ anxiety. Then mention to nebulous “studies” to back them up without citation.
That’s a really poor way to describe it. I don’t have superhuman vision, but I do have photosensitivity to the point I feel blinded in bright sunlight without eye protection. I don’t have superhuman hearing, but I will lay awake at night due to the buzzing sound of a transformer that other people swear they can’t hear, because I have limited ability to filter out sounds. My senses aren’t better than a neurotypical person’s, they’re just constantly heightened. My dark vision is a lot better than most people’s though, so it’s not all bad I guess.
