OrphieBaby, baby pandabun! 💙 on Nostr: But yeah, the "it's not for the same reason as with neurotypicals, it's processing" ...

But yeah, the "it's not for the same reason as with neurotypicals, it's processing" is true of everything. When I say I can't handle audio, they often think I mean I can't handle volume. It's not volume, it's that there is very little that my brain can tuned out and make background information. And it will compete with everything else for my full attention and my brain will be forced to engage and think about it.

Now imagine being a scrutinizing person because nothing is background information. You'd end up picking everything apart. And after maturity, 90% of all music lyrics are nonsense to you. But you can't not hear them, you can't tune them out and not think of them. Not to mention you're already trying to focus on something else.

The lack of things becoming "background information" is why I spend hours ripping hair out of my face (trichotillomania). Autistic symptoms share sources (or lead back to a supersource, but I digress)