Autism: Sensory Overloaded by Emotions

By Travis Breeding

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by a sensual experience? Imagine magnifying that times 100. That is reality for many on the autism spectrum. This part of the presentation talks about how people with autism balance sensory input issues with socializing and following unwritten social rules in the real world. The presenter examines how people with autism have physical and emotional sensory experiences throughout their life.

Travis explains how physical sensations interfere with his ability to process social situations. He wonders if autism is not more of a sensory disorder than it is a social disorder. Is it possible that sensory experiences interfere with the ability to conceptualize and interpret social situations? You will learn the presenter’s opinion on this subject as well as begin to learn how he balances sensory input issues with following the unwritten social rules of the world.

Travis explains how he feels overwhelmed sensory wise by other people's emotions. He feels other people's emotions sometimes more than his own. This can cause him to over react in responding to the emotions of his friends. Sometimes Travis' response to comfort someone is over the top to them because he is experiencing their emotion more magnified or dramatic than they are.

Emotions are all about context. Emotions are also a spectrum just like autism. There can be high functioning and low functioning emotions. It is important to understand the context of each emotion another person has in order to match the context of your emotional response and then match that context with your social response. Travis tells how he tries to learn to match context functioning levels of his friend’s emotions with his in this informative presentation.

If someone with autism seems socially awkward it may be that they are having a sensory input experience that is preventing them from being proper socially. Often the sensory overload shuts down the social part of the brain preventing people with autism from accessing skills that they might have. The trick is to learn how to eliminate sensory barriers that prevent you from being successful in social relationships. This presentation is the presenter’s experience with experiencing and relating to other people's emotions as someone on the autism spectrum.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Breeding Publishing
• Release date: Jul 2, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463148389

Travis Breeding

Travis is an author from Huntington Indiana how enjoys entertaining and educating through words. He enjoys telling a story and taking it from his mind to paper. He has authored several books on autism, mental illness, schizophrenia, and disability issues. He continues to write about those issues but also explores some fiction writing as well. Travis has a loving family and enjoys spending time with friends and family. He loves to play bingo and meet new people. One day Travis hopes to start a family of his own and give them so much love. Travis would like to thank his readers for supporting him on his journey of becoming an author. He could not have done it without you. If you would like to get in touch with Travis please email him at tbreedauthoratgmaildotcom,

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Autism: Sensory Overloaded by Emotions

Travis Breeding

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Autism: Sensory Overloaded by Emotions

About the Author

Autism: Sensory Overloaded by Emotions

Autism is often thought of being a social disorder but throughout my autism experience I am noticing how autism seems to be more of a sensory processing disorder for me instead of a social disorder.

When I am talking about sensory processing disorder I am talking about so much more than what we would commonly think of as sensory processing disorder.

More so than just certain textures, feelings, sights, and sounds that interfere with the sensory processing experience comes the senses of interpreting and feeling other people’s emotions. Yes, I said feeling other people’s emotions because at the end of each day I seem to be exhausted and depleted of energy after picking up on the emotional vibrations of other people.

Sometimes I find that I feel other people’s emotions more strongly than my own emotions and I spend a lot of time and energy trying to understand and relate to other people’s emotions.

Along with the common sensory experiences of hearing a light hum or having clothes feel too tight for me is the new sense of feeling other people’s emotions and trying to respond to them in the appropriate manner.

With the intense amount of sensory overload, I am experiencing I find it hard to even concentrate on learning social skills. This has led me to formulate a hypothesis that perhaps at its core autism is more of a sensory processing disorder than it is a social disorder.

Autism to me is a sensory processing disorder that leads to social issues that are commonly thought to be a social disorder but the more I think about this issue the more I begin to think that autism is more of a sensory processing disorder than anything else.

Imagine being someone who needs to try and hide in their shell each day to avoid feeling overwhelmed by senses of touch, smell, light, and sound. Imagine the amount of focus and energy it must take to try and process those senses at the extreme level in which those of us with an autism often experience them.

Next, imagine a hidden sixth sense as this is what I am going to refer to it as. Imagine a new sixth sense in which you not only have physical sensory processing experiences, but you also have the overwhelming sensory experience of feeling other people’s emotions on a more extreme level than what others without autism may experience other people’s emotions at.

Imagine knowing someone who is sad but feeling sadder based on