Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
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Meltdown vs. Tantrum

 Know the difference.  Also understand that meltdowns are not exclusive to neurovariant children.  Neurotypical kids and adults can have them too.  Everyone has a threshold where their brain will enter buffer overflow and cease to function properly due to excessive input.  It's just a lower threshold for some people than others.  Also understand how to cope with a meltdown.
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kestrels_nest

kestrels_nest

March 18 2015, 21:56:50 UTC 6 years ago

I've been trying to explain this to my mother for years. It's frustrating.
ysabetwordsmith

Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

March 18 2015, 23:21:06 UTC 6 years ago

People who have low sensitivity and high spoons just do not get it.

One of my quirks is low habituation. A tiny little thing that bugs me is unlikely to stop bugging me. I have to be careful shopping for clothes to make sure they are comfortable. But I excel at noticing, for example, there is a bug crawling on me -- which means I can swat or brush it off before it attacks.
fayanora

fayanora

March 19 2015, 00:54:43 UTC 6 years ago

Yup yup. Autistic people just tend to seem to have a lower threshold because their brain does more stuff than neurotypical brains do. Like with me, my vision is hypersensitive. I can see individual leaves on trees miles and miles away, I can see the veins on grass leaves from a distance of 15 feet away, and I'm hyperattuned to movement and can sense it even when it's a tiny movement like a slow drip from a ceiling. I was always the one to catch leaks at my house, leaks my parents had trouble seeing even when I pointed their eyes right at it.