I was in VRChat and we were talking about autism and I don’t remember how exactly it happened but I ended up calling my dad in VR and asking him if the reason I got taken for “physical therapy” at school for several years after I learned to write (originally it was because I’m left handed but didn’t have enough muscles and motor control to write well) and my dad confirmed that it was to help me develop and I never realized.
They had an inside swing, a big ol weighted blanket, a bean bag, putty of different thicknesses to strengthen hand muscles, fidget toys, and the “teacher” had a cool little glass sphere on her desk that had live coral in it. She said there used to be a shrimp but it died. tbh even as an adult I’d love to go back there and just mess around with all the different toys. I still have one she gave me at the end of the school year.
The person I was talking to in VRChat thought it was so funny I never noticed that he friended me and we became good friends for a while. I even visited him to go to formula drift together (drifting cars but a ranked competition)
How much would an extra room have helped you, compared with things such as sunglasses and (partial) ear plugs?
Hard to say for sure. It’s not so much a light/sound sensitivity for me so much as the movement and activity and whatnot. Given I went to school before they really understood these things, I was never diagnosed with anything.
ah yeah that makes sense. that reminds me of epilepsy: there are two major ways of triggering it:
you got the second kind; just instead of epilepsy, it’s autistic meltdown or sth.