"In support of neurodiversity, Apple is introducing new background sounds to help minimize distractions"

So, they're adding -more noises- (ocean/natural sounds) to the phone.. for neurodiversity..

Let's see what they're doing for Deaf/HoH people:
1/3
"support for recognizing audiograms to Headphone Accommodations. Users can quickly customize their audio with their latest hearing test results imported from a paper/PDF audiogram. Headphone Accommodations amplify soft sounds & adjust certain frequencies to suit a user’s hearing"
A lot of autistic people experience hyperacusis. This Headphones Accommodations they created could likely easily accommodate hyperacusis by creating a limit on max sound volume and also adjusting certain frequencies.

But.. let's just be able to add a rain noise to the phone. 😞
Why can't hyperacusis be accommodated in the same way that Deaf/HoH people are in technology? They clearly have the tech to do it.

Don't #ActuallyAutistic and all Neurodivergent people deserve painless sound? #GAAD
[for people who don't know what hyperacusis is, it is ear pain from moderately loud sounds - sounds other people don't consider to be "too loud"]

Also a lot of people who have hearing loss also have hyperacusis.

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22 May
This is going to be a controversial thread

because it's about autistic cis women, and gender.

But I do think it's time to address it.

I've seen this in quite a few autistic spaces, especially when giving advice to parents.

1/15
I'd like to clarify that this is specifically revolving around posts about trans and nonbinary autistic people, or autistic people questioning their gender identity. I see this the most on posts by parents of autistic kids who are questioning their gender identity.

2/15
Autistic cis women commonly have shared their experiences on these types of threads - threads where a parent specifically asks for help about how to support their kid questioning their gender identity.

3/15
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21 May
So I just randomly stumbled upon some noise-canceling earbuds that can be helpful for hearing loss,

and it turns out there are several reviews from neurodivergent people (including autistic people referencing sensory overload) saying they were helpful -
nuheara.com/usa/products/
I've never heard of them at all but feel like it's definitely worth mentioning in case anyone thinks it would help them. I think most reviews were referencing the IQbuds2 Max.

The most common complain is that even the "small" earbud size is still painful &/or falls out easily.
But at least two people reviewed it who were autistic and said it helped with canceling out loud sounds, other people said it helped cancel out chewing sounds. And it has a lot of different environmental settings. Not sure if it would be good for hyperacusis or not specifically.
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21 May
This this this this this this.

I literally didn't understand that I was allowed to "just have an opinion" and I thought when people asked me that, they wanted factual information,

cause they couldn't possibly think I was supposed to have good independent valid thoughts..
I would basically just agree with everyone when I didn't agree because I knew that if I said I didn't agree, in my own way, I would be told I was complaining..
Also I think fawning in autistic people comes from constantly worrying that you're going to get in trouble for things that you shouldn't be in trouble for (being autistic) -

"Fawning is a strategy we unconsciously learn to get ourselves out of trouble"
amp.mindbodygreen.com/articles/the-f…?
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17 May
TW ABA, abuse, torture

I am actually going to break down this journal article.

And explain why it's actually even worse than I thought originally.

1/25
The parent of the autistic person explained to the ABA therapists that her autistic teen has meltdowns when listening to loud noises and specific noises.

Instead of just believing her, or just observing the teen,

they put him in a room..
2/25
TW torture

And they played different noises to him that were assumed to upset him. They played 5 minutes of noises, different volumes of 55, 75, or 85 dB SPL (which is loud for NTs). Including babies crying, dogs barking, fireworks, sirens, and thunder.
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