Sensory hyperacuity and stress

• “At home when we had no fans on, now my body was much more comfortable so I was more relaxed and alert, with fewer odd movements. However, in other places, especially in busy environments with forced air-heating or cooling and other small motor noises such as computers, I was often distressed, and my behavior was rather erratic and even slightly threatening towards people whose speech I still found confusing . . .”

• Lucy Blackman, Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone, p. 166