What is a sensory overload for an autistic person? How does it affect them and their ability to function?

Question

I understand that they get them but what happens exactly to them?

In: Biology

Answer 1

I’m not on the spectrum, but my grandson is, and he once explained to me that it sometimes seemed to him that what he was experiencing was like watching and listening to a TV that is continuously scrolling up and down, through all the dozens of channels — and his remote is broken.