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

Many autistic people see the world in more detail than the rest of the population, than means they are registering more things each second and being aware of those things than the average person. When there is suddenly too much noise moving objects etc. they are then unable to process all than information at the same time and can feel overloaded and overwhelmed by too much information at once and try to “defend” themselves from the excessive input. https://youtu.be/iSJ9tEzgoPg