Multi-Sensory Environments Are No Joy When You’re Autistic

Christmas is the season for sensory overload

Jae L
6 min readDec 12, 2022

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Photo by Heidi Fin on Unsplash

I recently wrote an article about ‘quiet hour’, an initiative in Australia (and probably other countries) where supermarkets and other public venues provide a low sensory environment for an hour a week. Some are providing it more frequently in December as a salve to the pre-Christmas madness.

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Jae L

Queer, neurodivergent and in the business of defying expectations. Doing my best to answer the questions I keep asking myself. diverge999@gmail.com