One more here. I'm quite prone to get awful migraines on those situations of "sensorial overload". Though I'm often able to keep them at large with medication and some natural means, it would be very nice to have some quiet place to rest for a while, at least when our hotel room is not available.
I can very well understand what dodocurieux endures regarding what can be perceived as invasive behavior, especially that one that are part of those tricks(?) that are often used to make people socialize with each other in those kind of events, such as the games he describes. Those "rituals of initiation" may be fun, or at least endurable by many people, but there should be the good sense and care to inform people beforehand that some specific event may include that, or at least ask people before if it's OK to go on.
All the best,
Paulo
Yaroslav Blanter [email protected] escreveu no dia quarta, 15/08/2018 à(s) 17:32:
Thanks Romaine for sharing. As someone at the same side of the spectrum (I get quickly tired in the places where a lot of people are gathering) I can fully endorse this.
Cheers Yaroslav
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 5:42 PM Romaine Wiki [email protected] wrote:
Hi everyone,
In our movement we have a lot of different people, including people with
a
different neurodiversity.
Then it can happen that with events organised by the Wikimedia movement, there are people that get sensory overloads. it basically means that the input through the senses gets too much at some point. This can result in
an
emotional outburst, an instant heavy headache/migraine attack, or in my case I go (almost) completely blank.
It is really hard to complain how it is like to people who have no experiences with it. I think however that we need as inclusive movement to be more aware of
the
huge amount of varieties of people and there needs. For that reason I
like
to share a thread on Twitter with you how a user I know well has experienced it herself.
Read at: https://twitter.com/dodocurieux/status/1029743772584865792
Thank you!
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