Ming explains sensory meltdowns as overwhelming reactions to environmental inputs, common in autistic children. A child might grimace at a knife hitting a plate, recoil from certain textures, or try to escape the stimulus. Caregivers often have different sensory thresholds, missing what's actually bothering the child.
Sensory meltdown happens when there's too much and it's too irritating for a person. And for us who are caregivers, who are teaching speech to LA children or people on the spectrum, is that sometimes our sensory profiles are very different. I might be less sensitive to certain inputs for myself. Like, I've seen children who, if you by accident, brush a certain texture on their hand, the skin just stands up, right? All the hairs just stand up and everything. The second thing is when you see people who are sensory overloaded, you will see that they will start to give you, like, a facial grimace, you know, like when the knife hits the plate, like. Like that. A lot of people will just try to, you know, go away from that stimulus, right?
