What is Autism Sensory Overload and how do you help it? This video is all about autism sensory overloads. Sensory overload in adults can occur at any point in an autistic persons life due to the unpredictable nature of autism. But sensory autism symptoms are quite similar as they are all based around the senses. An autistic person may not have all of the sensory issues present for every sense but, they may have just sensitivity to sign or sound etc. That being said, an autistic person can also b

3 things you might not know about sensory overload 1. If you experience sensory overload daily and it gets in the way of your ability to function... there is a condition called sensory processing disorder that might explain this. SPD has to do with brain wiring that takes in sensory information and doesn't know how to interpret it, so it either over responds or under responds to the sensory input. Not all sensory overload is SPD, but as I mentioned, if you experience it daily and it interferes w