What is silence to you?
Is silence the absence of noise?
Do you like silence?
As a HSP or Highly Sensitive Person who also has SPD or Sensory Processing Disorder, 🦋 like silence. Excessive noise upsets 🦋 and beyond certain levels can cause 🦋 to have a sensory overload or meltdown.
When 🦋 has a sensory overload or meltdown, 🦋 is not in control of myself as the part of my brain known as the amygdala has seized control. 🦋 can become violent and engage in self harm like hitting myself or banging my head hard against a wall or the ground.
We all have seen children lying on the ground in public places screaming, crying and arms/legs thumping the ground. Some 👬👫 think that such children are spoiled brats throwing a temper.
The children you see doing the above may be someone on the autism spectrum who is having a sensory overload or meltdown.
The environment has gone awry or is spinning around to the child. Lying on the ground (a practice referred to as grounding provide a bit of relief or stability to the child.
🦋 can concentrate best when there is complete silence or by closing my eyes so that my brain do not have to process so much stimuli at a time. This is why 🦋 like working during the middle of the night or when there is no one at home.
Solitude and silence helps 🦋 to recharge.
The type of silence that 🦋 do not like is not the absence of noise but the presence of what Simon & Garfunkel call talking without speaking and listening without hearing. Meaningless, insincere talking and "listening" yet not absorbing or hearing anything
If you give to 🦋, that type of silence, 🦋 may respond with another type of silence.
A silence of an absent 🦋 that do not talk.