{"id":3314,"date":"2020-02-23T09:24:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T07:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.peoplefirst.hu\/blog-post\/why-campaign-10th-why-are-quiet-hours-a-good-thing\/"},"modified":"2023-10-21T00:21:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T22:21:22","slug":"why-campaign-10th-why-are-quiet-hours-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"blog_post","link":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/blog-post\/why-campaign-10th-why-are-quiet-hours-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY campaign 10th: WHY are \u201eQuiet Hours\u201d a good thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The so called \u201equiet hours\u201d, better known as Autism Hours is a movement, to provide autism-friendly\u00a0<\/span>shopping experience and promotes the acceptance of autistics. There are also more and more autism-<\/span>friendly events arranged, like concerts, theater performances, movie screenings.\u00a0<\/span>Some of the main appeals are dimmed lights, toned down music and audible warnings (if there are any) in\u00a0<\/span>order to reduce sensory input, what is quite desirable for the target audience: autistics, their loved ones,\u00a0<\/span>their caretakers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many autistics have sensory processing differences: our senses have to take in everything, what is visible,\u00a0<\/span>audible, touchable, or can be tasted, smelt, without a filter \u2013 we are on a concert of senses with the\u00a0<\/span>maximum volume on, each and every day.\u00a0<\/span>Moreover, there are also a bunch of unexpected events: someome touches you, comes very close to you,\u00a0<\/span>seeking or even forcing eyecontact while talking to you, the annoying music is interrupted with messages\u00a0<\/span>to the customers or the employees. A baby starts to cry, than another… some terrifyingly loud phones,\u00a0<\/span>bells are ringing beside the beeps of scanners, cash registers.\u00a0<\/span>At the self-checkout, someone did something incorrectly, so this machine also goes off with beeps, lights,\u00a0<\/span>etc…<\/span><\/p>\n

Did you ever shop like an autistic?\u00a0<\/span>Have a try, here is a great visual thanks to the YouTube user \u201estreamofawareness\u201d:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IcS2VUoe12M\u00a0 \u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Horrible quality, isn`t it? The hurricane of sounds, the brittled image…\u00a0<\/span>All of this is on purpose: it is a very good simulation of what an autistic person has to endure now and\u00a0<\/span>then, for example when shopping.\u00a0<\/span>To do the usually easy-peasy grocery round with an overloaded nervous system is actually a very hard\u00a0<\/span>job, so we often decide to interrupt our shopping\/partaking in an event and we flee on our own or with\u00a0<\/span>assistance…<\/span><\/p>\n

For similar reasons, a walk in a zoo, going to a concert, to watch a movie or to wait in different\u00a0<\/span>institutions can give a hard time for us.\u00a0<\/span>There are other obstacles autistics and their assistance have to overcome in this noisy, confusing non-<\/span>autistic world: our behaviours, reactions differ from the usual, the typical and at the same time many\u00a0<\/span>misconceptions about autism are out there \u2013 this is often generating fear, because of this we, our chaperon\u00a0<\/span>might get insulted, even assaulted.<\/span><\/p>\n

Autism Hours make these events, experiences enjoyable or at least less uncomfortable to autistics, and\u00a0<\/span>promotes autism acceptance. We won`t get gawked on when we avoid eyecontact or are wearing hearing\u00a0<\/span>protection, tinted glasses, or might behave autipycally, for instance when we are rocking, making sounds,\u00a0<\/span>flap our hands.\u00a0<\/span>With the help of a properly trained staff, even an overload or a meltdown can be easier to deal with: they\u00a0<\/span>can call our chaperon or they can walk us to a safe place.<\/span><\/p>\n

An interesting side effect of Autism Hours is, that not only autistics are enjoying the concept and the\u00a0<\/span>opportunity of a silent event.<\/span><\/p>\n

Want to know more about autism? Check out these links:<\/span><\/p>\n

www.facebook.com\/autisticnotweird\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/autisticnotweird.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC9Bk0GbW8xgvTgQlheNG5uw<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.autism.org.uk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

www.autisticadvocacy.org<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to our association member “Anthea Aspie” for the\u00a0sensual description!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many of autistic people are sensory hypersensitive, for filterless experiences in particular. But this initiative is also enjoyed by non-autistics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"blog-category":[8],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_post\/3314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"blog-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplefirst.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog-category?post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}