> Like, _why_ is that kid throwing a massive meltdown? Has anyone helped them to work out their triggers? Is it something as simple as: overhead fluorescent lig

> Like, _why_ is that kid throwing a massive meltdown? Has anyone helped them to work out their triggers? Is it something as simple as: overhead fluorescent lighting, or the area is too busy with sounds? I don't have a diagnosis now, but was diagnosed with ADHD as a child (and I actually think I might have mild autism), but this question here made me consider something in a new light. I have extremely acute hearing, even now as a middle-aged adult. Something I find highly annoying is the buzzing sound that some transformers make, and primarily flyback transformers which were common in CRT televisions. I always used to have worse experiences as a child when I was forced to be in the room with a TV and strongly preferred rooms with no TVs in them. I managed to use computers, but was very picky about monitors because of this (I would only own Sony Trinitron because they didn't buzz where I could hear them). It was so impactful that I avoided television as a rule and basically didn't watch TV growing up, and while I now own a TV as an adult, I still don't watch TV shows and I avoid the room that it's in unless I have a specific reason to be there. I think it would have helped immensely if I could have gotten away from that as a child, but at the time I didn't know that was one of the things bothering me. I ended up naturally avoiding it, anyway, which is why I spent so much time in the library. As a side note, similarly, I am very sensitive to out of spec ballasts on fluorescent lighting because it buzzes as well. And I can hear the buzzing of transformers sometimes on power lines (maybe this is why I always liked Serial Experiments Lain).