 As an autistic person, I find notifications to be incredibly stressful and I shut them off whenever I can. What’s just as infuriating is that stupid red dot with the number in it. That one makes me tear my hair out. Sometimes people get angry that they can’t a hold of me, but the consistency of a working routine is too important. 11 comments
By the way, every autistic person’s experiences are different. Some autistic people hate loud music. I thrive with it. Some autistic people don’t mind notifications, but I do. Hence why it’s a spectrum.  @atomicpoet I don't know if or what I could be diagnosed with, but if I couldn't turn off alerts, I'd throw my computer out the window. Same with the red dots and loud music. "Normal" is highly over-rated, and for many it seems to be how much peer pressure affects a person's tolerance to many things, as many are afraid of being seen as different. @atomicpoet lol this viewpoint is always hilarious to hear. People are different, can you imagine!?! Ps not high scoring on self assessments, but I too hate over notification from some apps @atomicpoet I hate notifications because I feel compelled to read and respond to them first. Even if I’m in the middle of something. Same with unread email. I like noise of some kind on all the time, but it’s specific, almost ritualistic what I listen to and no music, only words after 6pm. Like caffeine. <g> Ain’t the spectrum fascinating. @atomicpoet I always think of autism as an umbrella term covering various degrees of varying neurodivergencies. And as it's a spectrum we are all of us on it somewhere. ❤️  @atomicpoet +9001% I explicitly refuse to use shitmessengers like #WhatsApp, #Teams and #Slack and shitty Videoconferencing crap like #GoogleMeet, #Zoom, #WebEx and [again] #MicrosoftTeams because they are neither productive nor helpful at all since they have neither threading nor searchability. If anyone has an actually urgent matter, they can call me anytime. Also most Neurotypicals purposefully choose to misinterpret lack of interaction with disliking or even hate.  @atomicpoet i agree, i turn them off mostly, where i can. I do find there is a correlation between the usefulness of the notification and whether i turn it off, for example, Facebook notifications went straight off, because they don’t relate to what i had any interest; jira notifications stay on because I actually need to know about each of them  @atomicpoet I hate Teams with a passion but one thing I don't mind is the fact that it doesn't have that weird, annoying clicky thing Slack has. Somehow, I find Slack's version even more stressful than 'bing!'. But the red can f off. @atomicpoet I only turn on notifications when they provide some use to *me*, and even then I make most of them go to the notification area and stay there until I'm ready to check them. I don't allow badges at all, I don't need to know how many unread messages I have, I'll clear them when I'm good and ready. |
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@atomicpoet No one should ever be at the constant beck and call of others.