OK, so you know how it has been hell in the gym. They are playing that screeching music loud, so loud it drowns out your ipod. After being there, I felt like I wanted to scream and once I hit sensory overload WHILE THERE and melted down. remember, this was my safe place so it's extra horrible for me. Part of my routine and safe!! Not now.
So I contacted the CEO and branch manager and spilled my guts with a very well put together letter which was not slamming or raving. It explained I have a head injury with neuro sequelae predicated on autism and explained that the trouble with sensory over load extends to and other neuro disorders. And the eldery generally have a trouble with that crap.
I then asked if it would be possible to offer quiet times for those who cannot tolerate that constant bombardment of music that can throw us into sensory overload. I mentioned how many cases of head injuries a year and how there are increasing cases of autism.
I also offered, if they did this, to be a voice for that program and contact places like the autism societies nearby, elderly centres, brain injury centres and even military organizations which may have people dealing with mtbis. In short, I offered my help to make it a success.
Now I feel vulnerable but I also feel I did the right thing. I do not think I should be ashamed for my troubles. maybe they should be for being thoughtless when not one person there was without their own music to DROWN THAT CRAP OUT.
Anyway, do you guys think I did the right thing? I hear that many of you would find that music intolerable as well. But I also hear that a lot of you would rather have bad music than no music, so I am not sure I represented us as accurate as I thought. So now I just feel like I am outvoted and have to move back to a place I hated to get to the other gym which is quiet.
The environment of this place has TOTALLY changed. It was a peaceful place and now it's like a madhouse, all edgy, people grabbing at the weights, no more being polite because no one can hear you now. People used to talk and say HI and some even shared about their life, their faiths, their families.
Now it's "Get the F outta my way buddy. You got the 30lb weight! Hurry the F up"
<sigh> Would love feedback.
So I contacted the CEO and branch manager and spilled my guts with a very well put together letter which was not slamming or raving. It explained I have a head injury with neuro sequelae predicated on autism and explained that the trouble with sensory over load extends to and other neuro disorders. And the eldery generally have a trouble with that crap.
I then asked if it would be possible to offer quiet times for those who cannot tolerate that constant bombardment of music that can throw us into sensory overload. I mentioned how many cases of head injuries a year and how there are increasing cases of autism.
I also offered, if they did this, to be a voice for that program and contact places like the autism societies nearby, elderly centres, brain injury centres and even military organizations which may have people dealing with mtbis. In short, I offered my help to make it a success.
Now I feel vulnerable but I also feel I did the right thing. I do not think I should be ashamed for my troubles. maybe they should be for being thoughtless when not one person there was without their own music to DROWN THAT CRAP OUT.
Anyway, do you guys think I did the right thing? I hear that many of you would find that music intolerable as well. But I also hear that a lot of you would rather have bad music than no music, so I am not sure I represented us as accurate as I thought. So now I just feel like I am outvoted and have to move back to a place I hated to get to the other gym which is quiet.
The environment of this place has TOTALLY changed. It was a peaceful place and now it's like a madhouse, all edgy, people grabbing at the weights, no more being polite because no one can hear you now. People used to talk and say HI and some even shared about their life, their faiths, their families.
Now it's "Get the F outta my way buddy. You got the 30lb weight! Hurry the F up"
<sigh> Would love feedback.