Translations:Sensory-Friendly Environments/5/en

The effects are cumulative rather than immediate. A conversation held over loud background music may be manageable for twenty minutes and exhausting after an hour. Overhead lighting that seems unremarkable at first can produce headache or disorientation across an evening. Community experience suggests that people frequently leave gatherings earlier than they intended without being able to explain why, and that sensory load is often the unnamed factor.