#advertising that is designed to grab NT attention is inadvertently designed to harm #autistic and #ADHD folk. We don't have the same perceptual filters as NTs. That stupid little jingle, someone screaming, the alarm clock ringing, the police siren, or the intentionally grating voice that can get an NT person to notice an ad – that can effectively wreck us and make us turn off the program. Shifting gears from actively listening to actively defending against attention assaults is really hard and upsetting. I can't count how many times I've been listenting to a live stream and turned it off because of a terrible ad and forgot I was listening and never heard the end. And playing the same ad a dozen times an hour is just plain cruel. I have abandoned entire platforms over that, and I'm sure I will again.