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Autism Awareness Music T-Shirts by Alien Loud

Alien Loud is celebrating autism awareness within the music industry with premium t-shirts of aliens wearing headphones (what else could be fresher?).  While 'daily shirts' are always being offered, take advantage of limited edition screen printing shirts to make the most of Alien Loud's unique clothing-line.  Learn more about autism awareness and why shop Alien Loud.

What is Autism Awareness?

Autism Awareness is normally referred towards the month of April, where it's globally recognised to 'raise awareness'.  To show support throughout the whole year, people may wear blue or display the infamous "Puzzle Piece" (the puzzle piece signifies the autistic mind and how we think - still being a mystery to health professionals).  Is awareness necessarily?  Yes, as mentioned in the article, autism affects every host differently.  You may have a family member, friend, co-worker or spouse/partner on the spectrum and not even know it.

“If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism.” - Dr. Stephen Shore

What Are Autistic Traits?

Autism affect every host or person differently.  Some of us may be really good with mathematics while others might be very athletic or have excellent writing skills.  There are many traits or conditions that affect a person on the autism spectrum, below are a few that are identified within myself.

• Insistence on sameness; resistance to change
  • This goes for food, clothes, activities and daily/weekly/month routines etc...
• Difficulty in expressing needs; uses gestures or pointing instead of words
  • ​​​Some of us just find it hard to ask for help or explain why/how something is bothering us.
• Repeating words or phrases in place of normal, responsive language
  • I like to refer these as glitches.  This is where I trip on certain word or repeat a word over with unusual accents or changing how the word is pronounced.  This can happen when I am thinking alone or at anytime talking to someone.  Sometimes it can sound like just a bunch of gibberish.
• Laughing, crying, showing distress for reasons not apparent to others
  • We see the world differently.  We feel the world differently, too.
• Prefers to be alone; aloof manner
  • Just me, myself and I!  Being around people is exhausting and painful.
• Meltdowns or Shutdowns - "Tantrums "
  • They are NOT tantrums, but called Meltdowns or Shutdowns.  Tantrums are what children do when they ask for a candybar and the parent says no.  They yell or cry, maybe drop on the ground and kick their feet... this is because they want something they can't have.  Autism "tantrums" are usually meltdowns.  Meltdowns happen anytime/anywhere.  Most meltdowns are displayed with rocking, being figative, tapping or flopping arms.  Some meltdowns can look painful as the autistic person will start to hit themselves.  This is actually a coping method and helps calm what's happening inside us.  Shutdowns are basically as the word is pronounced.  By shutting off or minds, our body pretty much does the same and we might look like a statue and even become unresponsive.  Trust us, we are in a calming place and soon will return to the real world.
• Difficulty in mixing with others
  • One of the main reason Alien Loud was born!
• Little or no eye contact
  • Eyes are painful to look at.  It's like looking at someones soul and their screaming at you for no reason.  Looking at the nose is better, plus it appears to look as a normal person does looking at eyes when someone talks to you.
• Apparent over-sensitivity or under-sensitivity to touch/pain
  • I am a baby!  I tell me wife all the time to remember, "I am a fragile flower!"  While some of us are bothered by the air blowing by our skin, others can have their hand on fire and not know it.
• No real fears of danger
  • I did a lot of stunts when I was younger.  I think skydiving is the only thing left to try?  Who's with me!?
• Uneven or very fine motor skills
  • While some of use are mathematical wizards or fantastic painters others are very good in athletics.
• Not responsive to verbal cues; acts as if deaf.
  • At times, too much information gets digested at once and while we are hard at work structuring a way to process this information, we tend to "zone out" the rest of the world.  Also,  in some cases this is related towards a "Meltdown". 

Autism Within The Music Industry

Being a music producer (beatmaker) and autistic has been challenging.  Normally, a person in my position would be able to go out to the music clubs, college campuses, local bars and easily meet artists to work with or at the very least network and gain attention.  Unfortunately, being on the spectrum can limit some of those options.

Lights, sounds, background foley, people, colors and the list goes on... can all have an impact on autistics and easily can cause us to have a meltdown or shutdown.  This is hard to explain to an artist you just met and you are in the studio trying to create music with.  When people (artists) have doubts in your ability the less likely they will work with you.

It's a widespread joke about trap artists (who mumble rap) being autistic and even mumble rap autistic memes have surfaced across social networks making fun of autism.  These are people who have no idea what autism is or what it is being an autistic person.  Alien Loud celebrates autism awareness within the music industry.

Aliens and Headphones

Like most autistic people, I grew up always thinking that I was an alien or some humanoid from another planet.  Everyone just acted differently than I did and I always observed and tried to act just like them because I didn't want anyone to find out I was different.

Fascinated with ' Earth, Space and Science ', I thought if I could master the minerals and geology/star mapping that my mission on Earth with all these ' weird people ' would be over and my real family would come get me and take me away.  I finally gave up on that mission in high school.

​Headphones become a lifesaver in middle school, high school and even today.  Headphones help autistic people reduce the information being sent to our brains.  Without all that crazy (normal to non-autistics) background noise we can adjust that attention towards sight or just feel a little more relaxed.

Having headphones on also is a great way to help autistic people to not deal with interactions of other people when we don't want to be bothered.  Unexpected interactions with people can throw us off and make us deal with a lot of anxiety or mental pains throughout the day/week. 

Alien Loud T-Shirts

In the 1960's parents thought a puzzle piece was the best way to label their children.  Because of the way autistic people think and act and also due doctors not knowing how one becomes autistic, everyone agreed.  There are a few groups of us autistic people who find the autism puzzle piece a little "over played" or misused.  Why can't autistic people (some who are really great artists) create our own logo?  ...We at Alien Loud are pleased to do so!

Alien Loud creates Daily Shirts which can be ordered anytime.  These are shirts that can be kept in your daily rotation (to wear anytime).  On the other hand, our Limited Shirts offers our more unique approach to celebrate autism awareness within the music industry.  Free shipping for you and a friend!

Alien Loud autism awareness music t-shirts are a great way to spread awareness and make awesome gift ideas for mothers, dads, brothers, friends and all humans alike.  That's why we offer free shipping for you and a friend or two shirts for yourself. ?

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