hey #Germany so my autistic child's school is tripling down on not let her wear noise-cancelling headphones despite the fact that her class is super noisy, nobody cares.
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hey #Germany so my autistic child's school is tripling down on not let her wear noise-cancelling headphones despite the fact that her class is super noisy, nobody cares.
questions in order of urgency:
1. Do you recommend any discreet earplugs and where do I get them?
2. Even without a formal autism diagnosis, is it doable to get a random therapist or something to write a piece of paper that proves that my child is not making up stuff when she says that the class noise brings her to breakdown?
3. I know this is the hell country of infinite bureaucracy, but is there any reasonable way to get the dang formal diagnosis, on public insurance, without waiting until she's like out of university for the first appointment? Kid is 17, not fluent in German, and has a typical 'autism in girls' presentation (by which I mean, not the 'autistic' sterotype that uninformed doctors expect).
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to elilla& last edited by [email protected]
@elilla Threaten to give her "gun range headphones".
This sort of thing is a real thing. They don't (necessarily) have electronics in them, and reduce noise passively by some 20–30 dB; the reduction is stronger at higher frequencies. They're not necessarily tied to guns; pretty much the same things, possibly with cosmetic differences, are also commonly used in noisy construction work places and factories.
But beyond it being functional, mentioning anything about a "gun range" might make the school's nosey authorities sufficiently frightened to consult a lawyer, who, hopefully, tells them that they're in the wrong.
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Riley S. Faelan last edited by
@elilla As for (2), autism diagnosis seems to be silly hard to get in Germany. But if you ask for a referral to an audiologist, a diagnosis of auditory oversensitivity or overexcitability might be a matter of some measurement over just two or three appointments. A more experienced GP might even be willing to run the measurement themselves, and then write a short letter to the school.
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Riley S. Faelan last edited by [email protected]
@elilla I know that Germany's schools aren't quite as much into religious headwear as USA's schools, but I'm sure some friendly Discordian pope or mome would be willing to write her a [pmx]atriarch's note explaining why it's absolutely religiously necessary for her to wear a good ANC headset on her head while in a sinfully noisy school.