Eating Ants Linked to Autism

Eating Ants Linked to Autism

83-year-old with autism last to get Civil War benefits

Pictured: America's last living link to the Civil War is an 83-year-old woman with autism whose father fought with both the Unionists and Confederates | Mail Online

Irene Triplett, who suffers from autism, was born into rural poverty in North Carolina

She receives $876 a year from the government as thanks for her father taking part in the war which ended 148 years ago

Father Moses Triplett was 83 when she was born and fought first for the Confederates and then the Unionists during the war

Unable to look after herself, Irene has spent the past 60 years living in a facility and is no longer visited by relatives

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Auti-sim: First Person Sensory Overload Simulator

Auti-sim lets you experience the horror of sensory overload | Ars Technica

You stand in a dirt field under a beautiful blue sky. A few meters away, a group of kids are shrieking and playing happily on a jungle gym. As you walk forward, though, you notice the kids are actually faceless statues, staring blankly back at you. Their shrieking gets almost deafeningly loud as you approach, layered on top of monotone schoolyard rhymes and songs. The idyllic visuals start to get fuzzy, too, like the world is caught between reality and the static on a dead analog TV station. Your only relief is to quickly retreat back to the safety of your starting place. 

It might sound like a new horror game, but the experience above actually describes Auti-sim, a small but thought-provoking first-person indie game about hypersensitivity in autistic children. The game was recently created by a team of three during Vancouver's Hacking Health weekend hackathon. Besides being one of the creepiest indie "short subjects" you'll play this year, the game also gives players a brief glimpse into what it's like for the millions of autistic children suffering from sensory overload issues.