COLOUR AND AUTISM
ASD children and adults tend to have heightened senses. Sights, sounds, smells, touch, sunlight, changes in barometric pressure, and--you guessed it--color, can have various pronounced effects on people with autism.
It’s been theorized that people with ASD may have higher sensitivity to color differentiation than non-autistic people. This explains how subtle differences in a color’s hue can affect people with autism. As someone who spends her days creating color palettes and deciphering the minute differences between hues, I’m enthralled with exploring the color abilities of people with autism. This heightened sense of color comes as no surprise, considering research which suggests that people diagnosed with ASD interpret sensory experiences with greater intensity than their neuro-ordinary peers. In other words, for people with autism, sounds are louder, touch is more acute, smells are stronger, lights are more glaring, and colors are more colorful.
Researchers have found that autistic children’s rods and cones (components of the eye) vary from the non-autistic child’s due to chemical imbalances or neural deficiencies. Colors appear more vibrant to autistic children. Of the autistic children tested, 85% saw colors with greater intensity than non-autistic children.
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