Eric Ravenscraft’s look at reaching the limits of our ability to process information has more language I’d find useful in an autistic context—or, rather, in communicating to other people about various experiences of being autistic. To wit: our environment feeling “like a mental DDoS attack that drags down our mental health, allows misinformation to thrive, and even makes the job of delivering news more difficult”. Pair with this earlier thing about cognitive exhaustion.