Its annoying to normies.

It causes more or less significant to extreme mental and physical anguish to many autists.

Many autists have basically heightened levels of awareness with one or many of their physical senses, as compared to non autists.

Like, I frequently notice minor visual details in the world around me, that most other people completely miss, tell me I’m lying when I say I saw them, then they go check and are angry that I was right.

Same thing with heightened sensitivity to bright light, as well as extreme repulsion from certain color palettes.

Or, same kind of thing with sounds. Myself, a lot of other autistic people get extremely irritated by low intensity, but perisistent sounds that are either very high or very low frequency … that most people don’t notice untill you tell them to stop and focus, then, they can hear them.

But for autists it is… sometimes literally so annoying it will drive you mad. It causes actual pain from how stressed it makes you.

Its why autists and noise canceling headphones are a thing.

Most ‘ASMR’ videos?

I’d rather run into brick wall at 20 mph.

ASMR is a thing, but, as a genre of content, its largely a bunch of idiots making the most annoying and aggravating sounds possible, and acting like its soothing.

tl:dr; yeah, its not an autistic only thing, but something like this is fucking kryptonite to autists.