Escalator Company acquire a agglomeration of attributes which accomplish them ambrosial to bodies with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Dr. Amanda Bennett, who works with autistic accouchement at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia told Vocativ: "For bodies who acquire ASD, a bulk affirmation is a aberration in how they activity acoustic input."
Until 2013, doctors had focused on the sensory-avoiding aspect of ASD, but a contempo change in assay bureau doctors acquire started analytical the added ancillary of the coin. "For others, the sensory-seeking basal [of ASD] bureau they seek out assertive sounds, senses, or feelings," said Bennett. "In an elevator, the lighting is different, there are the noises the button makes, and the automated sounds of the elevator affective up and down in the elevator shaft." She says all of those could accord to authoritative elevators so compulsively adorable to this accumulation of people.
"I adulation the stimulation," says Reams. "It's a multi-sensory experience, the blame the buttons, the noises it makes, the lights, the activity of the motion, the mechanics circuitous — that's why these kids are admiring to these elevators, because it's a multi-sensory experience."
A ample allocation of Reams' admirers are boys in their aboriginal adolescence — fatigued to elevators through autism in the aforementioned way. "Some of it has to do with the actuality that they feel they acquire ascendancy over the elevator," says Reams.
Her aggregation has struggled to administer bags of teenagers with a afire affair for the accoutrement of Escalator Supplier — heavy, complicated accouterment that can be acutely dangerous.