Intimacy Freeze Sensory Overload

Definition

Autistic sensory and social overload: relational input arrives loudly and the body floods with more signal than it can metabolize, so receiving shuts as a protective circuit-breaker rather than from avoidant deactivation or mistrust. Distinct from Approach Avoid and Receptivity Shut (attachment strategies, no sensory flooding), Closeness Alarm (conditioned threat, not capacity overload), and the betrayal-guarded form (injury-specific vigilance, not overwhelm).

Glossary source /cascades/Intimacy Freeze/variants/@label=intimacy-freeze-sensory-overload/reason

Orthography

case

capitalized-always

evidence

ordinary

Usage

do not use for

The parent cascade, a reusable global diagnosis, or a variant attached to a different cascade.

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use when

Naming a reviewed presentation that is a child of exactly one parent cascade.

Relationships and lifecycle

Parents

• cascade.intimacy-freeze