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Resonates with my own autistic experience as well. I can't recall where, but I believe Aella identified somewhere that she is autistic. But I understand wanting to tease out if it's something else since autism is comorbid with so many different things.

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I haven't been diagnosed autistic but have had a lot of people tell me I am. My main hesitation around it is I don't seem to have quite the same level of sensory issues; while I am sometimes sensitive, usually I can tune out repetitive noises pretty well.

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I mostly have 'episodes' of sensitivity, where sound and light and everything becomes bad and i have to retreat. I have a STRONG preference for comfortable clothes. But for example one of my lights emits a high pitched whining which bothers me less than it has others.

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@TimothyChutes

Apr 5, 2020

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Do you notice the stimulus before it goes bad (if it does at all)? While my sensitivity has some fluctuation, what fluctuates far more is how much it bothers me. But I definitely notice stimuli most others don't.

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I've learned to notice it but typically don't, I think I disassociate or tune it out and then get confused why I'm feeling super sensitive. Sometimes it doesn't even take loud stimuli to make me sensitive, can happen after riding in a car or having normal conversatio with someone

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@TimothyChutes

Apr 5, 2020

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This still jives, not that I'm trying to convince you of anything. Just sharing. It's more the context of the stimuli than the objective intensity (loud/bright/coarse/etc.). Exact same hum won't bother me in an already noisy room vs otherwise quiet one. (cont.)

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Or if I'm slightly approaching being over stimulated in other ways, such a light sensitivity, the hum could trigger me. A lot of small things that wouldn't overload me on their own can accumulate too.

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My dad definitely has full blown aspergers so I grew up knowing exactly the stimuli that would set him off, and it's very much like what you describe. We switched out our glass table for a wooden one because of clanks, and he had a lot of trouble in larger crowds.

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I'm mostly suspicious of my own sensitivity because I know what actual aspergers is like and I know I don't have that; there's lots of ways in which I actually am more insensitive than average.

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@TimothyChutes

Apr 5, 2020

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Still learning so much about this & myself as it's a fresh discovery, so likely inaccurate. When I found out, parents read up on it; it all resonated with my dad except the sensitivity. He's actually hypo-sensitive to a lot of things. Know another seeking diagnosis who is as well