Hi.
I’m in the process of diagnosis for Autism and I’m reading up as much as I can on it, and have come across a lot of people talking about Highly Sensitive Persons / Sensory Processing Syndrome.
I read this link:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-highly-sensitive-child/202112/no-being-autistic-is-not-the-same-being-highly-sensitive
But it seems to me to basically sum up to:
There’s too many HSP to be autists.
The diagnosis of autism seems to be widening it’s criterias from the classic “white male child” tropes, yet still takes a firm stance away from HSP/SPS.
Why can HSP not be a subset of Autism?
They express that it can be comorbid with Autism, does that mean that every autistic person with sensory processing issues has SPS?
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Autism is a broad spectrum of symptoms, one of which is hypersensitivity, but another of which is hyposensitivity, being particularly insensitive to stimulus. There are also a bunch of other symptoms which may or may not be present in folks on the spectrum unrelated to sensitivity.
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