i’ve been reading about personality disorders and I feel like a lot of the symptoms fit autism as well. both have a rigid and “unhealthy” patterns of thinking, functioning and behaving, troubles perceiving and relating to situations and people, the early age of onset, both are pernament
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Many autism spectrum people also have sensory integration issues. The brain has difficulty interpreting if sound, light, smells, taste, or touch signals are “too loud” or “too quiet”. What may be quiet to you is an overload of input to the autistic. Establishing a pattern of routines or limiting exposure to sensory input helps to regulate this.
Autism can still be empathic but like the senses, the brain doesn’t know how to handle all that extra information. It becomes easier to avoid eye contact, talk too much or too little, appear hyperactive or extremely quiet. The brain doesn’t know how to adjust the limits on what it receives. Imagine a music stereo but every time you adjust the volume for your favorite song, the volume is either 0 or 11 with no in between.
The personality of the autistic can come from trying to compensate for these integration levels. The reason autism is such a wide spectrum is because those internal controls vary from person to person. Too loud for one person is too quiet for someone else.
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