Autistic Hedgehog
RSSDear Autistic Hedgehog, I have many issues that at first I thought were social anxiety, but my chemistry teacher thinks may be autism. I am overstimulated by lights and sounds around me and can't follow conversations without taking time to process them in my head. everything is sharp and loud and I don't like being touched by people because it feels like I'm on fire. I have mild OCD and try to withdraw by stimming. My mom doesn't think I'm autistic. But I wonder if I should see someone about it?
Anonymous
Autism has a range of symptoms, including the ones you’ve described, and not every autistic person has all of them. But there are also other disorders that can have very similar symptoms.
While I’m not in any way, shape or form a doctor and maybe not the person to be giving out medical advice, it does sound like your symptoms are extreme and disruptive enough that you should talk to someone about it. Even if it’s not autism, it might be something else that you could get treatment and/or support for. It sounds bad enough that I don’t think you should write it off as social anxiety.
You may also want to try doing some reading, checking out some blogs of autistic people here on tumblr.
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