I seem to have got worse, but I have no idea why. I am 34 now, and it has really been over the last 3 years that I have become increasingly intolerant of sounds and smells and touch.
I don't know if it's becoming set in my ways or less willing to put up with things that make me uncomfortable or stressed, or if it's somehow possible for autism to get worse with age.
I did also have digestive issues and problems with my microbiome over the same time period, which I know has been implicated with autism, but I thought that autism is a childhood developmental disease rather than something that can change during adulthood.
I think lockdown has also changed things for me. Yesterday I took public transport into the city centre and I found the whole ordeal unbearable. I can't believe that I used to commute every day to work, and I genuinely do not think I would be capable of it now. On the other hand, I was suffering from very serious burnout back then and wanting to kill myself, so perhaps I wasn't dealing with it very well, I was just forced into doing it.
I seem to have got worse, but I have no idea why. I am 34 now, and it has really been over the last 3 years that I have become increasingly intolerant of sounds and smells and touch.
I don't know if it's becoming set in my ways or less willing to put up with things that make me uncomfortable or stressed, or if it's somehow possible for autism to get worse with age.
I did also have digestive issues and problems with my microbiome over the same time period, which I know has been implicated with autism, but I thought that autism is a childhood developmental disease rather than something that can change during adulthood.
I think lockdown has also changed things for me. Yesterday I took public transport into the city centre and I found the whole ordeal unbearable. I can't believe that I used to commute every day to work, and I genuinely do not think I would be capable of it now. On the other hand, I was suffering from very serious burnout back then and wanting to kill myself, so perhaps I wasn't dealing with it very well, I was just forced into doing it.
