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Highly Sensitive Person and Autism

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over 3 years ago

About 10 years ago, I discovered the trait called Highly Sensitive Person:

Description here: https://hsperson.com/

I took the test back then, and discovered I was Highly Sensitive. Some of the features are: 

  • easily overwhelmed by such things as bright lights, strong smells, coarse fabrics, or sirens
  • gets rattled when you have a lot to do in a short amount of time
  • needs to withdraw during busy days, into bed or a darkened room or some other place where you can have privacy and relief from the situation
  • has a rich and complex inner life
  • your parents or teachers saw you as sensitive or shy

I bought the Highly Sensitive Person handbook and it was like getting 'the handbook for how I function'. I should read it again tbh.

So recently I was diagnosed as autistic, as you know, and it just occurred to me that these features would fit an autistic person as well. I wondered if I could be HSP *and* autistic. Or maybe I'm one or the other, not both- maybe one has been mistaken for the other? What do you think?

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  • over 3 years ago

    Hi, I had this same thought only a few days ago and the answer that came to me was this - yes, we are highly sensitive beings which has strong similarities/crossovers with autism; however, for me anyway, I see the highly sensitive part of me as directly related to my ‘true self’ and the autism part is more like the physical aspect of me, the part where I’m neurologically wired differently to most people, the part that my highly sensitive self/true self works through. So it is helpful to me to understand myself through the framework of autism when thinking about my physical being, including sensitivity’s to sounds etc and to understand my highly sensitive nature as being my true self which is naturally sensitive to the things of this world because it isn’t of this world, it’s in the world but it’s source is of a higher dimension. 

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