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Toilet is home ?

autismtwo

Noticed an interesting cognitive correlation today, when I am in unfamiliar external territory, by bowels always act up and I feel the need to go home for safety and a bowel motion(being polite here) in safe zone i.e home to WC.

Has anyone else found this as an experience with autism.

 

  • good idea and good literal thinking silver Smile my little flower.. lol

  • 8 years ago I bought a small van so I could carry a portable toilet as I cannot even go into toilets other than my own. As for the bowel reaction it is a very common one for anyone who is anxious whether or not they are aware of feeling anxious. As crystal12 said that's where all those phrases come from.

    On a slight tangent when I was sent to a psychiatrist at age 13 he said to me "do you get butterflies in your tummy?" I said "no" and thought "how would they get in there?"

  • but "any"sensation on the bowels caused by tensing up is like a subconcious fear, it is a body strong trigger(which is probably not a strong signal in real terms)(the wind feels like a hurricane so to say).. the mind/body is saying " here we go again"... I flight even before the fear develops into real stress. Ultra-sensitive reaction, which I don't have any control off. It is chronic.

    You would think I was a coward, but my body and mind is so wired to a hyperviglient setting.

  • Hi - if you're feeling a bit anxious in unfamiliar territory then that could affect your digestive system.  It's well known.   Think of the well known phrases such as "butterflies in the tummy", "sick to the stomach", "my stomach turned over".  I read something somewhere a long time ago where the stomach, gut, etc were described as having a strong connection to the central nervous system.  I think most of us have had to hurry to the wc at some point in our lives because we were feeling worried or nervous.  I'm not sure it's got anything to do with autism per se, rather that some people on the spectrum my get anxious more easily or often.  I think anxious NTs would report something similar.