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Aspie traits lessen when in a good mood

Laddo

Lately I've noticed that my aspie traits tend to dampen quite significantly when I'm in a good mood. Things like talking to strangers and making eye contact seem easy and not at all the massive chore they are when I'm not feeling my best. I find I have a lot more to add to conversations and quite energetic. Sometimes this will happen even if I'm in a fairly neutral mode. It's like mood swings but with autistic traits instead of moods. Is this normal in aspies? Or am I just a weirdo? I'm 23, in case it's at all relevant.

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  • Unfortunately sensory issues are treated by professionals as an "also ran"; marginal to the triad of impairments. So not enough is being done.

    Basically either your threshold for stress is lower than the non-autistic population, or there's a bottleneck that non-autistic people don't have (Digby Tantam at Sheffield University identifies this with a narrower bandwidth for processing information).

    So stress build up will decrease your ability to cope with social interaction and sensory issues.

    Conversely it should follow that if you are in a good mood, and not stressed, you will be better able to cope. So you will very likely find you can handle social interchange for longer without adverse effects.

    This needs more research, but the health professionals (and NAS) are so obsessed with the triad of impairments characteristics that sensory overload isn't researched much. Everyone just keeps adding it on at the end - "oh, by the way, some people experience sensory overload". I think most do in some shape or form, and it underpins the triad, rather than is marginal.

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  • Unfortunately sensory issues are treated by professionals as an "also ran"; marginal to the triad of impairments. So not enough is being done.

    Basically either your threshold for stress is lower than the non-autistic population, or there's a bottleneck that non-autistic people don't have (Digby Tantam at Sheffield University identifies this with a narrower bandwidth for processing information).

    So stress build up will decrease your ability to cope with social interaction and sensory issues.

    Conversely it should follow that if you are in a good mood, and not stressed, you will be better able to cope. So you will very likely find you can handle social interchange for longer without adverse effects.

    This needs more research, but the health professionals (and NAS) are so obsessed with the triad of impairments characteristics that sensory overload isn't researched much. Everyone just keeps adding it on at the end - "oh, by the way, some people experience sensory overload". I think most do in some shape or form, and it underpins the triad, rather than is marginal.

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