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Temperature Sensitivity

RockChick

Is anyone else super sensitive to temperatures, in particular the cold? Even though today is a mild day I'm in a jumper and sitting in front of the fan heater shivering and painfully cold (not ideal with the prices of gas and electric) and just can't warm up. Could this be autism related or something else entirely? 

Sorry - only newly diagnosed so still so still learning what is and isn't related?  

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  • in reply to NAS85732

    Let's not get all the autistic people in a sudden health panic!  Remember that we do tend to take things literally and stress about making appointments.  

    While discovering a new sensitivity to temperature may be a symptom of something else, sensory sensitivity is something that most of us have lived with all our lives.  Sensory sensitivity in general is, in fact, a defining characteristic in the diagnostic criteria, and can manifest in many ways through the 8 senses.  (Usual 5 + the ways in which we sense our body and what's going on inside it.) 

    People can be both hypo and hyper sensitive.  Not noticing the cold or feeling it extra keenly.