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Raven_Forester

Hi everyone, 

Is there ever a time that anyone ever feels more autistic than normal? I guess a better way to phrase this is, is there ever a time when its harder to hide your autism? Like when you're tired or stressed or experiencing other high emotions. Such as attending a funeral while extremely sleep deprived which was exactly what happened today. Well, I guess all week I've felt that I've been acting "way more autistic" than usual. For instance, more stimming, more sensory sensitivity, social tolerance, worsened executive dysfunction, etc. Does anyone else get that? Just curious. 

Or it could be totally unrelated to autism. 

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  • I think if you usually make an effort to mask and you’re tired that you might not have as much energy to do it so you appear more autistic because your brain/body is just doing what it naturally wants. But also with regards to executive functioning who wants to get up and do stuff when sleep deprived I have days where I just sit in front of the TV when my daughter is at school because I’m exhausted but some days I can clean the house or run several errands. If you usually have to really fight to get things done in the first place it will only get worse when tired. Maybe NT people can still do stuff when they’re tired but they’ll just moan about it? I’m not actually sure, I live in an ND household

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  • I think if you usually make an effort to mask and you’re tired that you might not have as much energy to do it so you appear more autistic because your brain/body is just doing what it naturally wants. But also with regards to executive functioning who wants to get up and do stuff when sleep deprived I have days where I just sit in front of the TV when my daughter is at school because I’m exhausted but some days I can clean the house or run several errands. If you usually have to really fight to get things done in the first place it will only get worse when tired. Maybe NT people can still do stuff when they’re tired but they’ll just moan about it? I’m not actually sure, I live in an ND household

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