Broke my leg, didn’t realise until they went to send me home and tried to put me on crutches that my arm was also broken. Had a ‘sore tummy’ every now and then. Turns out it was a serious condition and I shouldn’t have been able to hold down a job or go to a gym daily. I also am never full unless I’m absolutely stuffed. Was happy to get the autism diagnosis and have interroception explained to me, made everything make so much sense.
My wife has often said, with more than a grain of truth, that if she didn’t live with me I’d never eat or drink anything.
I rarely feel hungry or thirsty - it’s usually my stomach making noises that alerts me to the fact. Annoyingly, unless I have a dehydration headache, I generally can’t tell whether I’m hungry or actually thirsty.
I stopped smoking weed recently as a self-medication, and now I can’t interpret what my stomach is sending lmao. So weird.
I know other autistic people like this but I’m honestly the exact opposite - hypersensitive to pretty much everything. I would rather be the opposite if I’m honest, it is very tiring to have to keep managing myself so that I’m not in discomfort.
I don’t have an issue with eating because I have pretty strong eating habits established (except I sometimes skip my 4pm lunch because I am too focus on my work). But it’s a very different story when it comes to clothes, especially because weather changes quickly where I live (even during the same day). I try to establish some rules linked to the weather, but I do not always do it very well (and it’s worse when I forgot to look at the weather, it’s not a strong enough habit at the moment).
It does not bother me a lot in practice, but people tend to tell me something is wrong (hot and I have no shirt, or cold and I have a shirt).
I struggle with this quite a lot, particularly with eating. I’ve been underweight the majority of my life and still am, and often realize I simply do not feel hungry, even if I’m starving. I’ve also broken bones, when I didn’t realize it was severe. But progress has been made with eating more consistently, and we chug along :)
How did you make progress happen? Do you mean like making a schedule for eating?
Honestly, I’m not saying do this because replacing functions with vices is very not good and I am fully aware of it. That being said what worked for me is marijuana, it helps me to feel like I WANT to eat at the very least, even if I don’t feel hungry. When I’m high it makes food more appealing to me as well, so it helps to supress my extremely picky eating habits. Of course, this is making a habit in and of itself which is why i don’t necessarily recommend it, but I’ll wean myself off of it.
I am neutral on marijuana as I know people who use it to their own detriment as well as people who get true benefit from it. It’s not good for me as it makes me anxious with no positive benefit but I’m glad you found something that helps
a lot of things I recognize pretty easily and are pretty sensitive too, however for me it’s my social tired meter. It’s taken me a long time after finding out that i’m Autistic to start recognizing patterns that I may need to step away. Another thing is physical pain, it’s really hard for me to exercise and stuff because I can’t ever tell if i’m pushing myself enough, too much, or not enough.
I resonate with both of these. It’s been wild in recent months learning to listen more to myself and give myself permission to say no to socializing or to remove myself when I need to. I steeled myself to more pushback even than I’ve received.
