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> There are autistic people who will do alk these things, have a slight road bump on life, and it will all fracture apart. This happens to everyone, including
by 0815test 7y ago
> There are autistic people who will do alk these things, have a slight road bump on life, and it will all fracture apart.
This happens to everyone, including neurotypicals. It's what used to be known as a nervous breakdown, and more recently is labeled as acute stress disorder. Sure, the level of stress resilience can differ greatly among individuals, but that's the point: it's a difference in degree, not in kind!
- rincebrain 7y agoSort of? I would argue it's messier than just variation in magnitude - there are different groups of behavioral changes that happen under different levels of duress. I know people who, under heavy stress, aggressively clean everything, even if it's just been cleaned, as a coping mechanism. I also know people who fail to clean anything under mild stress, and lots of somewhat odd subsets. I would suspect you could pattern match these and get subsets which will be more commonly comorbid with some autistic traits, but the patterns can matter for what you can predict about other often-comorbid things, as well as which coping mechanisms may or may not work.