Eye contact 🙌 everyone talks about it, but they don't understand how truly awful maintaining eye contact is with those you don't know. I can with my loved ones, but that's after a lot of love and trust

I am extremely sensitive to touch and texture. Clothes, blankets, towels, ect. can't be certain textures like fleece and denim or I can't touch them without getting overwhelmed. There are a lot of foods that I think taste great, but if the texture isn't good then I gag no matter how much I want to eat it. Unexpected touch, or any kind of light touch is awful and I have to rub the lingering tingly sensation away. I wear socks at the very least in houses I'm not certain have been swept, and I can't use any bathroom but my own because the potential for unexpected sensations (hairspray residue on the counter, hairs on the floor, soap on the shower floor) is too high. I use no products on my hair or skin that aren't meant to be washed off and I can't put nail polish on without being hyper aware that my nails feel heavy.

I would say struggle to let something drop in a conversation. Like there’s a part of me that just cannot shut up about something once something I’m interested in pops up in a conversation or I have something to say about it. It’s just so hard just to move on. Errrgh always struggled with that

Issues with tone, emotional regulation/understanding my own emotions, and no eye contact

eye contact, stimming, being overstimulated !!

Overstimulation is huge! Sometimes if my partner rubs my arm too much in one spot it physically hurts! Also I could never figure out how to do conversations with multiple people, it seems like everyone knows exactly when it's their turn to talk but I don't, I always interrupt everyone. I also can't stand it when people feel the need to stand so darn close to me! There's plenty of space back up a few feet please 🙏. Also I have to bring my earbuds with me to the store because people are too loud!

Change in my normal routine and uncertainty really stresses me out. I desperately long for positive changes in my life but then I procrastinate on taking those next steps or my anxiety takes over. It takes me a lot longer to adjust to change than it would someone without autism spectrum disorder too. Plus I get overstimulated very easily around people and have social anxiety really bad. The good aspects of my most autistic traits are my creativity, artistic abilities and freakishly good memory. Also I am very smart and wise beyond my years in some areas of life but in other areas I'm very immature and naive. I have asbergers syndrome which is very mild high and functioning autism.

my most prominent is definitely eye contact, which causes more issues than you'd think to be fully honest. I always feel the need to look away/close my eyes and I tend to do a mix of both at once and a lot of people think I'm rolling my eyes at them... which makes people assume I'm annoyed/not listening. I also have bad introception and auditory sensitivity.