Could my symptoms be autism?

I feel like autism is better considered what does affect you vs what doesn't (i.e. the eye contact, conversations, etc.). Plenty of us can do those thing, but lots still don't like it or find it easy, or maybe they can sometimes but it costs more spoons than it's worth most of the time. Like other folks have said, self-diagnosis is pretty accepted, especially because an austism diagnosis is difficult and potentially expensive and not really worth it for a lot of folks.

There’s a lot of overlap with ptsd and autism, you could have both or ptsd could be causing your symptoms. Also adhd and autism are highly co-occurring and have similar symptoms like the sensory issues, so it’s possible you have adhd and or autism in addition to ptsd. I would talk ab it w your mental health provider! I have c ptsd, autism/adhd, bpd, gad, sad, mdd and pmdd but most of it is caused by my ptsd and autism

I learned this from a social worker but PTSD can mimic autistic traits and symptoms such as you described making it extremely hard to differentiate between PTSD and Autism

I am autistic you described me. I don't understand some facial expressions. There are songs that don't make sense because of how they are worded. The same with billboards. The sensory is awful. I had a tag that I ripped off of my underwear on Friday. It felt like it was burning my skin. I googled female symptoms for autistics. I know men and women are different. I hope this helps.

Hey, Bipolar 1 and autism here! Based on what you said, i would tend to agree. However, it could just be severe adhd instead of autism… that has the same symptoms you mentioned to some degree, but I’m unsure. You could explore embrace-autism.com for more recourses. Hope this helps