So I only recently heard that it is an actual autism thing for the comfort zone for stimulation levels to be pretty small in general for autistic people, causing both overstimulation and understimulation to easily occur. I had noticed this previously in myself, but I just thought something like: “I guess I maybe have ADHD as well then?”. The main questions (though responses not answering these are also appreciated): do you also experience feeling both simultaneously at times? Or that the comfort zone has a negative size in general?
It’s definitely a limited size; I feel like I have to juggle and satisfy both (ADD and ASD here, btw). Currently studying, then taking a break to focus (or not) on something else, in a different position, then I have work… if I don’t have these multiple stimuli I get very down/off.