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   K.J. Elphinstone (katyelphinstone@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 24-Aug-2025 20:53:07 JST K.J. Elphinstone

   • nellie-m

   @nellie_m

   Also for me, it just explained so much. Interestingly, I also had this thing of eating huge amounts of food while being very, very thin. I'm starting to wonder if this is a thing, too, in autism. 🤔

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Aug-2025 20:53:03 JST Miakoda

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     @KatyElphinstone @Frantasaur @nellie_m Water is the one I have most difficulty with. I don't think I actually know what thirsty feels like. I just have nothing, and the symptoms of dehydration.
     I feel nothing re: water till my eyes get dry and my head hurts.
     This has resulted in waking up in the hospital a couple times.

     It's why I go for juice and soda more - those have a second motivator of tasting good and containing sugar. Hydration need is just not existant for me.

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     K.J. Elphinstone (katyelphinstone@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 24-Aug-2025 20:53:04 JST K.J. Elphinstone

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     • Franchesca

     @Frantasaur

     Yes, for me having to make food for my kids helps regularity. I used to forget to eat until I'd get dizzy and stomach pains, & think "what's going on, am I ill or something?!"

     @nellie_m

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     Franchesca (frantasaur@mastodon.ie)'s status on Sunday, 24-Aug-2025 20:53:06 JST Franchesca

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     @KatyElphinstone @nellie_m I used to be really skinny as a child but more related to food avoidance. As an adult I would lose weight if I was living alone. I would tend to get into something and forget to eat / not feel hungry so often. Other people making food around me helps remind me to be hungry.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Aug-2025 20:55:58 JST Miakoda

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     @KatyElphinstone @Frantasaur @nellie_m Things were not exactly safe for me when I was stuck in the desert for a while.

     I'm usually very sensetive to temperature... but I got focused, and my laptop shut itself down, and that's when I realized the thermometer in the vehcile I was living in had maxed out at 122 F. If it weren't for my laptop overheating, who knows how serious that would have gotten.