Autism and compulsive hair pulling/skin picking

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It has been happening for 3 years now and gotten gradually worse to the point where ive previously delt with bald patches on my scalp, eyelashes, pubic hair and eye brows. No it's not trichotillomania, it's definetly the aspergers (a harmful form of stimming). What I'm increasingly getting concerned with is on my pubic regions (I'm a female). I'm sorry if this is tmi or this is the wrong discussion but I'm begging for for help.

It got to the point where there wasn't any need to shave as I had managed to rip out every single individual hair. Although recently I've started shaving and trimming to make sure that the hair isn't long enough to pull anymore and that's quite effective.

The biggest problem is that now on my vagina there is many scars and scabs because I keep picking at the skin. My vagina looks like I have a serious STD and I'm worried that when I lose my virginity (if that ever happens) that it will make the boy nervous because he might think that I have an infection. Honestly, it looks awful.

Yes this is disgusting for me to share this but I really need help, I'm frightened of what a potential partner might think. Should I only ever have sex with the lights off?

I have this same problem except I don't pull my pubes out, it's mostly my scalp hair and eyebrows. Something that helped me temporary brake this stim was applying pointy stilleto acrylic nails. It's really hard to get a good grip of hairs with them on. They are high maintenance though.

With the crotch scars just tell the person it's from shaving or something. It's a common thing for women to have scars and blemishes who shave and stuff, so most won't be surprised.