Ollywog wrote:
Do you find that you are "more autistic" when your overall mental health is worse? Do you find that manifestations of autism such as sensory sensitivity, social difficulties, and meltdowns or shutdowns become stronger?
I think this is true for me, to the point that I'm sometimes unsure whether I am autistic or whether my apparently autistic traits are part of my already diagnosed mental illnesses.
High masking people will definitely have that happen to a significant degree. It's not that we get more autistic, it's that we lose the excess mental capacity to mask over it. And we have less energy with which to reset.
I don't know about folks that do less masking though.