So I noticed that I was struggling a lot trying to figure out which of my symptoms were from autism & which were from fibromyalgia, when it hit me - there seems to be a LOT of overlap b/w them. And when I did some research I found that I'm not the only one thinking that /perhaps/ afabs like me w/ fibro (something pretty rarely diagnosed in amabs) are the """missing""" autistic afabs? epiphanyasd.blogspot( )ca/2014/01/fibromyalgia-and-perhaps-what-happened( )html - Thoughts?
I mean, I guess it’s possible some people are in that category, but looking at the symptoms of fibro it seems pretty unlikely. Fibro has no social difficulties - which are necessary to be autistic - category (beyond obviously what might be caused by being in pain) and ASD isn’t associated - at least in diagnostic literature - with pain, fatigue or IBS.
I personally think that the “missing” afabs are down to
1) Autism generally presenting differently and so being missed
2) Autism being seen as a little boy thing, including by a lot of medical professionals
Liz
