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Pretty much everything for me (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/autism@lemmy.world
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[–] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

If for some reason I get one of my hands wet I then need to get the other one wet aswell. I dislike asymmetries like this. Same with temperatures, I one hand or foot is colder than the other I need to equalise them.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago*

    I do the wet hand thing too. I think it must be a nervous system thing, if one hand gets wet and the other stays dry, the dry hand starts to feel hot rather than the wet one feeling cold. Can't have that.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I have something a bit similar, when I walk on a crack in the sidewalk with one foot, I have to walk on a similar crack the same spot on my other foot otherwise things feel "unbalanced"

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Interesting, but I think there are very different underlying causes that drive these behaviours. If my hands are wet I can block out the sensation but if only one is wet then my focus keeps shifting to the sensation, as if the imbalance makes it more salient. It is less a habit and more a coping tactic to filter out sensory information.

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