Physiological reactions to obsessions

[Guest guest]

I have an utterly random question: Do any of you on the spectrum experience physiological reactions to obsessions?

Let me elaborate:

This sort of thing doesn’t happen to me anymore, but when I was a kid I would often break out into a sweat and my heart would race at the mention of something I was obsessed with. I’m not exactly sure why, but I think it’s because I was so perversely self-aware that my degree of obsession was “weird.” And I think in some abstract way it felt like my “world” was being invaded. Does this make sense? Anyway I’m curious if anybody else has had this happen.

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