Asperger's and chronic health issues

Is there a higher frequency in AS? Or a correlation? I've struggled with chronic health issues for years and been dx'd with everything from chronic fatigue, multiple viral infections (blood labs), fibro, possible Lyme infection, and the usual, 'it's all in your head' (somatization). Lots of viral infections, lots of strange symptoms that do not fit a profile and therefore, cannot be diagnosed nor treated.

My parents really had a hard time with me as I was born 'ultra sensitive'. That was before the modern DSM, of course. I was in my own world, lived my nighttime dreams in the daytime and my parents would be asked to pick me up from school as it appeared like I was hallucinating. I remember the experience of my dreams were alive in the daytime - there was no line in 'reality' for me, it was all the same. I've always had a very fluid relationship to time and space including dreams and 'reality'. I've learned to hide my natural ways a lot as I got older. I'm extremely intuitive and have been since a child so adults would be unnerved by me. Learned to hide that, too. Excelled in the arts and see music in shapes, emotions around people in shapes, I can memorize anything and recall it but have issues with day to day living like petrol in the car, what kind of car do I even drive, what time is it, getting lost if I don't take the exact route, no sense of north south, etc. I look spacey and ethereal which can be charming or just a pain in the ass because others' smack their foreheads when you run out of gas so many times. Or react so strongly to little stuff.

I can look like I'm some kind of alien because I'm so 'out there' and people *always* ask me, 'Where are you from?' and I *always* know that upon meeting me, they will get that confused, quizzical look on their face as they try to put me in an existing category in their mind's database and I don't fit any of them. Too many times of being called, 'Weird', 'Bizarre', 'From another planet', 'Strange', 'Extreme' to count. But if I'm an actress in any capacity like interviewing for a job or wearing a uniform and doing a role job, people accept me more. It's just when I am myself that it goes awry.

My sensory issues were attributed to Highly Sensitive Person and whatnot. I still have sensory issues but now we know it's Asperger's/High Functioning autism.

Do we get sick or have chronic health problems more than the rest of the population? Do you think we make it up in our heads? Or when we get overwhelmed and are trying to be square peg in round hole, our bodies resist and we get ill so we can get away?

over the years that i've been aware of having AS, i've found that there are claims that it's caused by intestinal problems (leaky gut). i've also found that there are claims that a GFCF (gluten-free casein free) diet can improve the symptoms of AS. over the year that i spent being fruitarian, i was very surprised to find that i started smiling instinctively. i also found that my normal insomnia completely disappeared. i would sleep from 00:00 to 06:00 like clockwork every day and actually feel refreshed in the morning. one of my other, rather surprising, findings was that i stopped dreaming. i had expected to have more vivid and memorable dreams. in short, my health radically improved. i simply never got ill. now, i do candidly believe that there's a reason for this. from an evolutionary perspective, we're primates. and primates are fruitarians. most of the changes our diets have taken on through hunting and agriculture simply haven't been adequately adapted to by us. i won't go into any real detail here. there are some excellent books on diet. possibly the best that i've read is 'the 80/10/10 diet' by dr douglas n graham. there are some tricks to successfully transitioning to a fruitarian diet. in my experience, the main one is to take a good quality multi-vitamin. i always recommend the 'now adam/eve' ones, because the B12 is methylcobalamin, not cyanocobalamin (cyanide based). but such a dietary change isn't to be taken lightly. it is said that it's necessary to gradually change diet and progress from an omnivorous diet to vegetarian, then vegan, then raw vegan and finally fruitarian. i, myself, tend to oscillate between vegetarian and fruitarian. i'm actually trying to get back to a fruitarian diet at the moment. the problems with being fruitarian are that a variety of good quality fruit can be hard to find and expensive. and being 100% organic is really challenging.

Polymyositis (a rare autoimmune disease). Also linked to leaky gut, I believe.

link on gut/brain connection
https://greatist.com/live/the-connectio ... depression