Is skin picking part of/common to autism?

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I bite my nails, pick any scab that forms from any small wound, bite my inner lower lip, pull off hang nails (btw, I just did this last thing to my thumb last night and now hurts like hell XP), pick the skin around my hand-nails, etc. Normally, I do it when I get stressed out or when I'm deep in thought. I've had this habit since I was very small and at age 20 it doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon.

I have a thing for the skin on my nose, I am always trying to get rid of any marks on there, but the problem is that it is a oily skin area so get's 'dirty' quicker then others parts of my body.

Thank you to everyone. I really appreciate all of the responses! Seems like the two things could be related. Maybe someday we will know for certain!

I pick at my skin a lot. It's actually relaxing and therapeutic for me. A stim.

When I was younger I would bite at my finger nails and pick at the underneath part of the nail. I ended up leaving the tender part of nails exposed alot which hurt. I had one finger that I picked at that classmates said it looked like it had been burned. I just decided in 4th grade I am tired of always having a hurt finger or nails so I stopped. I still bite my nails and pick at them, but not where it hurts

I used to do this as a kid, so much so that my fingers were cut to ribbons pretty much all the time, was this the early onset of my stimming behaviour that everyone missed?

Maybe for some people, but I have AS and I find the thought of skin picking, nail biting, etc. to be just unpleasant and gross.

Yep. Skin picker and nail biter here. I also developed a habit about a year ago of pulling out small hairs on the outside of my ears.

I've done it for about as long as I can recall. In kindergarten I was fixated between my thumbs and index fingers, but after everyone started to notice, it's since moved to along my right arm. I wish I didn't, and often I wish my scabs would just go away. Of course picking at them won't help, but it feels like they just haven't been healing on their own either, or maybe not as quickly as I'd like. My mom thinks it's because I'm nervous,, but I don't ever do it actively around anyone else anymore. I don't know. Maybe I get a bit worried at night when I can't sleep and lost in my own thoughts, and I need a sort of distraction. She's joked about me getting a cast, but I really do think that could help. :p

I eat a tablet that date is expiry. After eating this medicine my body reaction. So came very weakness. Weakness removes through vitamin food. But in my skin red rashes come. So my question is how to remove it. I research on the internet I think it removes my fear. Its URL is best for me. But I know senior opinion what should I do that red skin fastly remove again my natural and glowing skin again comes thanks.

Sensory overload

Obsessive compulsive disorder

It could be asking condition like psoriasis

Nervous habit