Static shock and autistic people

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I hate being shocked and it does hurt, but in my family, my mom (NT) is the one who is shocked most often. She's got to where she taps almost everything metal before she touches it so she's less likely to get shocked.

I have no idea if I am more sensitive to static electricity. Or not.

With that being said, I dislike being "shocked". When I was younger, I remember other boys would generate static electricity (by sliding their feet on a rug) and then go around and shock each other. I would avoid that activity.

I used to get it a lot off escalators.

I used to make circuit boards. I had the best success rate in the company as I produced the least static. I don't know what underwear one guy was wearing as he used to blow the components all the time. Women produce bad static from tights etc.

I get static shock really bad when I'm doing laundry and I push the elevator button to go up to my floor. It hurts like hell.

One thing I forgot to mention in my previous post.

When I was in the U.S. Navy, I was a Sonarman, and we had really sensitive multimeters which had a multitude of functions, including an ohm meter. When I first reported on board, they were showing me how good the equipment was, and said " Here, hold one lead in one hand, and another lead in the other hand and we'll read your resistance". My natural resistance to electricity is 0.25 ohms, whereas the norm is 0.75 ohms.
I wonder if this applies to all Aspies.

Now it's that time of the year again and hear we go!! !! if it is a sensory problem is there anything we can do like a therapy of some kind to stop this from being so bad or stop it entirely!!