Now I know there's been threads of this subject matter before - I looked them up before making this one. But they're old, and it was today's new webcomic that first put the idea into my head... Check it out, along with the alternate text (hover your mouse over it).
"...people like me..."
And I'll also refer to no. 602 ("Overstimulation"), which I think has been posted before.
If Randall Munroe has an ASD, he knows it!