Mysterious fever, could it be related to hypersensitivity?

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About 2 years ago I came down with a fever of 102°f out of nowhere. Before the fever I was over sensitive to touch (normally I'm hypotensive to most touch). The whole thing lasted for about 3 hours and then just subsided without explanation.

My husband was close to taking me to the hospital after taking my temperature. Luckily he has basic emergency response training and tryed to hydrate and cool me down first. But it really scared him. It hasn't come back, that I've noticed, sense... but then I haven't experienced the hypersensitivity to touch sense then either.

When I think back on it I can remember a handful of times, when I was a kid, that I felt the same sensitivity to touch, but my temperature was never taken... mom would just put me to bed and I'd be fine in the morning. No one knew what was going on and I had difficulty describing what I was feeling at the time.

I only recently found out that I have AS (at 27 years old), and in my research I read that occasionally, some people experience fever when very over stimulated. I'm wondering if that's what could have happened to me.

Does anyone else with high functioning ASD or Aspergers Syndrome ever experience a fever when over stimulated?

Is this common?

Can sensitivity like that come and go?

I think for me it is the other way around. I get more hypersensitive because I have a fever. I am already hypersensitive to a lot of things, but it is always worse when I am sick. I am sometimes cranky and hypersensitive to an unusual degree and don't feel sick, but then later that day or the next day I come down with something.

<Start Dr McCoy mode>

I'm an engineer, not a doctor dammit!

<End Dr McCoy mode>

Since the autistic brain does come with the standard human biology, there's any number of reasons you might have had that fever, and most of them are completely unrelated to autism. Your body probably reacted to some kind of invader by turning up the temperature and hoping to burn it out. Since the fever went back down and you weren't hospitalized, I can only assume it worked!