Must Require A Towel To Shower?

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Okay, so I haven't been around here in a while, but in trying to surf Google about this topic, I came upon this site again and suddenly had a 'deja-vu' for lack of a better term and seemed to recall being a member and worked out my way to getting logged back on.

I have just recently been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, due to the DSM 5, which in my particular case, I feel is a smart move, as I feel slightly too low to be aspergers, but too high to be completely autistic, so the severity scale can put me on there and rate my level, as it has been done. My psychologist originally did want to diagnose me with aspergers.

Anyway, I'm getting off topic! I can't find this anywhere on the net, I wish I could because I wanted some kind of proof to slap my JA of a boyfriend with. 'JA' it's a very bad name!

Thing is, all of our towels were in the dirty laundry and needed to be washed, so they were washed today. However, last night he found a towelette (Not sure if that is the right term, it's those types of towels you hang on the bathroom bars to dry your hands with.) and it had just been washed and clean.

Thing is, I require a towel to dry off, shirts or any material that is not a towel, I feel like it doesn't dry me all of the way. If I can't get out of the shower and dry myself completely, my shirt will stick to my back, not to mention that I just don't like being damp period. I don't even like drizzling rain hitting me, though that is probably normal for most people (It's why umbrellas exist.) Anyway, we got into a horrible argument over it because of this and I just want to know, from people with more experience and knowledge of the spectrum, is it a sensory issue? The skin being damp? After the shower? Is that why I might expect nothing less than a towel and if there is no towel at all, I refuse to shower?

Being soaked in water while clothed is a bad sensory trigger to meltdowns for me. I always go out with a large anorak when it even says "light rain shower predicted" on my weathr app. When I have a shower, I spend ages drying myself. So, yes, a sensory issue indeed.

I have always hated wet clothes and I thought everyone used a towel to shower. I keep learning new things. But I don't mind some wet spots on my clothes from the rain, I just don't like soaking wet clothes. As a kid it was worse because I hated even the sight of rain on my clothes and always had to change out of them. Boy was I scared when my grandfather threatened to throw me out in the rain once. I realize now he was kidding or just did an empty threat and I took it seriously because I was so literal and I thought he was going to literally throw me on the concrete ground.

That is something most people would get into an argument over. I don't know many people (especially women) who puts on their clothes after a shower or bath with their back still wet. I read somewhere that it's not very healthy, unless it's a really hot day.

i require 2 towels. one has to be purple and the other has to be a beach towel. no stand in towels will be accepted.

and yes, i hate being wet. even after drying off enough to put the clothes on, i still feel icky wetness and i have a fit everytime.

and my family can't understand why taking showers for me are so traumatic!

I have to be able to dry off completely once leaving the shower. There was a time I could not find my towel because someone removed it from the towel holder. I was not able to put my clothes on. I ended up using a hand dry to dry off with and that was not a good experience.
However, I'm able to go outside in the rain but I don't like to get my clothes soaking wet.