Link Between Thyroid and Autism/Asperger Symptoms?

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Im just thinking out loud here. I haven't been diagnosed with a spectrum difference but I can see some traits in myself and am curious.

I've had an underactive thyroid for quite a while now. Been treated on levothyroxine which I don't feel I got on well with.

I've now started taking liothyronine, and it's taken quite a while, but I feel like my brain is waking up, more alert, more concious, more ready to tackle the things holding me back. I've always had problems socially, and depression and anxiety off and on over the years. But I feel like Im starting to see things more clearly.

It's a bizarre concept. I can't fully explain it. I do feel a bit jittery to be honest, but nothing like the heavy anxiety I had when I was basically overdosing on Levothyroxine after a period of weight loss.

Im also concious, looking over some of the posts I've written, that in typed or handwritten word, Im getting various words completely wrong. Im missing out words, using the wrong words, misspelling words - eg if I want to write ghosts, I might type goats instead. Or number, I might think 395 but end up writing 335 instead. I know this isn't an autistic trait, but what Im saying is that my brain is acting differently. Almost like when I was younger. I remember writing "king" instead of "kind". eg, "king regards, reboot"

What Im saying is that I don't think Im Hyperthyroid, but Im coming out of a prolonged period of being unsuitably treated for Hypothyroidism.

Would someone on the spectrum who is hypothyroid, find that their symptoms or severity of their symptoms reduce? Or at least get hidden away?