Trichotillomania and Aspeger's?

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Are these two mutally exclusive? I know true trichotillomania is usually more of an OCD-related disorder. Could hair twirling and tugging at hair be a form of "stimming"? Anyone else have this?

Thanks,
Spudster

I developed it after a really bad bout of depression which was manily caused by my dad being a bully.

I scrach my head in the one spot and it get sore
Happens when I stay up too late on the internet.

a explanation on Trichotilwhatever I kindly request. kinda misread it as hypertrichosis at first XD

Apologies,

Trichotillomania, hair pulling, is a repetitive, usually involuntary, pulling of hair from the body.

I rarely actually pull the hair from anywhere but will twist my arm hair and then untwist it, with a high "need" to twist it in social venues (which seriously weirds NTs out).

Based on this, a related question. Is stimming and OCD function? Do you stim to relieve anxiety or is stimming a way to ward off anxiety, a sort of "relaxation" technique?

Aspergers is not an exclusive condition, there are plenty of co-morbid things you could have "to go" with Aspergers.

True, except I strongly dislike the word "co-morbid". It comes from the medical model idea that health is freedom from death and the absence of disease, and "disease" is abnormal functioning and not necessarily dysfunctional functioning. So people with multiple "diseases" (co-occurring disabilities/conditions) are closer to being dead in that sense - hence, co-"morbid"

I often find myself pulling at my eyebrows when I'm stressed, anxious, or deep in thought. I haven't always done that. The habit didn't develop until college I think, probably because of the increased stress levels. I've pulled at them so much that I've had bald patches in my eyebrows. I associate it with some of my other stress-related bad habits such as picking at my lips.

I suppose it could be a form of stimming, but personally I think it is my way of dealing with stressful situations.

My daughter developed trich after being put on anti anxiety medication (as well as other OCD behaviors). I later found out this can occur as a result of taking certain meds. While the criteria for AS does include "repetitive stereotyped behaviors" I would still be interested in finding out how many non-medicated aspies have trich. BTW, it is interesting to note that after she was weaned off the medication, the trich is still present-almost as if the meds "activated" the condition.

i had this when i was younger

In fourth grade, when I was somewhere around nine to eleven years old, I had bad trichotillomania. It's one of the most embarassing memories I have. I like to forget that it even occurred. It's all a big blur. It started with just a big patch gone from my hair and then... all of it was gone and I was bald. All of my eyebrows were gone, eyelashes, arm hair. Eventually I recovered. Let me tell you something though, it did not help me at school. Not a single bit, as you can imagine. I guess I deserved being called weird after that because I really was.

Ok usually wouldn't admit this but thanks to internet anonymity I will! I bite the hairs off my hands and arms and so have patchy hair there all the time. I wore long-sleeves all summer due to this . Recently started lasering the hair on my hands/arms because of it and hope next summer to be hair free. Looks better that way and also people won't think I'm weird if they catch me doing it. I most often do it when on the computer, so my left hand/arm always looks worse as my right is usually busy on the mouse.

My other habit is biting my nails. Some people say it's a habit that makes me look nervous or like I lack confidence but it's not that -- it just feels comforting.

Is this called stimming, OCD, or what?

I had trichtillomania for a while when I was 8. I ended up pulling out about a quarter of my hair. It was a pretty mild case, and it went away on its own. I remembering having it, but I don't remember what I was thinking or feeling. But that was around the time I started experiencing a lot of anxiety, so I assume the two are connected.