Autism and Periods

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]Hi, I'm coming on here to make a quick little rant um about something that I kind of have wanted to talk about forever, but because I'm so like uh I haven't.

[00:00:09]But I'm starting to like care a little bit less about like what other people think, to be quite frank.

[00:00:16]So, I'm going to talk about what I think is I'm not going to say it's not talked about cuz I feel like I have heard other autistic women speak about this. But that is the difference between yes, getting a period in general and being a woman is hard.

[00:00:33]But menstruating and being on the spectrum, being autistic and getting your period is a whole 'nother level of traumatizing, I feel. I I fear that is that is the truth.

[00:00:42]As someone who has to already try and regulate themselves like to function every single day, getting your period is so dysregulating and it is a whole 'nother list and myriad of issues that I have to deal with along with the things I had to deal with anyways. So, for me that's I'm I'm I am dis- regulated even more. It's harder for me to get up control my emotions.

[00:01:04]I'm much more I and I know, that's the thing, like like PMS, right? Like people's hormones go out of whack or like they change a little bit, right?

[00:01:12]People are going to be more irritable.

[00:01:15]For me, I am always quite irritable um especially when like I'm in a certain like I'm trying to focus. When I'm on my period, I I have to fight so hard to try and use my words.

[00:01:28]Which is already difficult.

[00:01:30]But I have to be like I'm doing this, I'm sorry, like please stop I like I can't get a full sentence out sometimes.

[00:01:37]Like majority of the time I'm trying to explain things when I'm on my period cuz it's so hard.

[00:01:42]And I again, autistic people are known to have some more sensitive skin. Again, not the case for all.

[00:01:49]I'm one of those people.

[00:01:51]So, then we have to talk about menstrual products. Okay, pads A sensory nightmare, okay? Like B, they don't I have sensitive skin. I get like rashes, it's not comfortable.

[00:02:03]Tampons are what work best for me, okay?

[00:02:05]I can't handle a Diva Cup. I don't think I could I don't I've never tried it. I don't think I can try it. I don't think that's for me because the idea of that, again, sounds like sensory hell because like having to go up in there and like get that on my hands, disgusting to me, okay? To me, that sounds like sensory hell. I do a tampon, okay? I do a tampon, stick it in there.

[00:02:26]I can't go to sleep with a tampon and I Someone has told me that they have like sleeping tampons now, but when I was younger, I watched this video about the girl with the golden legs, like she got toxic shock and then she had to get her legs amputated and I will not sleep with a with a tampon in even if I have a nap.

[00:02:40]I like freak out. So, um yes.

[00:02:44]I tried period underwear. I have three pairs of period underwear. I got them from Nix.

[00:02:50]All of a sudden, I heard apparently they're causing cancer. I don't know if that's true. That may be total misinformation. I haven't really looked into it. Um but I tried those for like at night, you know? Um the thing with that is like I don't know. Like they don't always like stay in the right position. Maybe that's just like I'm not wearing them properly. I don't know. But then also like you I feel like you have to rinse them before you wash them again just cuz if it goes fresh in then like all the blood is going in there, too. I don't Again, I know this may be a super TMI video.

[00:03:19]But also, if you're on the spectrum and you and and if if you're an autistic woman, how do how does your period affect you?

[00:03:26]Do you relate to any of this or is this just like maybe I'm just being sharing a Zoe experience and it has nothing to do with being I know some of it does have to do with being autistic, though.

[00:03:36]Anyways, um yes.

[00:03:42]Getting your period as an autistic woman is traumatizing more so than the average female.

[00:03:51]I I feel like this is true. Cuz I feel like in general existing and being on the world on the earth as an autistic woman is more traumatizing than the average woman.

[00:04:02]Cuz everything's like heightened.

[00:04:04]Anyways, so I guess that's like what I wanted to rant about today um is about I hate being on my period.

[00:04:13]It creates so much extra stress for me.

[00:04:17]Creates more issues, more sensory issues I have to deal with.

[00:04:22]I'm even more disregulated than usual. I feel like I'm kind of talking in circles, but um yeah, let me know what you think down below.

[00:04:30]Or if you also have tips like I don't know. I have an electric heating pad and then I also have like a rice pack that can be an ice pack or you heat it up.

[00:04:39]Um but I don't know if those really help me to be on to mm the heating pad is like the electric one.

[00:04:47]I don't know. All right, let me know your tips. Uh try and help me. Let's help each other. Autistic women unite.

[00:04:53]Um okay, bye.