Anxiety vs Hypersensitivty

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I met with a clinical psychologist yesterday through work and raised how to be more effective with autism.

One of the things she told me is that hypersensitivity, through exposure to external stimuli, propels you to express yourself verbally as a reaction. I guess the reaction can also be physical.

Then if you don’t express yourself, this can be the cause of extreme anxiety.

Does anyone else experience this or have any thoughts on it?

When I was at age 8-10, it's when I gradually became sensory intolerant when I'm initially a sensory seeker.
Not coincidentally, that's also when I start having signs of anxiety.


I don't think it has something to do with expressing discomfort in my case.
Not only I'm very reactive (verbally and nonverbally) and very open with my intolerances back then -- sensory, emotional, or otherwise, I also don't hold back with such expressions because I was practically allowed to and chose not to mask it.

That didn't prevent anxiety, nor prevent sensory intolerance.
Accommodations or not, something else back then is messing with my mental health. And said issue is mostly social, not sensory. Yet, said social issue affected my sensory status then...

Until now, I still don't get it how exactly that happened.
It could be change in hormones, could be some pile up or a tearing I didn't noticed then, could be something was strained and weakened that ended up not able to take as much as then, or it could be true with what the OP says -- something unexpressed and/or kept hidden.
In the end, I escaped the whole thing 6+ years later.

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