What are the Differences between Highly Sensitive People and Autistic Spectrum Disorder?
5 min readAug 27, 2020
If you’re highly sensitive, at some point you might have questioned what the differences are between a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) and those who are on the Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
In this article, I want to talk about the differences between Sensory Processing Sensitivity (the formal name for Highly Sensitive People) and those who are autistic, otherwise known as autistic spectrum disorder (ASD).