So you're saying you would have starved to death and it had nothing to do with the bacterial infection, but the aversion to food, which is, an autistic thing? I sometimes wonder whether I might be mildly autistic, but really, this is not a thing I've come across before!
So glad they didn't destroy another jacket though.
ps. aren't autistic people supposed to allegedly not experience empathy? Except everyone who's actually autistic says they do. And some say, they experience it in an overwhelming way. So maybe you're an empath too? And maybe the experts don't know anything.