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7:29pm September 1, 2014
Anonymous asked: Is a high rate tachycardia correlated with autism? My resting is 95-115 and can go down to 90 after being in bed for hours doing nothing. When I workout it goes up to 200. I'm an 18 year old female.

autisticdrift:

This is a really interesting question! I have a high resting heart rate for my fitness level. If I’m nervous or ill, my resting heart rate will skyrocket and a few times I’ve gotten alarmed looks/respsones from nurses who took my pulse in a stressful hospital/doctor’s office setting. 

I don’t know of any evidence of this, but I would love to hear other people’s experiences. Does anyone else have a high resting heart rate? 

(*tachycardia means a resting heart rate over 100 BPM - typical RHR is 60 100, generally at the lower end in younger people and athletes, increasing with age and lower levels of fitness)

I have tachycardia, my worst it went up to 250 without my having done anything to exercise or anything.  It’s been better in recent years, but it still goes up pretty high sometimes.

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  1. crydreaming reblogged this from autisticdrift and added:
    I’ve always had a high resting heart rate. I assumed it was something to do with never really being ‘at rest’ because of...
  2. chavisory said: I had a high resting heart rate for a long time, but it eventually turned out to be related to hypoglycemia.
  3. aspiejac said: That’s interesting. My resting heart rate is usually 95-100 and has been for as long as I can remember.
  4. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from autisticdrift and added:
    I have tachycardia, my worst it went up to 250 without my having done anything to exercise or anything. It’s been better...
  5. chubisoba reblogged this from autisticdrift and added:
    Yes I do, at least from all the heart rate tests I remember. This might be because I was probably stimming/nervous...
  6. 1201alarm said: Yup. I don’t know what it is exactly, but I know it has always been high.
  7. specsthespectraldragon said: my resting is 110-125, active 205.
  8. autisticwolfesbrainisautistic reblogged this from autisticdrift and added:
    I was recently flagged as borderline tachycardiac (not officially, just going by the definition), and a cardiologist I...
  9. sparklingkittycat said: This makes me happy, because I was shamed in PE for being ‘unfit’ for having a really high heart rate after exercising. :(
  10. autisticdrift posted this