The same can be said of paramount
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The Cure are considered Post-Punk, sometimes even New Wave. It depends on the era of their music.
Sisters tend to fit into in the genre known as Gothic Rock, which is uniquely different it's sound.
Souxie is more on the Post-Punk side, but understand it's not unusual for bands to cross genres as they aren't trying to be a specific genre, they are the product of their influences and creativity.
There are stylistic distinctions as well as differences in musical origins that separate lots of music which still gets grouped into the generalized term of "goth".
To the people who are passionate about music, knowing and representing those distinctions is often important.
I can relate to this, infact in addition to these experiences I have chronic muscle pain from tension which primarily comes from being in contact with others.
Being isolated and in control of my environment has been pretty much the only way to minimize it.
As for which of the causes you described are behind the energy drain; for me being perceived automatically turns on what feels like a background awareness that cannot be turned off until no one is there.
I consider masking to be part of this awareness; a self-defense mechanism that we learn early in our development to protect ourselves from harm by calculating how we react in order to minimize potential harm. In those situations it is impossible to feel entirely safe because we cannot control our environment and if we won't react carefully we might end up with even more interaction we desperately don't want.
Perhaps it is similar in nature to how something that lives in the wild has to maintain a constant awareness to avoid being caught off guard and potentially killed. An activation of fight-or-flight/primitive brain centers in the brain.
That is one source of energy drain in itself
There is also the energy drain from the much higher amount of sensory input we are being fed from our brains having many more synapses than those without autism. We can't simply filter out or ignore everything we are receiving, there's simply too much of it. It has to be stopped at the source before it can become sensory input. Isolation is the easiest way to accomplish this.
so many times I drove to work and had... no memory of driving there as I got out of my car.
thankfully I work from home now 🤣