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Panik
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12 Dec 2006, 12:45 am

Louise wrote:

I often find people at least slightly unnerving to be around. When they get noisy (groups of girls, usually) or overcrowd me then I tend to feel anxious, although not directly afraid. You could say I have a mild phobia of men, though not enough of one to count as entirely relevant.

I saw a blog comment by someone called Bill Nason once, which I thought made an intelligent point regarding autism and anxiety:

Bill Nason wrote:

In my experience, the nervous system accumulates stress chemicals throughout the day. Research has shown that the nervous system, in general, for individual’s with autism is on “high alert”, as compared to NT people. This means, that even in a relaxed state, the nervous system has a higher level of stress chemicals. We all have a boiling point, whereby once the stress chemicals build to that point, coping skills break down and the nervous is set into “fight or flight” response. The nervous system has to act to release the stress chemicals. This will occur in the form of meltdowns or shutdowns (nervous system shuts down to minimize stimulation so it can rebound).

Also, does anyone else find that the more anxious they are, the lower functioning they tend to feel?

I've spaced out totally on a few occasions, this was way before I knew anything about AS.. I thought I was just shy and depressed and had some sort of panic attack. Yep, it's usually a neverending circle of "emptiness" in my head and thinking about not fitting in. I try to shake it off without success and the only solution is to get away from the situation and be alone to recover.

After that happened a couple of times I thought to myself something like; damn.. you act like an autistic! That was one more clue.. Is this something others experience too? Or could it be drug-related? Bah sorry for crappy english btw.

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12 Dec 2006, 1:03 am

Yahoo story on fear effects on autistic brain

There is reference but no link to the actual study they are citing.

Panik
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12 Dec 2006, 3:04 am

Interesting article but wouldn't that type of brain-abnormality be obvious in a CT scan? Cause my brain appear to be normal according to doctors.. unless they lied to be nice.

Guess that means I don't have AS or HFA? lol?

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12 Dec 2006, 3:10 am

They cite use of MRI, which admittedly I don't know much about. It appears that one receives a different type of image though that you might not look for in a CT scan.
the images at wikipedia looked different to me.

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12 Dec 2006, 3:19 am

That's true, it could have been overlooked. (Not sure if it was CT or MRI tbph)

I'll bring it up next time I see a professional methinks, though the proper diagnosis tools they have should be enough hopefully. Stupid irrational fear.

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12 Dec 2006, 6:49 am

I have really bad nightmares.In one of the the abstract concept of fear runs up behind me and shouts "boo!"

:lol:

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12 Dec 2006, 7:54 pm

rpm2004 wrote:

I have really bad nightmares.In one of the the abstract concept of fear runs up behind me and shouts "boo!"

:lol:

Sometimes I have night terrors where I wake up paralized and start screaming in my sleep.

Good times... good times.

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12 Dec 2006, 7:59 pm

I have lucid dream nightmares nearly every night.

You dont know tired until you've spent all night fighting with your subconcious mind about what happens in your dreams then have to wake up to go to work

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