Worrying a lot... do you? and is is common in those with AS?

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I worry obsessively over most things. Especially if it looks to be something that could potentially turn into a social issue, or already is a social issue. I worry about work stuff alot. Usually the things I worry about are things that I have no control over which is probably why I worry them to death.

I obsessively try to look at things from every possible angle and try to figure out what I'm going to do in each scenario. Can you say Asperger's?

I only worry about the important things like a comet striking the earth or Al Gore actually getting rich off of his schemes.

Well, I used to, until my girlfriend helped me with my severe anxiety, with a CD she made me: it features this really soothing music, and every night before I go to bed, I put the CD on, and do creative imagery while taking very deep breaths. Calms me down dramatically, AND helps me think a lot better.

Guys, ya thought you were smarter than everyone else BEFORE? Do this technique, and you'll make Einstein look like a dunce!

What I really hate though are all the NTs who always say "Oh, I'm so much more laid back....yer so uptight". Really? So, WHO is it now that these NTs run to the minute something goes wrong, when they screw things up? Yeah, that's what I thought.

Yes, but I call it anxiety.

read my post, dude.

^I agree that would be helpful. Actually, I've come along way in the past couple years but, PTSD is a large contributor to my anxiety, and is a little tougher to deal with. like they say though.....time heals all wounds.

i worry a lot about various things

I worry all the time about all sorts of things, tests etc. The problem is that it stops me getting to sleep and enjoying myself

I do not think so: I am quite famous for being not worried at all about anything; Even if a catastrophic event is going to show up, I am extremely clam and it seems to exist nothing, even my own dead which could change this. I was ones diagnosed with a potential fatal illness and the hospital consultant was astonished about my reaction - or lack of reaction.

At end it is question about logic: If I can't change anything, why I should allow this to disturb my tranquillity; if can change something I should do this, but allowing this possible negative event to disturb my tranquillity will not help anything either.

So: Why I should be worried about anything at all?

Last edited by Dussel on 04 Feb 2009, 9:06 am, edited 2 times in total.

i do not worry about much but i do have some things that make me anxious if i think about them.

i have read many descriptions of strokes and they frighten me badly.

i wonder how the arteries in my brain are and i wonder how i would cope if i had a stroke.
it is a very serious thing to suddenly lose a major set of faculties in an instant almost.

like here i am talking in my wonderful adjectival world, and bang. i see stars raining down and i wake up six weeks later wih a dead right hand side and no ability to speak or care for myself, and i hear the doctor say that it is permanent.

or maybe it might me worse. maybe it would kill the balance centres of my brains ear input and i would spin and cartwheel and somersault (3 axial dizziness) my way through the rest of my life.
i am glad my brain is presently well, but i do have a fear of a stroke. i am not old enough to be likely to have one, but many people my age (36) have had one.
eek.

also i worry about how i will be disposed of when i die. i do not want to be buried in a box.
i know that i will never awaken in there and experience the stench and inescapability of my dark confine, but i can not chance it. i do not want to be cremated because i can not chance the fact that i will not feel the vaporization and annihilation of who i was.

whatever. i do not think of those things unless someone asks me about my worries.

it was more when i was a child that i worried about my bodies disposal.

I worry about the NWO, and the possibility of a meteorite destroying humanity like in Armageddon. I say, when there's big things like this threatening life as we know it, who cares if I forget my PE kit once in a while?! [only half joking]

thanks again for all your responses...

at least I know I'm not nuts

I over-worry a lot, even about things most would think "what's so bad about that?"

I have OCD in addition to AS, so yes, I worry pretty much constantly. I get AS-type worries, too, though. It's sometimes very hard to extricate what worries of mine are from the OCD and what ones are from the AS. And yes, anxiety (especially over unpredictability and change) is very common in AS.
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Right now I need help with worrying.

After 44 years of life knowing I am different from others, I was relieved to be diagnosed with Asperger's this past November. I am proud of this fact. I do not see Asperger's/autism as anything degrading. It is a unique quality that I enjoy having.

But, I can never leave anything alone. I keep researching and researching until I get unsure of myself---then I get in a panic/anxiety and worry state. It was like that with most of my tattoos. I had to keep looking at them until I found something wrong with them that needed fixed. I often feel like everyone else's tattoos are better than mine. Anyway, that is straying off topic a bit.

With my Asperger's, I keep reading about all the traits. Yes, I indeed qualify on both the DSM-IV and the Gillberg list---no problem. But then I worried a couple weeks ago because my digit ratio is around 0.987 rather than the more typical Asperger's ratio of 0.95-0.97. I measured and measured and measured. Worry, worry, worry. My fear was of not having Asperger's. Asperger's explains me---I like that. I bought the golf shirt which I enjoy wearing. Then, after reading posts about digit ratio, I dismissed the digit ratio from my worries.

I had previously done the same thing with giftedness being confused with Asperger's. To get to the bottom of this, I categorized all the traits I could find in research to compare the two as occuring seperately, and together. I got my IQ score from school and it was 111---high, but not intellectually gifted. I got over that worry.

Then, I clicked on a WrongPlanet post this past Friday---Narcissism and Asperger's being misidentified. Horror!! ! I wish I had never seen it. Had I read things about narcissism first, I would have swore I was narcissistic. But I am not a cold person. I care about others. I respect others. If someone tells me something, I have a tendency to believe it. That doesn't sound very narcissistic. But...I enjoy being unique. It some ways, it gives me a lot of pleasure to stand out in a crowd because of my uniqueness. This scares me now, because I don't want to be narcissistic---I want to be Asperger's.

Looking at charts between Asperger's and Narcissism, I seem to match more Asperger's traits. But, I do like feeling unique. But, I can say I feel a little awkward/embarassed when someone says something to me like, "Well, I saw your twin on this show the other night---he had Asperger's." Or, at church after I play the organ prelude and there is applause---it makes me feel good, but I also feel very awkward at acknowledging the congregation in thanks because it is so hard for me to display my emotions.

But I just cannot convince myself that I have Asperger's. This is my terrible worry right now and it has consumed my entire day as a teacher at my school. All I have done is research on the computer. My head is hurting, and my eyes are tired. I keep wanting to consume myself in my writing---but I can't for this worry of Narcissism. Please help me ...please.

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