Keeping things to myself, is this an autistic problem?

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I admit to all I have trouble opening up verbally about emotional things while they are ongoing. It is only when they are resolved that I talk about it.

Me to...


Think that's happening to me sometimes...

I feel so good to have resolved something that have made me feeling bad, really anxious, especially a long time, sometimes just feel the need to tell about it to someone ! And this thing I holded ashamed like a secret is suddendly outspoken in a nearly frenetik way...

Sometimes important things but not only... I can feel happy to tell that I did buy stamps and post some important letters... (but I try not to say I had to do it for months )

I think through much of my life I was sort of a "Charlie Brown". You know how Charlie Brown would talk to Linus, droning on and on about whatever life problem or disaster he was going through at the time...and Linus would say, in so many words, "lighten up Charlie Brown"? I notice that if I am going through something, whatever that difficult thing is gets into my head and I can´t get it out...so I pretty much have to talk about it. Does it feel like you´re in one mental "track", and you can´t get out of that track long enough to focus on something else? This is how it feels to me. And yes, I would reveal things to people I barely knew, partly because I couldn´t get out of that track, but also- when I was younger- due to a lack of social awareness. I have tried to work on this, because I finally realized I probably wasn´t very fun to be with. I think it´s gotten much better, it can be worked with, but it takes time. It´s still not perfect, I tend to obsess.

I don´t know if I am very good at giving advice. But, at least I would say to try to be a little careful who you reveal yourself to; I learned the hard way that people can use things against you. People can be cruel and you don´t want it to backfire, so just be careful. Maybe it helps to talk to 1 person extensively, who you can really trust. You might be trying to resolve many emotional issues and this might be your way of doing it. Good luck.

Another Opposite... until you hit my Obsession... then you are doomed!

DOOMED I SAY!