AS and Power of suggestion/beleiving too much?

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Is it common for AS people to not be gullible so much as be much more open to the power of suggestion?

I don't know where I stand on things. Any time there's something wrong with me - been dx'd with anxiety, depression and OCD 4 years ago and ADHD this past year (when I told the psych guy I didn't think it fit the bill (and the mess weren't working) and I think it could be AS, he said to me "we can't medicate for AS. I don't think it is (w/o asking any more questions)

sorry. Off topic. Thing is, my wife said I research the hell out of whatever the syndrome du jour is and those symtoms get magnified.

I'm not sure if I'm any more disconnected than usual. I feel this too, and I'm wondering if this is all part of it.

I ask b/c I see so many topics of people scared a councillor will say they don't have AS (and I'm like that too).

I only started asking about AS b/c we are reading about SPD as our child has that (and is exactly like i was/am).

Oh yeah, I need validation for anything and everything

I think my problem is that I consistently think that people are inherently "good" and mean well....probably because I figure that since I'm that way, others are too. Unfortunately, that's not always the case, but I can never tell who is genuine and who is not.

I think it takes so much energy for me to be cautious and mistrusting of people so now, I've just isolated myself even more.

I also need validation for things I do. But that's because I've screwed up a lot of my life.

When i was living down south in Carolina, i moved there for a year. My friends kept telling me about "Snipe hunting" and would ask if i want to go snipe hunting and said snipes come out at night and you catch them. For months i kept asking why they never took me snipe hunting and asked details about it.They said Snipes were rabbitlike and you can catch them with a paperbag. Finally they got tired of me asking why they would never take me snipe hunting and told me it's a southern joke and it's an excuse to get somebody out in the woods to make out etc. I never knew until they told me..

I think I've always been a gullible person, especially where strangers are concerned. And I think one reason for that is that strangers haven't had time to give me a reason for not trusting them. But I don't think I'm very gullible to the power of suggestion, though. I seem pretty dense when it comes to taking suggestions or hints and reading between the lines.

okay, then