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05 Dec 2008, 10:44 pm

I'm just curious. I'm 18 years old and i've been recently diagnosed with Asperger's. I was wondering if anyone else has paranoia. Mine happens in like episodes, like one thing that doesn't bother me one day will make me very anxious the next. It also cycles in severity, like one day I will be okay and then the next I don't want to go anywhere by myself. It's very confusing and stressful to me. :(



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05 Dec 2008, 10:47 pm

I get paranoid I'm being watched when I'm out, but then me and my mum were stalked when I was younger, so whether that's AS related (the paranoia, I doubt the stalking was AS related.)



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05 Dec 2008, 10:51 pm

I'm wondering if it just has to do with severe anxiety, because I have it BAD and have been trying to overcome it for about 9 years.



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05 Dec 2008, 10:54 pm

Thinking about it further, I used to be real paranoid, specifically, that people were looking at me. So anxiety related is quite probable. I would recomend using logic to get round what ever your paranoid about, intellectualise it. It probably wont work immediately, but if you keep repeating in your head all the rational reasons your paranoia is illogic it should go away.



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05 Dec 2008, 10:57 pm

Yeah. I try that. Sometimes it works right away and sometimes it just doesn't help.People(or myself) just can't rationalize with me sometimes when i'm in these 'moods'.



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05 Dec 2008, 11:00 pm

I'm a little paranoid at times, but it's justified. :? What with all the sh** I dealt with in school...


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05 Dec 2008, 11:49 pm

I have severe paranoia. The government and aliens from another galaxy are after me. I have a special purpose for the aliens and last week or early this week (don't remember because I don't have a good memory) I heard the UFO's over my house. Then the week before I saw green balls of light streaking everywhere and they were communicating with me. I heard footsteps of cloaked FBI agents in my house. The government is after me because they think I influence the economy and the stock market. I didn't do it! Just because my predictions are dead on accurate doesn't mean anything. I wrote the predictions on this site. People stare at me because of my unusual thoughts. I have severe thought insertion and thought broadcasting. The thought insertion is from the government and aliens and they told me I have a bomb powerful enough to destroy an entire state in my neck. I also have nanobots inside of me and am turning into a robot. I have felt the nanobots crawl inside of me. In case you are wondering about my weird thoughts, yes, I have been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. How evil! My doctors go to Evil Medical School like Dr. Evil and all they teach is that tell all your patients that they are crazy and schizophenic. I don't believe my diagnosis because even though I hear an occasional voice, it isn't often enough to be like the hearing voices in schizophrenia. Just remember, I know all! I'm a better doctor than my doctors! I can diagnose because I have a DSM IV. My brother has everything in the book and I am perfectly sane except for the autism. My brother (this one should be added in the next DSM) has "annoying brother syndrome." I almost expect my psychiatrist to say, just like Dr. Evil in Austin Powers, "I will hold the world ransom for $100 billion dollars!" and hold his pinky finger to his face. I love that movie!



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06 Dec 2008, 12:34 am

I'm kind of paranoid. I think everyone in my neighborhood hates me and secretly wants me dead. Whenever I go out for a run, I half expect somebody to purposely run me over with their car. And every time I make a DeviantArt account, I'm terrified that somebody from Encyclopedia Dramatica will create an article about me and my artwork, so I always wind up taking down said account.

I also think that my sister and her husband secretly hate me. I think my sister may be conspiring against me in order to ruin the close relationship I have with our mom out of jealousy. And so, I keep careful tabs on everything my sister and her husband say and do when I'm around. I wait for them to say or do something that could be taken as "rude" to me, so that I have evidence to confirm my fears. This particular bit of paranoia is partially grounded in reality, as several years ago, my brother told me that our sister used to pick him up from school for the sole purpose of being able to say horrible things about me she couldn't say in front of anyone else. Things like, "Alex exaggerates her mental illnesses to get attention", "Alex's Asperger's isn't really that bad, she just doesn't want to go to school or work because she's lazy" (which, by the way, is coming from someone who has one year's less of an education than I do) and "Alex always makes mom feel sorry for her".



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06 Dec 2008, 12:43 am

I hope FireBird is being sarcastic. It was a nice read either way.


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06 Dec 2008, 5:45 am

Yes. I get flare-ups of paranoia. And it is confusing and stressful.

Yesterday was the most recent: seriously considering whether someone I see regularly (& is very caring) is doing it to gain control of my life and destroy it; whether the doc is doing the same and is an abuser; whether the other people I see regularly in services are manipulative and only pretending to care; whether the psych I saw this spring secretly withheld access to services. When going for walks, I check that those approaching from behind are not wielding knives or following me home.

It reads as moderate to severe. But is mild compared to that associated with psychosis since there is nearly always a small shred of awareness that the thoughts aren't totally based in reality. I'm sure it's a result of not being able to read people; they are very confusing and inconsistent.



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06 Dec 2008, 5:47 am

I used to be paranoid alot back in my hometown, everywhere i went i saw someone that hated me, and it got me paranoid that all those people who i don't know most likely know someone who hates me, and since they're already friends and probably better socially then me, its only a matter of time before they get manipulated into hating me.


Now, being 3000km away from that, i feel alot more at peace with myself, and don't feel like there's haters around every corner. Its a source of minor bliss :)



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06 Dec 2008, 5:51 am

blue_eyes90 wrote:
Yeah. I try that. Sometimes it works right away and sometimes it just doesn't help.People(or myself) just can't rationalize with me sometimes when i'm in these 'moods'.


just contradict the negative feelings. that's how i got over it. i was in a bad state. anxiety attacks almost weekly.
i know how bad it can get.



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06 Dec 2008, 8:30 am

I'm paranoid, at least, I tend to. I have severe difficulties trusting anyone, though I believe I have good reasons to be paranoid. I learned there aren't much discrete, sincere people. I say this because many people have let me down, just to become more popular or get attention. I was bullied by my so-called ''friends'', who actually tried to be good, however, when they had the ability to get more popular they bullied me.

I think it's also due to autism in general. Nevertheless a lot of aspies/auties have been bullied and abused in the past, or in current life, I think it has to do with autism as a sort of trait. Even is you were never bullied. I think it has to do with the fact autists have a hard time figuring out what a person's intentions are, why he does a thing, why he says that, etc. It's easy then to think of the worst, you are in a safe position, because when your paranoid thoughts were right, you aren't that shocked or disappointed, and when you were wrong, you are extremely relieved and happy.


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06 Dec 2008, 9:18 am

i know everyone thinks i am paranoid.
last week at the tavern i saw a person (who i did not know) who was looking away from me and i realized he was frightened by his misperception that i had paranoia.
i tapped him on the shoulder, and when he turned around i said "who the hell are you calling paranoid?!?!"
he acted like it was a surprise and then i knew he was part of a syndicate.
i then witnessed the "fbi plants" behind the counter on the phone to who i presume was the president.

(this is all a joke)

people who are truly paranoid should realize that they are not so important that anyone needs to take serious notice of them.



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06 Dec 2008, 9:28 am

Don't believe its paranoia.

With all the negative responses I have received from people over the years you become very self conscious. Negative obsessive thoughts sound familiar from high levels of anxiety.



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06 Dec 2008, 9:34 am

i care not for other peoples appraisals of my efforts.

if i can climb a tree faster than a monkey, then i am not going to gloat with the monkeys about it.