Afraid of doing new things

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Are you afraid of doing new things? This morning i just did something great, I just turned on the radio at the accommodation I am in. it has been stting there wth dust all over it and I wanted to listen to the music but that would involve
)1) wiping off the dust
2) turning on the switches
3) attempting to operate the scary unfamiliar controls

and for some reason it was too much unfamiliarity for me. I have no problem doing the breakfast dishes though as I already know how to do them. I hate trying unfamilar things, or too many things.

I dont have the "routines" thing a lot of aspies have, I can be flexble with what I do at what time, but I tend to drive the same routes and be afraid of doing some new things, or trying a new way of doing things when someone suggested if at work for example. I would hate being trained to use something better because I would rather do things in a stupid way I knew than a good way I didnt know. I hate being given instructions by someone else as they often dont line up with my mind and then I have to sort of make sense of their instructions in my own, silly, inefficient way.

does anyone else have this, a fear of doing the unfamiliar?

I know how you feel I think, I am not so regimented as other aspies but loath doing things that are not part of the plan. The upsetting sense of the foreignness of it all. For me when I am flying solo so to speak, its driving somewhere far from home and by that I mean a few cities away. Which can lead to a hard time getting to sleep. However, if it a change of plans with friends of a someone I know, I call a quits for the night.

I have a fear of doing the unfamiliar. It is getting worse

I often fear doing unfamiliar things in a social setting. I love trying new things on my own, or with people I trust.

Thank you for your replies guys...

I had been thinking lately about how i never fulfilled the criteria for routines, i was thinking that maybe I do have routines but they are just not time oriented. I tend to do the same things over again and can be reluctant to introduce new activities into my day, but there does not need to be any particular time thngs happen. Anyway just wanted to see if others had the same thing

I'm so afraid of change, that I'm amazed that I had it in me to have spiked green hair, for two and a half years. That was a change.

Its the reason I am now laid off
Its the rason I do not drive
Its the reason I failed at being in the Army
Its the reason I am Lonely
Its the reason I will die without having children
and the list goes on and on