Do you get worries that you know aren't true?

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Do you get worries, usually about people you care about and are close to you, where you might worry they're mad at you if they said something and you know they're not mad but can't stop yourself from thinking they are and it makes you feel really sad? Basically, do you get worries where you know something isn't true but it's hard for you to believe it anyway? You can't stop feeling that way, can't change your mind like part of your mind is preventing you from thinking rationally, usually with emotional worries? thanks. It's nice to hear from other people to know what's part of my personality and what's asperger's.

Yeah. Many people I know just say I'm paranoid.

Always. I'm major paranoid about everything.

I definitely get worries like that. Anxiety is strongly correlated with ASDs. You're not alone.

I get worries like that, all the time. There are times, that I'm looking after my dog, for the afternoon, and my parents are late, coming back, and I start to worry that they might have been killed in a car accident. They've always made it home, so far.

All day everyday, I think that's just part of not understanding non verbal communication.

Worry is something I do all the time, even though I know it's never got me anywhere.

I worry about things all the time - with people being mad at me, I think it comes from misunderstanding people and not being able to anticipate their responses - I've had a lot of times where people get mad at me and I'm confused why and other times where I'm sure people would be mad at me and they aren't - but I like to be prepared for the worst.

thanks, it made me wonder especially with things like when someone says something and I know they didn't mean anything rude but my mind tells me it means they don't like me or are at least mad, or don't love me anymore, maybe just like me instead now.

Hm.. I do worry about whether I've made people upset or that they don't like me or that they've changed their minds about me. It's a rather self-centered activity but I can't help myself.
. . .I don't worry about whether I've annoyed my parents though, because I don't really care

Almost every day! My wife's uncle called a couple of days ago to ask about how to give my mother-in-law a call, and I did not recognize the number he said my wife had given him, and my wife had been gone a little longer than usual the day before, and all of that added up to two completely imagined scenarios with potential for personal troubles ahead that are absolutely nowhere even close to reality.

I no longer do this next one as much as in the past, but I can still sometimes worry about what *might* have happened in the past if good things that have since *actually* happened had *not* happened.

This world is a troubled, troubling, confused and confusing place, and we can only survive it together.

I worry about anything and everything that someone could worry about, usually to the point of being completely consumed by it. I've prepared myself for the worst POSSIBLE case scenarios, accepted that they were going to happen, and planned for what I would do afterward, only to find that my fears never realized and often something good came out of the situation.

It's REALLY not good for you, that's all I can say. I've wasted so much time and energy on worrying that it makes me sick, it literally has, too. The physical toll can be a bigger burden than you realize. Try to do find way to cope that work for you. Exercise, vitamins, therapy, possibly medication.

A lifetime of unnecessary worrying just isn't worth it, or fair. I can't believe how much I worry compared to to most of the people I know. Most of the things that we think about never cross most peoples' minds, they shouldn't be the only ones who get to have it so easy

My family members always tell me I worry too much. I worry constantly about people being angry with me. I tend to be a hypochondriac and worry about my own health. I also worry about things like my parents dying in their sleep or on their way to work, or about my mom getting pregnant even though she's been going through menopause for several years.

I worry about things all the time. I always think of what can happen that won't happen.

Yes. Right now I'm worried that I'll be in trouble for failing to get the work done that my boss wants (he's away for 3 weeks and the work is proving rather more difficult than expected). Objectively it's very unlikely that I could be in trouble whatever happens (and I'm not incompetent at the job), and even if I lost the job it wouldn't be that much of a problem, but I won't feel able to relax until it's over.

With people, I'm always thinking that I've said or done something offensive, or not done something they were expecting of me. If I speak, I feel I'm being invasive, or I just worry I may have said the wroong thing. If I don't speak, I worry about being boring or giving the impression that I'm not interested. The better I've done at impressing somebody with my social skills, the more I worry about not being able to follow through next time. If I tell a joke that goes down well, I worry about never being able to think of another joke as good. It's as if I think people are monitoring my every action and waiting for the slightest excuse to judge me worthless. Of course they aren't, as a rule, and I know that, but all this crap rattles round my head regardless.

The only help I've found for it is to try to talk myself down......and I've occasionally found myself telling people about my plight and been given some reassurance, but that only happens with people I feel exceptionally secure with, and there really haven't been very many of those. Normally I'll just keep it all to myself....guess I don't want to be a burden on anybody.