Obsessive behaviours and AS.

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I have AS and it has been said by a social worker that I may have OCD. I just want to know, how can I tell if my obsessive behaviours are an OCD problem or related to AS?

I count everything, and it must be a prime number (ie if I drink a cup of tea and I get to 17 sips but there's some left in the cup, but not enough to make it 19 sips, I will throw the rest of the tea away).

If I enter a clothes shop (not that I do that very often) and the clothes are not sorted out in order, I will reorganise all the clothes on the racks into a logical order. People have come up to me and asked me if I work there because I was sorting the clothes out so fervently.

I also have tics and I get "intrusive thoughts" that won't go away. I know they are my thoughts (as opposed to the thought insertion I get when I'm acutely ill - I have schizophrenia), but I cannot stop thinking those thoughts and they're really quite disturbing too. These thoughts disrupt me from my work.

I don't know whether to bring this up with my psychiatrist on Monday in a possible OCD sense, or to leave it? If it is AS, I'll leave it for my occupational therapist/care co-ordinator to talk about.

Well one thing i have found with AS is I'm constantly thinking and very rapidly at times mainly for me I'll develop an obsession with researching certain products etc that will last a short while or thinking things through in my head like how to make something work etc,but negative stuff can definitely slip in there I've found,the only odd obsessive behaviour i've noticed with myself is when walking past people head on in the street i will grab at my neck,although it seems to have gone away recently,but honestly learn as much as you can about AS and others with the problem and read through as much here as possible and it should help you manage it a bit better and try and stay positive as you can. good luck. And by the way if I were you,I'd be finding a good psychologist,that has good knowledge of AS,rather than a psychiatrist,who may just patch the problem up with drugs,rather than actually working through it properly.

It probably depends on the sort of intrusive thoughts. Sometimes they can be extraordinary funny and I dont want to miss that. And I love your cup story, thats me in every possible situation with any imaginable "superfluous" system.

Thanks.

I don't have a psychologist now, but my psychiatrist is trying to get me one on the NHS.

I do get obsessive interest almost every waking hour of my life.

Maje, I actually do get funny thoughts sometimes too now that I think of it. But the disturbing thoughts outbalance the funny thoughts.