Anxiety documentary

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I have autism & I've created a documentary about my daily struggles with anxiety. Please tell me what you think.The link is bellow!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdfTaMYNAoc

Last edited by AlexWelshman on 20 Mar 2013, 1:07 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Where's the video?

[quote="League_Girl"]Where's the video?[/quote] I 4got to share it! I'll try it now!

I also suffer from anxiety but yours sounded more like OCD. The excessive worrying for one and the needing to organize and dwelling on things and not let it go. I don't understand how you don't have OCD.

Well, what of it I could hear over my kids was pretty good.

I very much identify with needing to reorganize DVDs. With me its books. I also tend to do other peoples' housework just because my hands have to stay busy. I cannot bear to sit idle and will chainsmoke if I have nothing else to do.

League_Girl
But the fact is, I wouldn't say with the DVD example that I'm quite OCD, because I think people with OCD tend to feel something bad will happen to them if they don't straighten DVD's or whatever, as for me it's not quite like that. I'm also not even an (everything has t be perfect) guy in every aspect of my life. There are some things that I don't care about. I don't care if there's things on the floor. Quite simply; I haven't got the OCD traits in every way, so I don't think I have OCD, but maybe I have a mild case of it.
I also didn't mention every bit o my anxiety. I also get terrifyed when I've made a mistake. I worry that everyone's going to look at me & think I'm an idiot, & I'll be panicing. I did plan on adding that, but I didn't get to.

Well I'm diagnosed with OCD and I never thought anything bad will happen. What bad things? But the stuff you mentioned I could relate and if you don't have it, could I have been misdiagnosed? I was told it was all OCD and AS and OCD is a component of AS. I have gotten better so I am not as extreme as I used to be. I bet it really depends on the professional you see. Some may say you have OCD and some others may say you don't.

Also worrying about what people think sound like thinking something bad will happen and that is them thinking they may think you are an idiot.

@League_Girl
Yeah it probably does depend on the poffessional you see. I've never been tested for OCD, so I suppose it could bec OCD.

it was great! the first part sounds like me (except that i will likely miss my stop because i probably WAS on the wrong bus lol)

ditto

There have been way too many discussions in my house on proper organization. My husband wants everything alphabetized, and I'm okay with everything grouped by size. When I moved our cd's to a closed cabinet (everything's on the computer now), I came home to find him putting them in "proper" order before repacking them away.
Very good video...

"it was great! the first part sounds like me (except that i will likely miss my stop because i probably WAS on the wrong bus lol"

Well, I actually don't really get on a bus unless I know it's the right one.

well... i guess that you're lucky, that you don't have so much anxiety that you make stupid mistakes? it's because of my anxiety that it sometimes happens to me.

I thought your video was great - it explained things well and gave good examples and it summed the problem up exactly . . . .

it reminded me when I was being assessed and I had a job to explain why I wanted to take down the information that was pinned up on a cork board and put it up slightly differently . . . they couldnt see that it wasn't plumb...
I knew it didn't matter, but it affected me -- like you I havent got OCD but these things can make me feel uncomfortable... and to sort it out would reduce my anxiety etc...


good video !

@hyperlexian

I actually do sometimes have anxiety to the point where I make stupid mistakes, but genrueally not when it comes to getting on a bus, since I only really get on buses that I'm familia with. It does happen in other things though & when it comes to a mistake that I think people could have noticed, that also makes me feel anxious.

BTW, out of interest (to anyone who's seen it); from watching this video; what type of autism do you reckon I have?

i can't really tell. maybe PDD-NOS?