Asperger's and OCD

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I'm just curious to see how many people on Wrong Planet have both diagnosed Asperger's syndrome and OCD. Research shows that 30% of people with A.S have also been diagnosed with OCD, one of them being me.

My husband has Aspergers and severe OCD.

I've been labeled both.

Screened with AS by Cambridge tests, and diagnosed with juvenile depression, and adult GAD and OCD.

I've been diagnosed with both.

I've actually been taking Zoloft (Sertraline) for OCD and it really made my anxiety more manageable. Are you guys (or your loved ones) on any kind of med or seeing a therapist? BOTH were beneficial for me. Once in a great while, I get an intrusive thought stuck and playing like a broken record in my mind which drains my energy like there's no tomorrow, but it only lasts up to an hour if even. I think OCD is like some short circuit in the brain, it particularly affects the basal ganglia and I think the amygdala of the brain. I know the amygdala is responsible for processing emotions especially fear. What I notice is that anxiety can affect my memory, like if I have a lot of persistent anxiety one day, I may forget something that occurred about an hour ago. It's probably due to anxiety raising cortisol levels in the brain...? I'm not entirely sure, does anybody here know why Aspies tend to have higher rates of anxiety than neurotypicals? Can somebody provide an in-depth explanation involving specific brain regions and activities occuring within the brain?

I'm diagnosed with OCD but not Aspergers thou I am pretty sure I have Aspergers. My OCD is manged well by the medication Neurontin/Gabapentin)

Though I don't have a diagnosis for OCD, I'm genuinely curious as to whether or not I have it along with Aspergers (which I was diagnosed with in 2003-2004 I think, I was in 5th grade).

I write and draw a lot, and have gotten a lot of stupid, intrusive thoughts regarding idiotic subjects about how what I'm doing is pointless and how so and so favorite character is better off dead or something (some of which I have a deep personal connection to. I'm more than aware they're not real, yet I can relate so much to them and want them to be happy, etc.). Like I said, it's stupid, yet it makes me feel like everything I do is crap. Though that's not even counting the times I worried about doing something horrible to my family members or people or religious anxieties, etc. I can reason the former ones as just stupid thoughts that are mere reflections of my own inadequacies, yet the latter really disturb me and I hate those the most.