Appointments

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Does having Aspergers make you want to cancel doctors appointments or cancel other things? When you have an appointment, do you cancel, cuz you not feeling well & you are a little depressed? I cancel a lot of appointments, cuz I was depressed or I was in pain & can't walk.

For anxiety reasons, sure, I've avoided all types of things including doctor's appointments. I suck at making appointments myself too, it kills me for some reason but I've gotten a lot better at this the last couple years.

Yeah I do this, among other things I don't do. I don't know if this would be asperger's causing it as I'm not diagnosed and I feel like I fall halfway b/w NT and aspie. It seems to stem from anxiety but I'm unsure if that's it. I feel there's this wall or block in my way of doing things sometimes that is extremely hard to get around.

I've had a few appointments recently and I am so sick of them. I don't cancel them, even if I don't want to go, because I'm too conscientious. But they stress me out because I have to be somewhere at a specific time and place. I stress about being late and finding a parking spot, or just plain driving to and finding the place if I've never been there before.

I'm not yet diagnosed, but making appointments is OK for me. It's actually picking up the phone and calling someone to make the appointment that causes me the most anxiety! I avoid using phones if at all possible, otherwise I struggle communicating... long awkward pauses make me really uncomfortable.

Not that I am much better face-to-face but I think seeing the other persons face helps!