Anxiety overload

You have hit on the key to the problem though, chocolate buttons, we tend to think only negative thoughts. We lack enough positive good thoughts to keep us off the negative.

Whether its the way people react to us in social situation, the way people take advantage of us, the assumptions people make about autism that leads to overly simplistic solutions, the environments we live in that suit NTs but don't suit us, and the people who think we are missing out if we don't get involved in NT life.

You need to start your own personal library of positive thoughts. Everybody needs positives, but people on the spectrum need to work hard at it. I used to try to remember a few good points out of each day before going to sleep (I still do but I've built up a strong positive library now).

You'll probably have to go out of your way to find, develop or acquire these positives, but it is beneficial.

Otherwise it is very easy to build up anxieties with one negative consequence after another, or six different directions of negativity to explore for each level of negativity. Try to think of six positive directions as well, and try to spend just as much time on the six positives each level as you do on the negatives. Eventually you will find it easier to block the negative options with positive ones.

You have hit on the key to the problem though, chocolate buttons, we tend to think only negative thoughts. We lack enough positive good thoughts to keep us off the negative.

Whether its the way people react to us in social situation, the way people take advantage of us, the assumptions people make about autism that leads to overly simplistic solutions, the environments we live in that suit NTs but don't suit us, and the people who think we are missing out if we don't get involved in NT life.

You need to start your own personal library of positive thoughts. Everybody needs positives, but people on the spectrum need to work hard at it. I used to try to remember a few good points out of each day before going to sleep (I still do but I've built up a strong positive library now).

You'll probably have to go out of your way to find, develop or acquire these positives, but it is beneficial.

Otherwise it is very easy to build up anxieties with one negative consequence after another, or six different directions of negativity to explore for each level of negativity. Try to think of six positive directions as well, and try to spend just as much time on the six positives each level as you do on the negatives. Eventually you will find it easier to block the negative options with positive ones.