Feel like a bad person after the mistakes I’ve made

I have been behaving very inappropriately with one certain friend the burner phone going over his uninvited back months ago but he always comes back in the end but feel I don’t deserve it. As a person with ASD and ADHD I react out of impulse do now think later instead of it being the other way around. I am trying to change my ways but I worry about him I’m obsessive over him but I am working on improving that and I have made some improvements like seeing my other friends going to board game groups even having days where we don’t speak we just say good night and that’s it. I feel like a bad person all these mistakes people say it’s me being human but what sort of a human being goes out to buy a burner phone just to check up on a friend who wants space after a falling out? What drove me to it other than impulse I really don’t know and the worse thing about it is I can’t even tell the people involved the truth without driving them away. I know my behaviour is inappropriate but I always act before I think I get paranoid and think worse case scenario and then I have to do something about it instead of thinking stop think use logic. I have contacted the mind charity to see if I can get therapy because I know I need to stop my behaviour before it gets worse. But how can I swap the act and think over? I am really struggling with that one. 

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  • I hear you - the good thing is - you have identified there is an issue and that you want to change it.  Well Done.  You are also actively seeking out help - another Well Done.  It certainly is challenging distracting our minds from the thing they are focused on.  What kind of human buys a burner phone?  A desperately lonely one.  Does it help if you try think of how hurt the person on the other side would feel if they knew about it?  Somehow try to put yourself in their space?  I dunno - but I hope it works out for you

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  • I hear you - the good thing is - you have identified there is an issue and that you want to change it.  Well Done.  You are also actively seeking out help - another Well Done.  It certainly is challenging distracting our minds from the thing they are focused on.  What kind of human buys a burner phone?  A desperately lonely one.  Does it help if you try think of how hurt the person on the other side would feel if they knew about it?  Somehow try to put yourself in their space?  I dunno - but I hope it works out for you

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