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Please help

GuitarMan

Hi everyone

Please help. I´m going through diagnosis at the moment and am expecting the results of some tests within a week or so. My problem is that I am suffering huge anxiety and panic. I have waves and waves of anxiousness turning my stomach over, I´m incredibly angry, I´m stimming constantly and I nearly burst into tears in work. I am physically in pain and close to tears again right now.

It´s not even as though I´m 100% sure I´m on the spectrum although it makes perfect sense to me.

Basically I need to get calm somehow and I´m not sure how but I need to try to do it quickly. I´ve already called in sick for tomorrow after only being back at work one day.

Any advice would be hugely appreciated.

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  • I get that description - I'd pretty much got it from the title, but couldn't believe that it might actually be a diagnosis. As I read it, it means that you are the product of an environment created by one or two AS people (parents, parent/sibling) and are copying their behaviours and thus 'presenting as' AS, rather than actually being on the spectrum..

    I find that as odd as I find the concept of 'mild/severe', 'high/low function', etc, that is to say, it doesn't make any sense to me. I'm astonished that someone could be considered able to learn to behave as we do, when they can't be considered to be thinking, experiencing and reacting the way we do.

    In your shoes I think I'd be bewildered by that, it would certainly set my head spinning. I'm not surprised that you disagree. Do you have more assessment to go, or is this final?

    I hope it's an 'initial asessement'!

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  • I get that description - I'd pretty much got it from the title, but couldn't believe that it might actually be a diagnosis. As I read it, it means that you are the product of an environment created by one or two AS people (parents, parent/sibling) and are copying their behaviours and thus 'presenting as' AS, rather than actually being on the spectrum..

    I find that as odd as I find the concept of 'mild/severe', 'high/low function', etc, that is to say, it doesn't make any sense to me. I'm astonished that someone could be considered able to learn to behave as we do, when they can't be considered to be thinking, experiencing and reacting the way we do.

    In your shoes I think I'd be bewildered by that, it would certainly set my head spinning. I'm not surprised that you disagree. Do you have more assessment to go, or is this final?

    I hope it's an 'initial asessement'!

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