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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 guess the crucial answer for you then, starts with whether you can see that for yourself or not.

    I think I've got the idea behind your 'diagnosis', I just wonder how they tell the difference, and even the idea just seems odd. Obviously we all mimic, that's how every chilkd learns at first before reaching the age where they start to reason for themselves (at about 8, I believe) but AS people tend to get lots of practice at mimicing what we think are 'acceptable' or 'expected' behaviour. That's why 'new' situations can be so terrible, we easily fail to understand what is appropriate speech, behaviour, and conversation for that place/time/location.

    So, if they're saying that you're not on the spectrum but only mimicing the beahviour of an AS family member, then surely that means that you can unlearn those behaviours. Is that what they're offering now?

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  • I guess the crucial answer for you then, starts with whether you can see that for yourself or not.

    I think I've got the idea behind your 'diagnosis', I just wonder how they tell the difference, and even the idea just seems odd. Obviously we all mimic, that's how every chilkd learns at first before reaching the age where they start to reason for themselves (at about 8, I believe) but AS people tend to get lots of practice at mimicing what we think are 'acceptable' or 'expected' behaviour. That's why 'new' situations can be so terrible, we easily fail to understand what is appropriate speech, behaviour, and conversation for that place/time/location.

    So, if they're saying that you're not on the spectrum but only mimicing the beahviour of an AS family member, then surely that means that you can unlearn those behaviours. Is that what they're offering now?

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