Anxiety & ASD

Hi,

I'm going to be contacting my GP soon about pursuing a diagnosis, but I am finding that when I start thinking about the possibility of having some form of ASD that I get anxious and I get a recurrence of a twitch that I have developed since Christmas due to the stress of issues in my personal life.

I understand that anxiety and ASD go frequently find themselves hand-in-hand, do others here since diagnosed have track records of anxiety? I used to be a very anxious child and although gradually this dissipated as I got towards my late teens it has persisted in the area of relationships, though the twitch is a new thing.

Hearing of others' experiences is a big comfort to me currently; I don't want to say that I'm pinning my hopes on a diagnosis as if it was to be negative it doesn't paint a very nice picture of my behaviour.

Parents
  • My anxiety level has gone down since I got my diagnosis. I guess that's because I now know what my issue is. I'm not worried about it anymore because I know.

    Not knowing what was happening to me and why I didn't fit in too well was what was causing most of my anxiety issues.

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  • My anxiety level has gone down since I got my diagnosis. I guess that's because I now know what my issue is. I'm not worried about it anymore because I know.

    Not knowing what was happening to me and why I didn't fit in too well was what was causing most of my anxiety issues.

Children
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