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Anxiety & ASD

KeyboardWorrier68

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.

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  • I suffer huge anxiety issues, up until recently assumed to be related to bullying at school but now thinking more to do with potential aspergers. In secondary school Inhad a number of short term nervous twitches which only made things worse. Luckily they stopped after leaving school.

    Knowing what I know now I think my social interaction issues and not knowing how to intract with people resulted in being more of a loner, people picking up on this started bullying because I was an easy target, and it's easy to see how this continued to cause issues.

    I'm hoping I can find better ways to cope with social anxietyissues based on coping mechanisms aimed at people with aspergers/hfa.

    I am not yet sure if I want to try and get an official diagnosis and not sure how I would feel if I did get one. Would I be more self concious?

    Of course, I'm massively overthinking and analysing this constantly :)

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  • I suffer huge anxiety issues, up until recently assumed to be related to bullying at school but now thinking more to do with potential aspergers. In secondary school Inhad a number of short term nervous twitches which only made things worse. Luckily they stopped after leaving school.

    Knowing what I know now I think my social interaction issues and not knowing how to intract with people resulted in being more of a loner, people picking up on this started bullying because I was an easy target, and it's easy to see how this continued to cause issues.

    I'm hoping I can find better ways to cope with social anxietyissues based on coping mechanisms aimed at people with aspergers/hfa.

    I am not yet sure if I want to try and get an official diagnosis and not sure how I would feel if I did get one. Would I be more self concious?

    Of course, I'm massively overthinking and analysing this constantly :)

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