Anxiety and obsessions

I go through a lot of intense anxiety, as well as depression, and generally I'll be worrying to death about things I know I don't need to worry about it, or which I should put aside for now and deal with later. People have always told me I should be able to do this - choose to worry about something later, or dismiss worries from my mind - but this seems utterly impossible to me. 

Is this part of the obsessive way an autistic mind works? I know I obsess over mundane things too which don't cause me anxiety but which I feel compelled to do, and also I get pleasure from obsessing over certain interests. Do we just have to accept this worry as part of the obsessiveness?

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  • only if you do not comply Stuck out tongue

    I like to fixate about collecting statistical data for my special projects, like designing an NT trap, I do not think they would call it normal. but it makes me feel uplifted, while if I do not do it I start worrying and being paranoidal :P

    plus some OCDs are very useful things to have on automatic, like cleanliness for example

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  • only if you do not comply Stuck out tongue

    I like to fixate about collecting statistical data for my special projects, like designing an NT trap, I do not think they would call it normal. but it makes me feel uplifted, while if I do not do it I start worrying and being paranoidal :P

    plus some OCDs are very useful things to have on automatic, like cleanliness for example

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