Published on 12, July, 2020
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?
only if you do not comply
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
Wish I had that one... my flat is a tip!
My ex used to complain, that I can go only to extremes, no middle ground, I do not find it a bad thing, to the contrary, and my my point is we can be on both ends
I’m also a case of being one extreme or the other in most of the ways I live or things I do.