Hi,
I'm 22, and recently diagnosed with ASD.
I recently found out that my grandmother has stage 4 pancreatic cancer. I'm extremely stressed out about this, and don't know what to do.
It took me 8 years of near constant suffering, but I've finally found a young woman who likes me, and we're starting a relationship. She is overwhelmingly positive and sweet, but I periodically get extremely stressed about this. This largely subsided after she reacted very positively to my Valentine's day message and congratulated me with it, but I still get disturbing thoughts when she doesn't immediately respond (most recently, a thought that she blocked me. Obviously turned out incorrect, but that's what I felt). I'm supposed to be going out with her on Saturday, and extremely anxious.
On top of that, I'm finding it difficult in university. I was recently bullied out of a society because of two people who had fabricated a report against me. After theirs was thrown out and my report triggered an investigation when I provided sufficient evidence that they fabricated their report, I lost 16 friends from that society.
Yesterday, someone who did not contribute to my experiment at all (literally doing 0% of it and distracting everyone the first time) began saying I did everything incorrectly and demanding explanations, which caused me to shut down and freeze. My friend, who had previously angrily said 'He was ill' when I asked him what he was doing by not contributing, also angrily addressed me and asked me to explain it to him, who was saying things like 'OK, I'll assume that was a yes' (although she apologised later).
Finally, I'm having problems in my accommodation. A spoilt, entitled person living with us has taken a habit of blaming absolutely everything that goes wrong in the kitchen on me. He has, for example, claimed that I broke our oven and microwave (despite being absent both times) and went whining to the property management when I said those who did not use the bins should not take them out, causing the property management to threaten everyone with fines.
Finding it very stressful and difficult at times.
