Published on 12, July, 2020
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I am 23 yrs and was diagnosed two yrs ago with asperger's syndrome. I also have constant anxiety-health anxiety, things going wrong, obsessions and panic-and I am always hyper alert, can never relax which is extremely annoying. However, at least I can go into shops, travel on public transport and eat out now. Two years ago, I hardly ever left the house and could not walk past people in the street, but since my diagnosis I have received lots of support from social workers. Without this support, I dread to think where my phobias could have led.
I like to be in control of my life and I need to plan things in advance, but I do like variety, so long as it is within a basic structure and routine. I have had, in the past but not so much now, extreme interests, so extreme that I could think about nothing else: Food, Titanic, actress Kate Winslet and babies (in that order). My Kate Winslet obsession lasted the longest, but I am not interested in her at all now. But when I was interested in her, I got very upset if I could not indulge my interest, to the point of having tantrums!