Is anyone else on here afraid of negative responses?

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Any form of criticism makes me want to cry and hide under a blanket. However, sometimes I am self-deprecating, so that never ends well...

I am not sure if I understand all of the posts here but I am afraid of anything negative. I am diagnosed with Aspergers and anxiety disorders.
My biggest thing, which I think was discussed is the black and white, or in my case incredibly big, all encompassing blackness and the little tiny dot of white. I am a very imperfect perfectionist. Any criticism I get if it is at all based on a smidgeon of fact I reflect on myself as a horrible condemnation. I can agree that the feeling is logically wrong, but I cant turn off the feeling that I have failed everyone.

Yep, it may not feel like it but for most people, when they criticise they're not trying to invalidate your whole person, just point out a fault.

There are however, some exceptions. I remember one time I almost bumped into this really fat guy and in response he started shouting obscenities at me and calling me all kinds of unprintable names.

Yes, sometimes since I post about sorta-stupid things.

I'm the same, I dread critisism and negative remarks so much so that I avoid talking to people so I don't get any. I'm really paranoid about people discussing me and thinking bad of me even though I know deep down its my own head thats doing it. I used to just think was messed up in the head and that one day I would be like all the normal peoplewhen I got older. I got older and it never happened then I found out about aspergers and things started to fall in place. I think I've accepted it now that I'm never going to grow out of this and just try to deal with it the best I can.