Not coping at work

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I am just completely stuck in this situation. I've had meltdowns, I am too tired to even prepare dinner for myself at home etc. This is a summer job and I have been there for a month and a half, still a month or so to go. Straight after that I start my apprenticeship related to my studies (I have been working there last spring).

I'm not feeling good about going to the doctors asking for sick leave, because 1. I would have to explain myself to a person who likely doesn't know that much about aspergers and 2. I would have to contact my workplace to call in sick and making sure that they do the few things I was supposed to do there. Fortunately my work is quite independent and I have just a few mandatory things to do, such as water the plants in the office and close down a water pipe to a fishpond
Now I have to choose between the two evil and don't know what to do.

My problems at work are not the common type that nt's face and that adds to the reluctance to try and get sick leave.

I don't know what I'm after posting my problem here.. I guess I'm hoping for some sort of a point of view or to help myself decide (writing things down might help me to analyze this constructively)

I just have to drag myself through either one of the options (staying at work and possibly causing a major exhaustion or trying to explain myself to a doctor and my boss).

your first sentence and your last sentence contradict (just to help in keeping your analysis rolling). in other words: there is a difference in what you 'feel' the situation is like and what it may actually be like.