is it an aspie thing 2 feel overwhelmed w emotions/thoughts?

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I have come to the realization recently that I am an aspie and I find myself in many posts here on WP. I have one thing that happens to me that now I am beginning to think is normal for aspies. I am feeling it now too. It's hard to explain but it's as if I have one million thoughts in me and too many emotions at the same time and I am feeling overwhelmed and I can't focus on anything, I am feeling ungrounded. I have anxiety, my tinnitus is worse than ever, I have palpitations and I am feeling very disconnected from myself, as if I am not inside my body. It has been going for 2-3 days now.
This is a result of too much excitement, due to positive things but too much excitement at the same time drives me nuts. I want it to stop because tonight I am going to meet a potential employer, and I need to be able to focus, but in conjunction with the fact that I think I might be falling in love at the same time, not with the employer, with someone I met recently, all this is too much.
I feel as if I am a robot that has a lot of static built up inside their circuits. If I was a computer I would switch off for 20 minutes and then do a complete reboot and maybe run a defrag but I can't do this as a human.
Is this an aspie thing and if so what do you do if anything to stop it and go back to normal? Ideally I would have to take 2 days away from everything, to settle down, but I can't due to tonight's meeting.

NTs also get overwhelmed by their feelings, sometimes. They just seem more able to express their feelings in constructive ways.

Millions of thoughts, mixed and intense emotions, trouble focusing. That is my normal state 95% of the time.

I get overwhelmed with my thoughts and emotions. Sometimes I don't always know what else to do, so screaming and swearing seems to be the only option to get the frustration all out.

NTs get stressed out and anxious and have negative, overwhelming thoughts too, but they seem to know how to deal with it better. They may not be calm, but they just react in a different way to me. I seem to react in the way a toddler may react. Not to the same situations, but just in the same sort of way. I scream and cry and throw myself on the floor. Then I start acting like a teenager by yelling and swearing to my parents and insulting everybody without a second thought, and stomping around slamming doors and sulking in my bedroom. I wish I knew how to be more adult about how I react, I know NTs can sometimes be immature too when they overreact, but I just take the biscuit really. It happens nearly every time I get in a stress about something, and I can't seem to calm down. Just all the emotions and thoughts just get too overwhelming, and I just don't know what else to do. The anger piles up so much that I need a good scream to get it all out, and usually it does get it all out. I can't seem to control these actions all by myself. The anger is too strong for me to just sit calmly. And it is normal to react to negative reactions anyway, because it's called expressing your feelings, and so it's no good bottling it all up inside, so if I bottled it all up inside, it would probably cause me to have a heart attack, the amount of anger that builds up inside me. Plus I suffer with anxiety issues too.

I get overwhelmed quite easily...........and I really don't have good advice on how to more effectively deal with it. Other then my dads side of the families advice 'get drunk.' but in reality that does not actually help just makes you forget for a while. Then the next day when you wake up with a hang over you get to deal with it all on top of a hang over as well.

Yeah I'm way too easily overwhelmed too. Example. Been listening to the same song on repeat for awhile now. The song is so overwhelming it's like all the sadness and happiness in the world stuffed into 3 minutes. Ridiculous but it's exhausting just to listen to. But then I have to listen to it again because the only thing that understands or answers to/soothes the hugeness of the song is the hugeness of the song. Or I could take my dog for a walk. But when I do that it gives me complete free reign to feel and think and again nothing I come upon is more of an answer than what I've already come upon. How many times do you have to learn a lesson for it to be learnt. Exhaaaaaauuuuuusting.

Go running or ride a bike steady for 30 minutes. If I'm feeling stressed, exercise will have me feeling like a zen master for hours afterwards. I think I could back float in a pirahna pool and just chill. Do that before your interview, and I'll bet you'll be a cool cat.

Ah so glad you understand! I was thinking, not sure if you've seen it but the movie 50 First Dates where Drew Barrymore has no long-term memory and wakes up every morning like it's her first day on earth and has to take the shock of everything all over again EVERY SINGLE DAY... I feel like that way too much of the time. I would love to not, enough's enough.

I also get overwhelmed easily.

Sweet Pea hugs