Can autsim get worse?

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For the past 3 weeks I have been having a lot of nervous break downs and needing lots of attention, this usually only happen once a week.
Is my autism getting worse? Will this ever go back to normal? Nervous break down are not fun...

I'm not sure I follow, but I'm going to assume the following:

Your having more emotional "Melt-downs" which is what we say here. And you maybe shutting down, too. Our ultimate defense mechanism.

First question: What is triggering these episodes?
2nd Question: Is it something new?
Third Question: Are your episodes getting worse?

If its something in the enviroment, maybe it can be fixed. I'm not sure autism gets "Worse" but we can find ourselves in situations that cause worse responses certainly.

Sincerely,
Matthew

Can it get worse? I'm not sure worse is the right word, but the degree of "symptoms" can increase. If you turn the volume of music up, it's the same music, but it's louder. The tricky part is finding the volume switch on the autism.

It may not be worse, but things around you could be inducing a lot of stress. I'm working two jobs and at times I feel as though I'm about to crash as a result. NOw I think that some of our sensory issues may not improve, save becoming more sensitive to them. But I'd follow Matt62's suggestion . . . take a good look at what all is going on in your life now and see what could be going on.

I don't know about worse. People change as they get older, and so do you. I am a lot more anxious than I have ever been, but that's because things have changed since I became an adult, and so I've changed with it. And so certain things may look like they gotten worse, when really it's because I've changed, socially and emotionally. Like now my emotions come out in a different way compared to when I was a child, because of maturity, and so it feels harder to handle certain things without throwing myself on the floor screaming and kicking my legs, because I do not want to do that at age 21, and so that might be why my anxiety has gotten worse. When you're a small child you can get away with having temper tantrums without people thinking you gone insane, but as an older child and adult, you learn to deal with these unfair things in life and so don't express your feelings by throwing yourself on the floor screaming and kicking your legs. So really I have got better, because I tell people I'm anxious and why, and I may have some tears, and I may even have the odd outburst when things get too much for me, but generally, I deal with day-to-day challenges like an adult. So, yes, I have got better. But my anxieties have gotten worse because I am unable to express my feelings like a toddler would - which looks a better way to let it all out at once.

But I suppose everybody feels the same - my friend says she sometimes wishes she could lay on the floor screaming at times instead of having to deal with her problems maturely.

It CAN get worse, yes. Mine gets worse due to Seizures and Migraines, but it doesn't HAVE to get worse because of that. It CAN get better again though.