For me, I worry too much. About everything (both little and big). That makes positive thinking difficult.
Dr. Tony Attwood discusses this penchant for worrying in a November 2, 2010 interview with Autism Women’s Network’s . See link at: http://transcribery.wordpress.com/2010/ ... y-attwood/
Quote:
It [just seems?] that those with Asperger’s Syndrome are very good at worrying. They’re natural worriers. And that can make you a bit pessimistic because you’re worried about what could go wrong. And anybody who is anxious tries to cope with it, and the ways people in general try to cope with it is to become controlling in your life. That is, to avoid certain situations where you may become anxious, frightened, or etc.
But you also have routines and rituals to calm you down, and if someone takes those away, how are you going to cope? And the interest is not only a source of enjoyment intellectually. What the interest does is act as a thought blocker to keep away anxious, negative thoughts. So when someone’s anxious, the emotion of anxiety isn’t a bad emotion. It’s a survival emotion for fear of animals eating you, for example, but it’s how you cope with it and the intensity that can be the problem for the person with Asperger’s Syndrome.
It describes me to a “T”.
28 Dec 2013, 8:05 pm
