Obsessive rumination

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Do you have this problem? The bad kind where you go over and over an over something that's -well, over? I also have "positive obsessive rumination" where I go over and over something pleasing to me. But loops on bad tracks are easy to get stuck in. Anyone else dealing with this?

yes. every day. =[

yep I have it, which makes it harder for me to know whether I have AS at all, because Schizotypal Personality Disorder (which includes obsessive rumination) apparently excludes/negates AS

YES. All my life. I can remember stuff that happened a long time ago, or a short time ago, and obsess on it, I can have "imaginary conversations" with people from my past who've hurt me, and what I'd like to say to them, and probably what they'd say back.... etc.... I have to really try to distract myself to not do this, espesh when I mess up and do something stupid, and then replay it over and over, or when I do something wrong, but I don't know what, and some interaction with someone else obviously went wrong, but I have no idea exactly how... I replay it over and over, and I sometimes I even think--hey! THEY were the rude one, why am I in trouble? I don't get it! so I go over it and over it, and want someone else to tell me that it was really not my fault, it was the other person being rude, but then if that's true, then every single other human in the world is rude.... so since that's not likely, I'm back around to it being me.... AAAAAAAAAHH!

Yeah, all my life. It feeds a lot of my anxiety.

And I do have positive rumination too.

I've had it all my life, too. It's mostly negative ruminations, but I do have positive ones. I've been taking an SSRI and I noticed it has helped with it somewhat.

Yes.