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i am freaking out and fealing unsafe because i changed my room. im 13 and has aspergers. i feel unsafe and like somethings wrong. please advise

My mother used to like to re-arrange the furniture every so often and each time she would disrupt my equilibrium with my surroundings for about three days to a week.

You will get used to it eventually though.

any tips on speeding it up i cant sleep and its 2 weeks before shcool starts again and i need to fix my sleeping schedual i go to bed at 11 but i wake up at 4

I freak out in the same way every time I clean my room....and especially if I move furniture around.

Sometimes it helps me a little bit if I can draw out the changes--e.g. draw a floorplan of my room the way it was, and then draw arrows (or something else) to indicate the movement of whatever I changed/put away.....this is harder to do if I painted the walls or something, but sometimes even just having a "before" and "after" drawing of my room helps my brain to integrate the two as the same. This doesn't make me stop freaking out entirely, but it helps a bit. Dunno if doing this would help you?

If you changed your room by moving things or cleaning, could you put anything back where it was? Maybe having one or two objects where they used to be would help?

The only other suggestion I have is to try to desensitize yourself to your room--spend lots of time in your room during the day. While you're there, try doing something that usually makes you happy--and difficult as it might be, try to focus on that activity instead of on the freaked out/unsafe feelings.

Good luck!

Find something that will distract you from your bedroom until you get used to it's layout. I'm having a little anxiety right now because I'm in my brand new bedroom. I'm not used to it yet.

Uhg, when my mom did that i would first move every thing back the way it was, then i would start rearranging the rest of the house

I wouldn't say that I freak out and feel unsafe when furniture is moved, but it does bother me a bit. More like "woah, this looks different."