Is it normal for some aspies to have big anxiety issues?

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I get huge anxiety about stuff sometimes, for example I get anxious trying to get a hold of people, waiting for stuff in the mail sometimes, PMS, I get anxious about my weight. Does anyone here get really anxious?

Why hasn't anyone here answered my simple question?

Anxiety is highly common for autistic folk. Some of the symptoms of autism can actually be worsened by, or preceded by anxiety.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31852214/

Yes, I have anxiety as well. Over the weekend, I attended a convention and made a poor choice to drink two cups of coffee. Without being aware, someone's service dog notified her owner so I could interact with her. I also talked with her owner who said that I should not have coffee at all. She said it's better to drink things that have B6 in them instead of the alternative. In fact, I ended up crashing in the middle of my Sunday at the convention and didn't feel like interacting with anything. So I left early and spent the rest of my con at home yesterday.

Actually, I am still recovering from the convention and I am in tears

^ Sorry to hear you are upset, ST.

Feel better, soon.

Yes..am thinking anxiety can be a common trait amongst Aspies...and it is harder to process not having good support
due to societal issues ..Support makes anxiety easier to deal with . But now , i believe the basic tenet of bigger media , is to make money by inducing anxiety in the masses, cause, in their words " Anxiety sells" so you can guess the effects on the entire population at large . But will not go into the downstream effects of this for people being afraid to gather together,due to fear induced anxiety. To lessen opposition to any gov. decisions .??.

Anxiety is my middle name. John Anxiety Zoidberg.

Anyway yeah, I think it's pretty common. My anxiety was horrific back in high school, to the point of me dropping out because I just could not get through a day without a completely losing my s**t. Even now that I have much better control of it, it's still there, rockin in the back of my head at all times.

Very common! I believe when I was assessed I was in the 96th percentile of people for anxiety. Some of my autistic relatives are anxious too.

Autism can cause or contribute to us having lots of various problems. It's common for a history of bad experiences to cause anxiety. Taking longer to process things, a need for routine & predictability, not instinctively knowing the right way to act in social situations, others tending to misjudge & mistreat us can lead to bad anxiety. My anxiety was very bad at one point but being on the right psych meds helps a lot as well as being in a better living situation & a long-term stable relationship. I've tried to work on myself in various ways & tried to address some of my anxiety causes.

I was diagnosed with Anxiety Disorder many years ago. In the summer of 2017, I had my first ever anxiety attack and it was a big one. Back then, I confused it for having some kind of stroke. Since then, I've lost control of my fight or flight instincts. An small to medium anxiety attacks come and go at random. Sometimes I take deep breaths until it goes away and it immediately comes back. Now I keep them at bay with yet another medication.