Lilith, Mother of DarknessMar 8

Do any of you #actuallyautistic fedifriends jump immediately to the worst case scenario when you are worried about something?

I was just reading about autism and catastrophising, and immediately recognised myself in this. Almost every single time I start worrying about something, it takes only a few moments for me to start thinking "I'm screwed, my family is screwed, everything is going to go horribly wrong and I'm going to end up dead or living in a cardboard box under a bridge. Probably with cancer."

No matter how insignificant the actual situation is.

Show threadeazyMar 8
@Lunalucardrose20 yes, all the time. Starting to think it's a feature of #autism mixing with #cptsd where my #hypervigilance uses my pattern matching to skip to the conclusion.
Show threadLilith, Mother of Darkness
@eazy This was what I was thinking, too.
Mar 8 at 3:14amWeb
Show threadKevin DavyMar 8
@Lunalucardrose20 @eazy
This is how we tend to work. In the sea of possibility, work out what's worst and then once we have a play book to deal with that, anything less is a bonus.
Show threadLilith, Mother of DarknessMar 8
@pathfinder @eazy Damn, well said.
Show threadFlesh & bone by the telephoneMar 8

@pathfinder
@Lunalucardrose20 @eazy Our brains want to prepare for anything, because we've experienced too many situations where the worst actually happened.

That doesn't mean that our brain is able to prepare, unfortunately.

Show threadeazyMar 8
@pathfinder @Lunalucardrose20 That's exactly how I deal with everything
Show threadLilith, Mother of DarknessMar 8
@eazy It seems a lot of us do this.