Ever since I was little, I've had these constant thoughts mostly about dying/being murdered and being under surveillance by hidden cameras.

Sometimes they're distressing; they stop me sleeping at night and really scare me. Most of the time I just accept them as true though, and do what my thoughts tell me to.

However when I talked to my counsellor about this, she said these thoughts were just part of my autism.

I know OCD is quite common in autistic people, so that's probably also worth looking into. I think I might also be filling out a preliminary questionnaire to see if I might have OCD soon (though to be honest, the reasons why they thought I had OCD were just autistic traits).

What I don't believe is that having such distressing thoughts is just part of autism. So I guess the reason I'm posting here is to see whether other people think I'm right with that assumption. There's got to be something else, surely? Or at least, there's a possibility that it's something else?