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Originally Posted by angelic-bry
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?
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Frankly, I think you are right and your counsellor is very wrong and might I say even probably be endangering you by finding ways to explain things away using your ASD diagnosis.
I would suggest you find help from a psychiatrist. Particularly delusions can (but don't have to) endanger you.
Purely based on what you write (but it seems very clear), your problem might be schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. It's not a risk you wanna take, trust me. Treatment can almost instantly relieve you from those symptoms. I am schizomanic (schizoaffective, bipolar type).
The chance of you having both, based on the genetic basis of both disorders and random sexual selection, is about 0.001–0.01%.