Is it okay to need to more time?

Hiya,

I am trying to prepare for an MA course by doing the introductory reading, I am currently waiting to be tested for Asperger Syndrome, and I can already feel extremely overloaded after mentally digesting some text and physically exhausted from the anxiety of failing and not taking the right notes.

Therapy does not work

This feeling is very uncomfortable and it has made me very ill already, has anybody got advice about ways to decrease this feeling?

Otherwise I can't get any work done.
I am feeling angry because of what I have to experience.
I want to know if it is okay to need more time to mentally prepare for this new part of my life, university was hellish and I really want to continue studying, but feel that I am not able to be as consistent as others. Which also gets me down, a lot.

Thanks

sure it is ok to take more time. if you are diagnosed,then you can go to the disabilities department at school and get more time to do your work. what ever is needed to help you be successful.

I have nothing to offer to help you not feel that way. I had to drop out of grad school after a semester. not because I didn't think I could be successful or had problems with the work. I was a straight a student. had no problem getting the work done. but my anxiety was so great just being there I couldn't cope with it. I would flee campus. I couldn't see being in that state until I completed school. it just wasn't worth it to me. good luck and take care.

Thank you Kaliope,
I really enjoy learning too and work really hard when I can, before it gets too much then it just stops, because of all the other things like anxiety.
It is annoying, I could be good at the tasks at hand, but it's not so easy for me to just go in there and stick it out, for factors I still cannot explain.