anxiety yea...

there are a lot of options.....

medication (natural/herbal)]

sport...

meditation..? yoga pilates..?

mm..

me well im not the best at tackling it...

i guess i think of a happy place lol jokes... um

i think big breathes calm down and take things one step at a time :D

PEOPLE well thats another subject altogether...

medicastion and learning relaxation help

dark glasses and a hat can give protection

Having dealt with anxiety along with my AS, I agree it can be a very painfull experience. My advice would be to "be selfish". Put most of your efforts into addressing the symptoms of your anxiety and AS as you can, and not worry too much about other people.

As you make progress, you may find that your dealings with other people may change as well. Nevertheless, some people will always remain a "pain in the butt"!

People are strange and you don't know what to do with them? My husband says that almost daily. My husband, daughters, and I all make sure that we have a place that is "ours" that we can go to to get away from everyone. You live on campus, right? That is really hard to get away from folks there. My daughter hides under the furniture at school and screams "go away" to people. You probably wouldn't want to do that, but if you could figure out an adult version of that then you might want to give it a try. PS: My daughter says that corners work well for that too.

I do have a place to myself, almost, because my room mate is never here. It used to be that I relied on knowing someone would be in the room every evening and it was very hard to live alone after that, but now I like having a place to myself and am disrupted if she (diff room mate) does visit. I guess it really is about routine and reliability, not necessarily the people.

Maybe developing comfort zones might help such as wearing an article of clothing that makes you feel protected or having an activity that you can retreat to - to get away mentally. The retreat doesn't resolve the anxiety of the situation but you get a nice break from the complexities of the social world.

Yes, maybe it is about the routine and not the people. I hate when my routine is changed. It really screws me up for the rest of the day. Like for example, I was in a meeting and I always sit in a certain spot in that room and everybody really knows that, but yesterday one of my co-workers was messing with me and sat in my chair and smiled at me and said "Oh, this isn't bothering you, is it?" I said "no" but the whole meeting I was thinking that it was my chair. Stupid little things like that get to me and they probably shouldn't.