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I hope it's ok for me to start a topic, and I apologise if I've started it in the wrong place or anything. I did have a quick look to check where the most obvious place was to start the topic but it wasn't obvious to me in the end, so I've put it in general. I also checked nobody had started a topic similar, and couldn't see anything, but apologies if anyone has. I just have this thing I wanted to say and get other people’s opinions on. I'm not sure if it's an Aspie thing or just 'Sonia' thing, but when someone is nice to me, or makes me feel like they care about me I have a habit of becoming very attached. I think it might have something to do with dependency. Ever since being a small child I have depended heavily on others to look after me. Okay, so it’s normal for a small child to need to be looked after, but it’s something that I’ve never grown out of despite growing older. For some reason I have an inability to make decisions. For some reason there’s this inbuilt belief in me that I can’t make the right decision. I will always get it wrong and therefore I need someone else’s opinion to reassure me. I need someone else to take control because they’ll be able to make the right decision for me whereas I can’t. When I’m alone I feel helpless and scared. It makes the world seem like a hugely overwhelmingly scary place and I really believe it’s too big for me to cope in and the fears – which are probably highly exaggerated, but to me feel incredibly real – completely take me over and overwhelm me. I can’t get them out of my head. It means I live in a permanently high state of anxiety. All of this means I seek out people to care for me and reassure me. It means that when I find any such people I grasp on to them with both hands because of a desperate feeling of needing them to survive. My dependencies rule my life. They have a huge detrimental effect on it. I live with so much fear and anxiety. My beliefs that I am unable to care for myself are so massive that I fail to function properly in life if I haven’t got anyone to fall back on and deal with the responsibilities for me. Am I alone in this or do other people experience attachment and/or dependency issues?? I'm feeling like a bit of a freakish person right now, because I don't know anyone else who has an issue similar to mine!