Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello everybody
I have autism and I get angry a lot does anyone else experience getting angry a lot for no good reason.
Feed back would be good
Thanks
Hi there,
You say for no good reason... but if you sit down and think about it, it could well be something quite small that's triggering you each time. I get unconscionable degrees of anger through the simplest of things. Often if it's about being clumsy or foolish. It especially happens if I do something that, whilst small, can delay my rhythm in some way. If I'm at the bottom of the stairs hoovering and I pull the cleaner a bit too hard so that the plug comes out at the top of the stairs and I have to go up and plug it in again... that'll get me shouting with rage. Or dropping a buttered knife on the floor. Nothing very much, but is sends my anger right up the scale. Running into a traffic jam that'll delay me even by as little as a couple of minutes - and even though it won't make me late, anyway. Getting lost when driving is the worst. That can really bring out the rage.
They seem like minor inconveniences a lot of the time. But to me, they're a very big deal.
Yes, I'm exactly the same too - it's the interruption to the flow that drives the rage - it feels like the universe will be unbalanced until the previous state is restored. Sometimes I'm also indignant at poor design - tents that don't fit back into their stuff-sack etc.
Could it be to do with flexibilty/rigidity of thought and how your expectations and reality of the event differ?
im exactly the same tom