*Autistic Shutdowns collection* - Do you experience these ?

1. Don't talk except for simple yes/no answers.  Fixate on a point in space in front of me.  Stim with a clicky thing.  Sometimes if it goes on longer I'll tap my foot/shake knee.  Cold sinking feeling in stomach or raging pulse.

2. The process is usually fixate, stop talking, start stimming.

3. It can take a while for symptoms to leave, depending on what caused it, how long I was under a shutdown, etc.  Usually the symptoms go in reverse, so I may start talking more normally last.

4.  Any kind of uncontrollable stress - for example: if I've messed up something and am being told off, or (when I worked in a design agency) was in a meeting where I had to delay a launch of a site, or I have to express something I'm not comfortable with - like having to talk to my wife about my emotional state, etc.  Sometimes it's internal, for example when I think about how isolated I am - maybe I inadvertently looked at playing a multiplayer game (which I can't deal with), or accidentally watched a Youtube video featuring online gaming as part of the video.  Very occasionally I can't find a trigger and just end up going through the motions of a shutdown.

1. Don't talk except for simple yes/no answers.  Fixate on a point in space in front of me.  Stim with a clicky thing.  Sometimes if it goes on longer I'll tap my foot/shake knee.  Cold sinking feeling in stomach or raging pulse.

2. The process is usually fixate, stop talking, start stimming.

3. It can take a while for symptoms to leave, depending on what caused it, how long I was under a shutdown, etc.  Usually the symptoms go in reverse, so I may start talking more normally last.

4.  Any kind of uncontrollable stress - for example: if I've messed up something and am being told off, or (when I worked in a design agency) was in a meeting where I had to delay a launch of a site, or I have to express something I'm not comfortable with - like having to talk to my wife about my emotional state, etc.  Sometimes it's internal, for example when I think about how isolated I am - maybe I inadvertently looked at playing a multiplayer game (which I can't deal with), or accidentally watched a Youtube video featuring online gaming as part of the video.  Very occasionally I can't find a trigger and just end up going through the motions of a shutdown.

thanks for this contribution to the collection. U are relatively new so welcome ti the forum. You suffer from a classic type of shutdown triggered by stressful events again very classical. I recommend  getting  a diagnosis..