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Micro-meltdowns

Martin

I have read online that autistic meltdowns last 'from minutes to over an hour'. Mine certainly don't, they last from seconds up to a minute or so. They tend to be somewhat violent - always self-directed - and the trigger is often something apparently very minor. They only happen, or I allow them to happen, if I am alone. If I am with others, I tend to shut down instead, also of short duration. I wondered if anyone else had these sort of short-duration episodes, and if they, like me, do not have anything that lasts longer than a minute or so?

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  • depends what they class as a meltdown these days.

    i guess for the claim that it lasts hours to days, they are perhaps adding the negative feelings and pissyness as part of the meltdown too which i wouldnt class as the meltdown. the meltdown is class as the peak, push over the edge that first makes you paralysed with so many thoughts and options and responses in your head and leads you to possibly even snap uncontrolably in such a way you destroy something or punch someone in the face mostly against your will as if your body did it by response itself. then ofcourse youd be thinking and dwelling on it for days or weeks after, which i guess theyd class that part as meltdown too but id rather not. therefore id say meltdown is the peak and only lasts as you say a minute or a few seconds, as it is the peak blow off point, and peak blow offs dont last for a long time, otherwise they wouldnt be a peak blow off/meltdown. and how it gets to that peak blow off is probably due to holding so many things in rather than being open and letting it out gradually. therefore being long term pissy and negative and bad would be preventing a meltdown/blow off because that is letting it our gradually rather than exploding it all at once.

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  • depends what they class as a meltdown these days.

    i guess for the claim that it lasts hours to days, they are perhaps adding the negative feelings and pissyness as part of the meltdown too which i wouldnt class as the meltdown. the meltdown is class as the peak, push over the edge that first makes you paralysed with so many thoughts and options and responses in your head and leads you to possibly even snap uncontrolably in such a way you destroy something or punch someone in the face mostly against your will as if your body did it by response itself. then ofcourse youd be thinking and dwelling on it for days or weeks after, which i guess theyd class that part as meltdown too but id rather not. therefore id say meltdown is the peak and only lasts as you say a minute or a few seconds, as it is the peak blow off point, and peak blow offs dont last for a long time, otherwise they wouldnt be a peak blow off/meltdown. and how it gets to that peak blow off is probably due to holding so many things in rather than being open and letting it out gradually. therefore being long term pissy and negative and bad would be preventing a meltdown/blow off because that is letting it our gradually rather than exploding it all at once.

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