Published on 12, July, 2020
I keep seeing posts here about autistic inertia. I have to ask what is that?
From the description it sounds like it may be what I am going through at the moment. Only trouble is I have an awful lot of stuff I actually HAVE to do and I don't know how I'm going to find the "energy" for want of a better word to do it.Any explanations or tips would be very appreciated
I totally understand this feeling. There's also a thing called "pathological avoidance syndrome" which is similar: this means that, if someone tells us to do something, we won't do it.
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I feel like this feeling of inertia/avoidance/procrastination is like sensory overload. We have so much to do that we feel blocked and do nothing.
I feel that the key is to not self-blame or stress. Take each day as it comes and try to be positive. Just doing a bit of something is a step in the right direction.
We have to be in the mood, right frame of mind at the right time. Listen to yourself and what you feel like doing...
Take care
Hello NAS 82466
You are very new to this place - Welcome.
Do you consider yourself a PDAer and are you ASD?
I'm in my 40s and have been just recently diagnosed ASD. I think I do have some PDA tendencies but I would consider this as part of my autism. I seem to have bad days and better ones... How about you?
NAS82466 said:Follow me on this then... Yes, we might "want" to do something, really feel like we "want" to, and we might know we need to but it is because we know we need to/feel expected to by others and also ourselves, that we don't do it. As you say, it's akin to self-harm cos we really do want to do something, but we can't. But is this not similar to us actually just putting pressure on ourselves?
Follow me on this then... Yes, we might "want" to do something, really feel like we "want" to, and we might know we need to but it is because we know we need to/feel expected to by others and also ourselves, that we don't do it. As you say, it's akin to self-harm cos we really do want to do something, but we can't.
But is this not similar to us actually just putting pressure on ourselves?
Yes, I wholly agree with the above and only disagreed with your quote below because it implies that "if we really want to / see the personal benefit" then there is no problem and we can get it done. That's not me.
Number said:but, unless we really want to/see the personal benefit, we find ourselves unable
Your advice is very sound ie take the pressure off and just relax.....unfortunately, the NT world does not help me in this regard - and the longer I delay the task, the greater the pressure. It is an appalling negative feedback loop that drives me insane.