You know I read somewhere that given the choice of being given an electric shock or sitting in boring silence alone and unstimulated for a period of time many people prefer the shock. This was a psychology experiment that was run some time ago. Have you ever experienced intense prolonged deep boredom. Boredom so deep it could almost be described as pain? I have to say I think I can. As a home schooled child before the internet quite a lot of my life felt like that. It must be rare these days now kids have iphones etc and can 'do an internet' whenever they want.
Here's the tragic dichotomy. I would consider my self an extrovert. I enjoy being around people. But most people are so incredibly boring. I mean so so boring. Life is quite boring. I remember working for the civil service dealing with forms and reports that said nothing. Or worse that said what could have been summarised in 3 graphs and 2 paragraphs in several pages. I grew to hate the term 'high level.' It's civil service code for 'ignore all the important details and make unwarranted assumptions.' All I was doing we regurgitating old work applied to new problems that in most cases they weren't best fit to answer. The boredom was agonising.
Am I alone? Am I the only one who finds most every day conversations and jobs so mind agonisingly boring? I thought this was how most autistic people feel?
