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Your tolerance to stress

Geeky Gothic Guy

Just curious as to whether other peoples tolerances to stress have improved as they’ve gotten older, or got worse. I feel mines got worse. I’m also a lot less tolerant with things. Simple things seem to stress me out more than when I was younger. What’s everyone’s else’s experience with stress tolerance? 

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  • I have to agree with most of the other posts. I am now in a constant flux of anxiety. This is about 50/50 with my late diagnosis and compounded by my employment situation leading to an employment tribunal.

    It is not the stress itself that damages oneself but the effects it has on the person regardless of the level of stress applied. Some will be more tolerant to stress in the NT world. However, in the autistic world with all our differing complexities ,stress and the stressors being applied tend to be non-conducive to a low stress life.

    What is the answer? Well it may be a unique combination of factors that are specific for each individual. What does not help is the constant struggle to survive in a NT world. 

  • in reply to Mr T

    Given some of the things that people have identified as stressors, and thinking about some of my NT friends and family, I think it's not just ND's that have problems with things like tech, passwords and just how complicated previously simple things have become. All these things that are supposed to make life easier and don't, seem to make everyone go mad and feel like John Cleese in Fawlty Towers beeting his broken car with tree branch out of sheer frustration.

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  • in reply to Mr T

    Given some of the things that people have identified as stressors, and thinking about some of my NT friends and family, I think it's not just ND's that have problems with things like tech, passwords and just how complicated previously simple things have become. All these things that are supposed to make life easier and don't, seem to make everyone go mad and feel like John Cleese in Fawlty Towers beeting his broken car with tree branch out of sheer frustration.

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