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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

    It too feel this form of distress  

    I personally think there may be some work-arounds however the NT world makes it especially important to use them and often hard to employ them.

    It is especially frustrating that we feel in a struggle to survive when remarkably we have access to so much wealth of knowledge and material (albeit restricted by aspects of the NT world).

    Self-realisation is often described as being a key to self-actualisation and happiness (not just struggling to survive).  Maybe this is the answer and I think what you are doing here and now is just that.  Perhaps the issue is how much one is able to do so?

    On the other hand it is also said that "ignorance is bliss".  I think that both you and I, and perhaps it is in the nature of a lot of autistic people, struggle to ignore things.  Anyway I certainly don't want to encourage myself or others to behave ignorantly!

    Hang in there and maybe get used to flying?

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  • in reply to Mr T

    It too feel this form of distress  

    I personally think there may be some work-arounds however the NT world makes it especially important to use them and often hard to employ them.

    It is especially frustrating that we feel in a struggle to survive when remarkably we have access to so much wealth of knowledge and material (albeit restricted by aspects of the NT world).

    Self-realisation is often described as being a key to self-actualisation and happiness (not just struggling to survive).  Maybe this is the answer and I think what you are doing here and now is just that.  Perhaps the issue is how much one is able to do so?

    On the other hand it is also said that "ignorance is bliss".  I think that both you and I, and perhaps it is in the nature of a lot of autistic people, struggle to ignore things.  Anyway I certainly don't want to encourage myself or others to behave ignorantly!

    Hang in there and maybe get used to flying?

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