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mentally exhausted interacting with other people

☕Tassimo ☕

Hey, Auti-nauts. I've not posted for a while. I can't remember if I've ever started a thread on here. Please be gentle! I wanted to ask you all a serious question. Does anyone else gets mentally exhausted interacting with other people? 

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  • I get both worn out and worked up. Anyone ever feel that? Like your keyed up and can't relax after just having socialised for an hour or so. It's like it sets off some reaction in me, gets my adrenaline going or something... once my minds been set off whirring in a different direction I can't stop it. 

    I definitely get the tiredness too though, I think it's because it takes so much mental energy to know how to respond all the time. If I don't put energy into my thought process I'm prone to talking ***. 

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  • I get both worn out and worked up. Anyone ever feel that? Like your keyed up and can't relax after just having socialised for an hour or so. It's like it sets off some reaction in me, gets my adrenaline going or something... once my minds been set off whirring in a different direction I can't stop it. 

    I definitely get the tiredness too though, I think it's because it takes so much mental energy to know how to respond all the time. If I don't put energy into my thought process I'm prone to talking ***. 

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  • in reply to Roguelife

    Yes I have this but you have drawn attention to it for me; thank you. 

    I have tried for decades  to find  other reasons than the ASD explanation for my social issues.  I think it’s because I’m 56 and I only got diagnosed in 2018.  I’m conditioned over fifty five years to struggle on in searching for what I now am beginning to recognise is unattainable ie a change in neurology.  My thinking and striving is not meant to nor can it change my body chemistry. 

  • in reply to Roguelife
    Roguelife said:
    I get both worn out and worked up. Anyone ever feel that? Like your keyed up and can't relax after just having socialised for an hour or so.

    Yes, that's adrenaline. Prevents you from relaxing and makes you feel "wired" but paradoxically you can feel tired at the same time.

    This often happens to me when I have stayed awake for too long. The body gives you adrenaline for a "second wind", so you have this frustrating state of being both tired and unable to sleep.

    I often get like that after too much social interaction, because I'm on edge from socialising but also drained. So afterwards I don't have the energy to do much but also can't relax.