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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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  • It would explain why I’ve had a weekend at a convention and I feel wiped-out, destroyed, demoralised negative, self-piteous, self-destructive  etc.   Strangely enough it seems to be the price for overdoing what I enjoy: I needed and liked meeting people.  I feel like I’m not ‘made for this world’.  But I must be, right?  I’m ‘made in this world’ thus I must also be ‘made for this world’.  I guess I have been sickened by over-socialising and I have the hangover.

    I think this emotional and spiritual terror will pass, as all things do. In the meantime I am frightened by what I feel and have an urge to vanquish or destroy the feelings. 
     I need to learn from this experience.

    This forum is a good University of Autism.

    it has occurred to me - after reading comments - that I might have been ‘masking’ by constantly dominating conversations.  When silent in groups  I felt like I didn’t matter or exist and that I was being judged negatively 

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  • It would explain why I’ve had a weekend at a convention and I feel wiped-out, destroyed, demoralised negative, self-piteous, self-destructive  etc.   Strangely enough it seems to be the price for overdoing what I enjoy: I needed and liked meeting people.  I feel like I’m not ‘made for this world’.  But I must be, right?  I’m ‘made in this world’ thus I must also be ‘made for this world’.  I guess I have been sickened by over-socialising and I have the hangover.

    I think this emotional and spiritual terror will pass, as all things do. In the meantime I am frightened by what I feel and have an urge to vanquish or destroy the feelings. 
     I need to learn from this experience.

    This forum is a good University of Autism.

    it has occurred to me - after reading comments - that I might have been ‘masking’ by constantly dominating conversations.  When silent in groups  I felt like I didn’t matter or exist and that I was being judged negatively 

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