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Rumination, is it a bad thing?

TheCatWoman

I often get the impression that the sort of thinking ND people do is frowned on by the NT world, they call it ruminating, which it is, but I dont' see it as a bad thing, quite the opposite I think it's a good thing that I enjoy. I enjoy having a good think about things, to be able to explore the different aspects of something, it dosen't have to be all deep and meaningful, but deep and meaningless.

I wonder if rumination isn't somethng we need to reclaim as a positive for ourselves rather than take it on as yet another negative thing we do but "normal people" don't.?

Are NT's afraid of thought, what do they fear will happen?

Are there other words, phrases and things you think should be reclaimed as positives?

Parents

  • I love thing you described,  but sometimes I hate it. If one scenario about me sitting in a car together with my hero David Grusch and discussing UFOs while looking in the sky with full milky way, follows me for half a year, then doesn't matter how wonderful and pleasant is this "movie" playing again and again in my head, I finally get tired of it. I got so sick of it that I finally almost vomited, then it finally git replaced by something else. Now it's back. Scenario with David Grusch and me sitting in a car, there is wild nature around, rocks, mountains,  desert, wonderful view on tge milky way. In so.e versions of my fantasy there is a UFO appearing and talking to us both telepathically. 

    So I love my movies in my head, but sometimes it's too much. Then I ask my brain: hey! Stop it! It's enough. But the brain replies: no, it's not enough! Again hahaha! Or in situations that someone interrupts my "movie" I get a replay of the whole scene and dialogue since the beginning.  It impacts my daily life in situations when someone talking to me, but no reaction from me and only when the person shouts irritated,  then I start realising that someone is talking to me. I also have a scenario of me landing an airplane in emergency.  I used to watch obsessively some videos about landing airplanes and various catastrophic accidents in the sky, there was analysis why it hapened etc. Then my brain created this movie and I play it with one particular track.

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  • I love thing you described,  but sometimes I hate it. If one scenario about me sitting in a car together with my hero David Grusch and discussing UFOs while looking in the sky with full milky way, follows me for half a year, then doesn't matter how wonderful and pleasant is this "movie" playing again and again in my head, I finally get tired of it. I got so sick of it that I finally almost vomited, then it finally git replaced by something else. Now it's back. Scenario with David Grusch and me sitting in a car, there is wild nature around, rocks, mountains,  desert, wonderful view on tge milky way. In so.e versions of my fantasy there is a UFO appearing and talking to us both telepathically. 

    So I love my movies in my head, but sometimes it's too much. Then I ask my brain: hey! Stop it! It's enough. But the brain replies: no, it's not enough! Again hahaha! Or in situations that someone interrupts my "movie" I get a replay of the whole scene and dialogue since the beginning.  It impacts my daily life in situations when someone talking to me, but no reaction from me and only when the person shouts irritated,  then I start realising that someone is talking to me. I also have a scenario of me landing an airplane in emergency.  I used to watch obsessively some videos about landing airplanes and various catastrophic accidents in the sky, there was analysis why it hapened etc. Then my brain created this movie and I play it with one particular track.

Children
  • in reply to Alien0n3arth

    My bad again, I'm sure I've heard NT's talking disparagingly about ND people thinking to much and ruminating. I agree being in a doom loop isn't a good thing, but's it's not something I associate with autism, but with cPTSD.

    I have to tell myself a story every night, it's probably why I have so many weird dreams? 

    I really enjoy my inner life, it's often a safe space, its such a rude awakening when someone speaks to me, likek the woman who insisted I was being rude because I didn't hear her and I was in my own little world! How can it be rude to be in your own little world when you're out walking your dog?

    I often work mysef into a favourite tv program or book, I've done this for as long as I can remember, probably because I'm an only child? Fictional people are so much easier and nicer than real people!