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Boredom and Asperger's

Jon

Hi I was wondering what thoughts other people with Asperger's have regarding 'boredom'.

I think the function of boredom is to make you do seomthing else. It is also linked with your reward process.

I am not sure that I easily recognise when I am or should be bored. i can find myself doing the same thing again and again or just not able to do anything - sort of in limbo or adrift. I find that routine and planning ahead really helps with focus and enables me to operate better. I don't often feel a sense of achievement or reward and therfore this may result in my not easily defining bored and not bored. I am making this sound more simple than it maybe really is.

Any thoughts?

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  • OK

    people in general may do things for reward. It varies from person to person and there may be differences for NT and AS.

    Reward may include praise, self-satisfaction, fitting in, fullfiling a (biological?) need such as hunger.

    Are any actions not related to reward? Or can the reward circuit be distorted in a way that it is no longer helpful? For example obsessions and adictions that reduce quality of life?

    I think depression must affect the reard circuit too in the way that it is hard to sense reward. At the end of the day is does reward manifest itself in humans 'feeling good' about something?

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  • OK

    people in general may do things for reward. It varies from person to person and there may be differences for NT and AS.

    Reward may include praise, self-satisfaction, fitting in, fullfiling a (biological?) need such as hunger.

    Are any actions not related to reward? Or can the reward circuit be distorted in a way that it is no longer helpful? For example obsessions and adictions that reduce quality of life?

    I think depression must affect the reard circuit too in the way that it is hard to sense reward. At the end of the day is does reward manifest itself in humans 'feeling good' about something?

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