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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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  • Jon said:
    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.

    There are two types of motivation:

    Reward (positive) motivation - "do this and you will get X".

    Punishment (negative) motivation - "do this or you won't get X".

    Much of the information I've read, seen, and heard, on Autism talks about people on the spectrum being, in general, strongly reward motivated.

    And, through observation, it would appear, to me, that neurotypicals, in general, are strongly punishment motivated.

    People who are reward motivated derive pleasure, and avoid displeasure, out of acheiving things.

    People who are punishment motivated derive pleasure, and avoid displeasure, out of avoiding things.

    It is the gaining of pleasure, and the avoidance of displeasure, that are the universal driving forces, not reward, nor punishment.

    At least that's my understanding of it.

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  • Jon said:
    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.

    There are two types of motivation:

    Reward (positive) motivation - "do this and you will get X".

    Punishment (negative) motivation - "do this or you won't get X".

    Much of the information I've read, seen, and heard, on Autism talks about people on the spectrum being, in general, strongly reward motivated.

    And, through observation, it would appear, to me, that neurotypicals, in general, are strongly punishment motivated.

    People who are reward motivated derive pleasure, and avoid displeasure, out of acheiving things.

    People who are punishment motivated derive pleasure, and avoid displeasure, out of avoiding things.

    It is the gaining of pleasure, and the avoidance of displeasure, that are the universal driving forces, not reward, nor punishment.

    At least that's my understanding of it.

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