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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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  • Scorpion0x17 said:

    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".

    I like that explanation scorpion. It could be expanded maybe to 'do this/don't

     do this and you will feel good/bad'?

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

    but the reward is the ultimately feeling pleasure? and the punishment is feeling displeasure?

    I reward myself with tea and nice food after going out and socialising ( a challenge for me). I sit alone and try and relax.

    I wonder Hope, do you feel any sense of reward or pleasure from going out and socialising or is the reward solely the nice food and tea?

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  • Scorpion0x17 said:

    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".

    I like that explanation scorpion. It could be expanded maybe to 'do this/don't

     do this and you will feel good/bad'?

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

    but the reward is the ultimately feeling pleasure? and the punishment is feeling displeasure?

    I reward myself with tea and nice food after going out and socialising ( a challenge for me). I sit alone and try and relax.

    I wonder Hope, do you feel any sense of reward or pleasure from going out and socialising or is the reward solely the nice food and tea?

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