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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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  • May it also be that NTs and aspies have different sources of reward. Although we both need achievements NTs also need social rewards whereas we get more from physical or intellectual activity. I agree that we tend to notice more and examine in greater depth and find that interesting wheras NTs don't, generally, get so much reward from understanding and observing or using. In a way that is an advantage because of Scorpion0x17's point. Due to their greater reliance on the social world they find themselves having to avoid as well as seek.

    I am not saying we don't get lonely and have some social needs, but I think we feel more lonely when in a social environment where we don't fit in than on our own, and prefer solitude to that. Some NTs seem to be almost afraid of being just with themselves.

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  • May it also be that NTs and aspies have different sources of reward. Although we both need achievements NTs also need social rewards whereas we get more from physical or intellectual activity. I agree that we tend to notice more and examine in greater depth and find that interesting wheras NTs don't, generally, get so much reward from understanding and observing or using. In a way that is an advantage because of Scorpion0x17's point. Due to their greater reliance on the social world they find themselves having to avoid as well as seek.

    I am not saying we don't get lonely and have some social needs, but I think we feel more lonely when in a social environment where we don't fit in than on our own, and prefer solitude to that. Some NTs seem to be almost afraid of being just with themselves.

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