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Is extreme tiredness normal?

misskittykat

I took my 13 yr old daughter out yesterday to meet friends that we haven't seen in ages.  It was a long day for her (train journey there and back) but we spent 5 hours with our friends, several having lunch, another 45 minutes stop for tea/cake as we were all aware that she couldn't cope with walking about for hours on end.

She really struggled to get through the last 2 hours.  I've never been one for staying in all the time so she is used to doing this sort of thing but she used to have so much more energy and get up and go.  It made me think over the last year and I can see that the extreme tiredness has been creaping up on us. 

It could be normal teenage hormones or her medication (she's been on Sertraline for 2 months) or is it because her sensory processing disoder is more extreme now?  Just wondered if others suffer or their children suffer and was there a time when things were better and if they are likely to get better?  I'm worried that she will become a recluse and lost contact with the outside world completely.  I'm still pretty new to this (diagnosis in Feb) and although I've been aware of her differences for a long time, am only just begining to 'get it'.

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  • Just trying to cope/ compensate in social situations can be tiring - you have to work a great deal harder at many things that come naturally to NTs.

    I tire in social situations, often fairly quickly - start yawning even, and find it harder to look attentive. I find it hard to keep my eyes open, and harder to follow the conversation. It obviously shows, as people complain.

    It is hard to explain to people that it is something that normally happens and can they bear with it, particularly as I avoid disclosing I have aspergers.

    Ironically, because I have to try so hard to pay attention and follow dialogue, people seem to think I'm a good listener....that is until it becomes more apparent I'm losing connectivity and even nodding off.

    I think it is experienced by others on the spectrum, both from reading about it and talking to others. However it is hard to say, as this is one of the many areas of day to day life that isn't covered by the simplistic triad of impairments.

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  • Just trying to cope/ compensate in social situations can be tiring - you have to work a great deal harder at many things that come naturally to NTs.

    I tire in social situations, often fairly quickly - start yawning even, and find it harder to look attentive. I find it hard to keep my eyes open, and harder to follow the conversation. It obviously shows, as people complain.

    It is hard to explain to people that it is something that normally happens and can they bear with it, particularly as I avoid disclosing I have aspergers.

    Ironically, because I have to try so hard to pay attention and follow dialogue, people seem to think I'm a good listener....that is until it becomes more apparent I'm losing connectivity and even nodding off.

    I think it is experienced by others on the spectrum, both from reading about it and talking to others. However it is hard to say, as this is one of the many areas of day to day life that isn't covered by the simplistic triad of impairments.

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