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DrChronDon
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04 Sep 2011, 11:02 am

I feel like I need to keep doing whatever it was I was doing. Like it would be impossible to start something new, if the current conversation or activity is unfinished. To me it used to feel, illogical. I also knew that I wouldn't be able to think clearly on another subject, because Im already too drawn into the current subject. Its like, I have to read a book a certain way, which focuses on the details, so it becomes difficult to read another, without finishing the one current one, for Im already reading it a certain way that seems relevant to that book at that time. So I had a lot of trouble in school, transitioning from one activity to another. Im getting better though.



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04 Sep 2011, 11:11 am

OddFiction wrote:
its like someone throwing bowling balls at the front door when you've just managed to get to sleep after 3 days of insomnia....

At first there's confusion - trying to locate or identify what disturbed you
Then there's an agony of decision - do I answer the interruption or try and pretend its not there and hope it'll go awaya dn why won't you go away and let me get back to my happy place...
A moment trying to recover the peace and happiness you got startled from...
More agony of decision... can I get back to my happy spot at all anymore - is it gone, and how long is it gone for and...
Then the understanding the interruption won't go away and realizing happy IS gone and...
Facing the interruption full on, knowing that you are being forced to abandon the happy thing and deal with someone else's problem and...

...and you answer the door to find out they're selling duct cleaning services in an apartment complex fitted with electric baseboard heaters.

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It feels like an elephant fell out of a clear blue sunday sky and landed on your favourite glass xmas tree ornament, and there's no logical explination for how the elephant got up there!
It still to this day feels like whenever I do something I have to focus on, I zone out, and when the teacher lets me know that its time for us to present or talk about our books, Its like a warm blanket or the extreme relaxation is just instantly gone, like you were asleep or dreaming, yet you were working and thinking the entire time and you were completely conscious and aware of what was going on around you.



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04 Sep 2011, 2:59 pm

draelynn wrote:
The feeling is like trying to drag myself out of a trance. I often drift back to what I was doing as people are trying to talk to me because my attention was not fully disengaged. If I can manage to disengage myself and pay attention, I get very agitated, flustered, impatient and, depending on how important the task I was interrupted from was, I can actually go into meltdown because I am painfully aware of how long it will take me to get back into it,if I can at all. If I am interrupted from a task I had to force myself to do - I usually cannot find the focus to return to it, sometimes for weeks.

My feelings are all internal and emotionally reactionary in these situations. I get no physical sensations when trying to disengage my focus.


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