Is extreme endurance an aspie trait?

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Types of endurance, maybe.

I have a very hard time not spending every waking hour in front of my computer.

NTs would have a very hard time doing the same thing.


So, who has more endurance? Those who can do one thing all the time, or those with the endurance to do all kinds of activities?

Since Aspies often have very different tolerances to pain, sensory stimuli, and such, we may appear to be able to endure longer. For me, I can appear to be very durable since I'm very out of touch with my physical and emotional states. So I just keep going, often not realizing how much risk or damage is accreting around me.

So I agree with those above who said, "it depends".

I tend to be so resistant to or am ineffectual at exerting the energy to change my circumstances for the better that quite often I'll keep at a miserable job, living arrangement or whatever far, FAR past the point where the average person would bother to tolerate it anymore.

Yes. endurance and patience has been a way with me. Physical, emotional, mental. I think also the way I learn requires it.

At work, I do alot of walking and moving lots since I work as a courtesy clerk/price checker in a large store.I can walk and work steadily for 7 hours straight without realizing that I should be taking my breaks, which I have to be reminded to do since I get so caught up in doing my work that I forget to do so.I only take breaks when Im tired and since I seem to never get tired, it doesnt click in that I should take a break.

Yes forgot about that. Never took breaks and could work all day without lunch when I was younger. Now I work until mid afternoon and fatigue sets in and reminds me to eat.

I used to think this was a great quality that I possessed, but I've been up for days now without sleep, and still managed to jog and walk for miles, write a great deal of personal work, come to some great and informative deductions within my personal research (I'll read and research a science or general topic until I know nearly everything academically about it on my own time). That's just the past three days, in which little slept was had, if at all. I just tend to run and run and run, with very little drop in efficiency, it seems, with the only problem now being a slight blur in my eyes. I know this is weird, but I've had so much anxiety for so many years, I just said "f**k it," the past year or so, and will literally operate like a machine with a quota until I pass out. I had a check up and nothing seems to be bad about this absurd amount of time devoted to "keep going."

I haven't been relaxed in over a decade, since I have some pretty extreme anxiety and OCD problems as of late, but I do hope that one day I can be more at rest. Until then, I'll keep my mind and body occupied.

I once waited six hours for a person to show up at the mall, I later found out that person ended up in the hospital from falling down the stairs on their way to meet me. I never did suspect they stood me up because I only have four friends for a reason - I made sure in every way possible they wouldn't hurt me by being "shallow".

I think loyalty and endurance are the same thing, and unless I'm in the midst of an earth-shaking meltdown, I have lots of loyalty for my chosen friends. Most of my family doesn't fit in this category at all.