Dealing with Meltdowns

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I don't get full-on crazy meltdowns, but sometimes I feel my symptoms get worse and worse, to the point where it's difficult to speak sometimes... like a heavy feeling in my head that's weighing me down. It usually happens after I embarrass myself: bad memories come back, I feel plagued by having AS, etc...

This happened yesterday, and I had to deal with it during my English class - I couldn't participate AT ALL and just sat there. I didn't cry, but at one point I was close... eating helped, but that painful feeling was still there.

It was only when I got back from class and decided to take a nap was I fine. I was amazed! Usually it takes an hour or two of panicking coupled with a 3-hour nap to calm me down, but after an hour-long nap I hung out with my roommates and was more social than usual - It was weird!

I guess if my meltdown doesn't get too bad, and if I do something about it quickly, then I'm fine. Has anyone else experienced this weird phenomenon? Furthermore, what works for you for getting rid of your meltdown?

Two things, either I need total isolation and as little stimulation as possible, or I need to be distracted (by tv or something mindless). Usually I need to remove myself from the situation and focus on something else.

My meltdowns don't happen as often as they used to, and I find that I just need to reorient myself and get centred. My partner rubbing my back helps alot as I focus on that, and nothing else. And yes, sometimes I nap.

For me it depends on what kind of meltdown.

There's the meltdown caused by someone pushing too many buttons too fast. Hopefully I can get out of the situation for a bit, calm down, and then deal with the issue. If not...well...let's just say I've gotten better at impulse control.

And then there's the meltdown caused by being in a toxic environment for too long. For that type I'm liable to make drastic and possibly ill advised changes just to get out. Then I have to recover for a while, possibly a long while.

sometimes i snap when people push me to far, if made a post about it http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt77637.html
i feel invinicble when im hurting the person, then i relise what im doing, and my world collapses