ScottyN wrote:
Fluke 83: It is very unlikely someone with AS can control a meltdown. I find it almost impossible to stop the nervous system override, although I have gotten very good at getting myself to a private spot when I feel it coming on. When it does occur in public, I am more afraid of the embarrassment than the consequences. It really is amazing how people as rational and intelligent as aspies can't get control over something most people never experience or deal with rather easily.
Maybe I've just been lucky that I have mostly (in my adult life) been in situations where I have been able to remove myself unless home or family has been involved, and I want to stress that the argument I came up with was one I have heard/read several times coming from meltdown skeptics, NOT one I believe in myself. I'm just trying to make sense of it.
I'm still curious though, about the differences between a shutdown and a meltdown, since as for me they serve the same purpose, but in different situations....?
29 Sep 2010, 3:08 pm
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