Things that just short circuit your brain?

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When people talk down to me like I’m nothing makes me flip, it always has and always will.

Unfortunately this behaviour from other people tends to make me violent, I’ve never lost a fight in my life.

It's a mad niche that has carried me through life.

Trying to be social and wind up listening to extremely banal chit chat.


Slightly worse is whenever I hear really bad Non Sequitur arguments. The exception to this is when Comedians like Mitch Hedburg use them in jokes. Unless perhaps that kind of humor making me laugh is actually a Good kind of brain short circuit.

general rudeness, interrupting someone when they are speaking, someone crying. The first to send me into immediate fight but I am desperately trying to learn to flight in those scenarios. In the third case...its a trap. I must flee but its considered rude. However, its also considered rude to not properly console a crying person. And since I hate general rudeness, I end up in an inner battle.

Ugh...and I'm adding slamming doors to that list.

What short- circuits my brain?
One thing that definitely hurts me is a simple lack of sleep! I feel like my brain is about to go flying away on it's own, and leave the rest of my body behind!
Too much constant commotion around me also causes a short- circuit. If I have to be around a lot of people for any length of time, I "phase out". I just get a deep sense of unreality around crowds....

A thousand questions when I’m engrossed in a task puts me in “the danger zone.” That’s another thing my new supervisor does. He acts as if I’m an idiot because I cannot respond in the manner he demands. I have been at the place six years, have more education than he does (30 credits short of a doctorate), and I know more about the place than anyone does in our department. The only reason he got the job is because he has an aggressive demeanor and a deep voice; steroid abuse will do that to a person.

Personnel questions by someone I'm not very close to.

Any display of sex in a movie or TV show, in fact anything including cartoons, implying they are having sex on TV.

Up close and personel showing of love scenes, loss scenes, death scenes on TV. I get very emotional and lose myslef.

Frustration when I'm trying to do something I know is simple, but it just isn't working. Eventualy I will have a melt down.

Noisy or busy streets, rooms, restaurants, hall ways, public open spaces, shops, beaches.

Too many people in one place. noise or not, it's just overwhelming. (I can go to a concert, but its like I have to hold my breath (mind) for the whole time. Only when i get back into my car again can I relax).

A picture of someone in grief.

A brand new product that doesn't opperate as you expect, but still works. The shops don't take them back because its not broken, but it also doesn't do what you expected it to do.

High pitched buzzing sounds. Including the sound of 4x4 knobby tires on the bitumen.

Conflict, insults, non-constructive criticism, being yelled at, etc.

This. Pick a time and show up. And if you're more than three or four minutes late, expect me to be a nervous wreck.

Also, unexpected loud noises. About a week ago the fire alarm kept going off in my building and my roommates came home after the fourth time and just found a royally agitated NuttyEngineer sitting in their living room.

Filling out forms also gets to me. Despite the fact that they usually ask very simple questions, I often find I am unable to put down a simple answer and get confused as to what to actually put down.

Finally, anything that requires the use of coordination or lots of fine motor skills (except for my special interests... then I can somehow do it). For instance, I had an internship a couple of summers ago and I had the opportunity to learn how to operate some heavy machinery.... well, my boss learned very quickly that that wasn't a good idea because I got very confused between trying to use the gas, brake, shifting, and then operating the actual controls for the machine and I would just melt down. I am definitely meant to be in the office...

Needing to contact a call centre.
Typical scenario from a few days ago:

1) spend 10mins trying to find a number because my query does not fit with the on line services.
2) ring number, none of the options fit with my query
3) press random number and get through to automated service with no option to speak to person.
4) ring again and press random number and get through to human person.
5) not human person's department so they will put me through assuring me that they will put note on system.
6) after long wait another possibly human comes on line and tells me there are no notes from other person but will try to find out and after even longer wait I realise I have been cut off.
7) ring again. This time I get person in call centre in possibly India and remember to write name down.
8) this person is very nice and helpful and arranges to reduce extortionate direct debit and pass on complaint.
9) do not trust a word very nice person said.
10) I am late for an appointment. I am in such a state that I consider not going out and submit to major meltdown, which I would have if I did not have to get out.
11) consider doing without telephone/broadband, car, dog, living by candlelight but get back to reality as could not cope without heating.

The most serious is unidentified noise at night, especially running water and 'things that go bump in the night'. If I did not have a husband I could not live as I do. I am terrified on my own at night.

Things that nearly short-circuit my brain:

• Shapely women who wear tight and skimpy clothing, and then complain that men are staring at them.
  
• Trolls who post anything they can think of to provoke hostility in others, and then complain when their posts are deleted and their treads are locked.
  
• People who will believe anything as long as: (1) it isn't true, and (2) they can link to a YouTube video that agrees with their beliefs.
  
• People who have never had sex (or that haven't even been in a relationship) giving advice to others on how to become pick-up artists.
  
• Men who treat women like prizes to be won, toys to be played with, or property to be owned, and who then complain that women treat them badly or refuse to go out with them.

People demanding answers to a question now while brain is still processing the question and trying to visualize what happened and the answer. I usually say anything to make them go away, then I look up the information I documented, then give them the answer. When they ask why, I just say I needed time to get the correct information and screaming at me will not get you what you were looking for.

The sounds of hammering and sawing

Any loud or unidentified noise at night

People asking me questions then not believing the answers I give

Too many things craving my attention at the same time. Too much noise and tumult.

1) Conflict/confrontation
2) Two people talking to me at the same time or needing me for different things at the same time
3) Work piling up
4) Getting interrupted with more work while concentrating on work
5) Being lied to
6) Dog barking incessantly or loud construction work near my home
7) Visual chaos in my living space (things OR people)
People visiting without a specific end date/time and people "stopping by" unexpectedly
9) People who deliberately (or not) continue doing things I ask them not to do sends me into a real tizzy