The Age of Tired-ness

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I've been having trouble with fatigue and insomnia recently. Got some vitamin B and C supplements in the shop yesterday to see if they help. Well, vitamin B for energy, vitamin C because it was cheap and it's winter (might avoid a cold lol).

Also curios about Rhodiola Rosea. I've read some scientific studies that suggest it's good for fighting fatigue.

LOL Yeah, I get it!! I didn't know who you were talkin' to, until you said "campin'" (I hate it cuz I can't use an apostrophe in my screen-name.)

Anyway, I think it's just ASD, in general, that wears-me-out. All the anxiety about when / how to do something----in what order, etc. Every month, for instance, I go-through the same hemmin' and hawin' about how should I get all of my errands done. It's such a hassle, for instance, to go get groceries on the bus. My uncle used to take me----and, even though I had to buy everything that would last me, the entire month, at one time, it made life sooooo much more tolerable.

Also, right now I have such financial worries----I was almost evicted on Dec. 4th, and escaped it, just by the skin of my teeth----and, a whole bunch of other issues, that getting a job would "cure", but I haven't found work, yet. So, what I'm trying to say is, if I didn't have all the executive function (?) problems that I have, I could get things done in so much more of a timely manner, and with much less stress and anxiety (which wears-me-out).

Campin_cat, I am tired all the time. I also feel like an old man, have felt that way since I was a teenager. I used to totally shutdown. I did it in high school and the first year I went to college. I seem to be getting better with age. I don't like it. I wish I didn't have AS and have to live an adult life. it is what it is though.

Yep, I know what you mean----we've all just got to keep pluggin'-along, though.

From my experience it's two factors. Though they are related.

1. Inability to communicate and interact with people.
2. Over-thinking every single thing I think about so eventually I don't want to think about much at all.

Having thought about this exact thing for the last two weeks, yes, and I will add, that phone calls are responsible for a large percentage of my tiredness, lately.
Also, when I feel like I am running out of steam it is frightening because I often can't eat or sleep until I figure out that the weird feeling that I'm feeling is simply me being worn out and needing to sleep. (I wish there was a rolls eyes that held still)

I feel like I'm a million years old most days. And not because of my wisdom... :-/

I wish fatigue was better understood, because it seems to be an extremely common affliction. There's a few simple things you can test for - iron/B12 deficiency, underactive thyroid. Chronic inflammatory diseases frequently cause fatigue as well, even when in remission. And, finally, many meds can cause fatigue as a side-effect.

However, fatigue is often idiopathic (no known cause). Children never suffer from fatigue; it seems to be solely an adult affliction. The chronic stress of living in the modern world probably just wears some people out; ASD folks for obvious reasons would be particularly prone to becoming debilitated by too much interaction with the modern world.

Sorry I can't help much, other than to say "I feel your pain"! Zzzzzzzz...

I get much more tired from dealing with people for 1 hour than coding for 12 hours.

Does that happen automatically or is it because of conscious thought processes? As in, why does it make you tired?

Automatically, I think, as even easy interactions with familiar people have effects.
Speaking and listening to other people speak is tiring to me, even in easy familiar interactions.
I try to schedule entire days alone, and put all interactive activities in concentrated form like several hours of eggsperiment or tutoring instead of an hour a day.

Does this happen when you type to people?

Do you know why or can you guess why it happens?

It is still tiring when I type to people, I also try to avoid emailing people if I don't have something important to say, I can't keep up email chains for social reasons.
Posting on wp is less tiring than emailing, or possibly it is because I am spending time alone doing special interest things on my computer while browsing wp that makes wp not tiring.

For why it happens, there is factor of language not being natural for me, so my brain probably does language processing in effortful, less efficient ways.
I am really super bad at listening to people talk, and worse if I don't talk back than if I do.
My brain is worse at listening than speaking, at least when I am speaking, I am not listening.
This is just opposite of childhood, when my brain was better at listening than speaking, but then adults spoke in super simple terms then, so demand on listening was much less.

Also, I am comparing one eggsperience of interaction vs. another of coding, which is something I love to do, so I would proabbly rather interact with people for an hour than spend an hour doing nothing at all if I were forced to do. I would rather get electric shocks, like men preferred to nothing at all for several minutes.

My favorite interactions are rapid back and forth with only a few seconds of speaking and listening by each person. This really cuts down on listening demand.