Does change to your routine or environment make you sick?

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I just feel bored more than anything else because there usually aren't nearly as many things to keep me entertained like in my old environment, and if I bought stuff from home I find it harder to focus and enjoy them.

Ive learned to accept most changes gracefully but going to an unfamiliar store fore example will give me intestinal issues like needing to go number 2 right now type of issue. This is due to anxiety of not being able to find things that I would be able to find easily in my familiar store. Same thing happens if I have to find somthing at home that was moved by someone other than me or sometimes even if it was me that moved & forgot where I moved it to.

Yes. You pretty much nailed it.

I'd actually like to update the response I made a couple of months ago. It's interesting that this thread should have been brought back up now; I logged on with the intention of making one exactly like it.

I said previously that I don't experience physical illness in response to changes in routine, but tonight I did. My social skills group (the same one I mentioned in my other post) decided to stretch our boundaries by taking us to a nearby coffee shop. They announced it as soon as we arrived, so we had no prior knowledge that it was going to happen. I immediately balked, and the other member (there were only two of us plus the two leaders tonight) wasn't too thrilled with the idea either. Eventually I agreed to it because I've been trying to work on my flexibility of late. As soon as we stepped outside though, I felt like I wanted to throw up. The walk there, which included loud construction zones, a busy highway full of traffic, and one turnabout when we got slightly lost, was enough to shoot my fight or flight response through the roof. By the time we got there and found a table (next to a shrieking toddler) I literally felt like I wanted to crawl under the table and not come out.

I think the sensation that I wanted to puke was derived from a desperate need to shut down and crawl into myself, but being unable to do so because I needed to stay alert, in case any of the overwhelming stimuli around me was actually threatening. I think it was the feeling of just being stretched too thin.

Not for small things in routine as I don't have a strict routine - true that there's sameness though - however I need to know different things/events in advance and schedule them, and at least a week, two is better.

Change of environment can lead to great anxiety, that depends a lot on what place and how much it's different and if for worse (louder, too far, the people, light/colors.in building etc...). My own place...

I don't know if that ^ qualifies for asperger's or bap though.

I felt this way when puberty hit and I would literally get sick from any change in plans or routine. Then I got over it when I reached into adulthood and my hormones settled and my anxiety got better. But before then I did better and could handle it because I didn't get panic attacks and stressed out from it. I do wonder though how do changes in routine feel for autistic children who don't have anxiety. Do they handle it better too and not get so upset even if they dislike it? But when I was little I remember I hated change too but I didn't have meltdowns about it or get sick from them, I would only get uncomfortable but I still handled it fine. The worst thing I would ever do is cry and that got ignored. I am sure that just came off as me having a tantrum or me pouting but I got over it. Then when puberty hit, yes anxiety started and the meltdowns and the panic attacks and the sick feeling in my stomach. One time I got sick on one of our trips because my parents had decided to take another route home and I fell asleep and woke up in a strange place and I ruined the trip because I wouldn't get out of the car to walk in the woods so my dad stayed with me as if he thought I would do something stupid while my brothers and my mother walked. I had anxiety the whole time and nausea and my mom said "Oh we didn't tell you about this because we wanted to surprise you but our bad, it's part of Asperger's and they don't like surprises and you were not expecting it so we should have told you." But I think I would have handled it better if I were younger and I would only be grouchy and my attitude would have been ignored and I would have just rolled with it.

But I notice when I dislike any change it's due to inconvenience and I get irritable from it and anxious or because I fear the unknown and don't know what is going to happen so I get anxious. I also get upset with any change in plans at the last minute and I get very upset and want to be left alone. I wouldn't say I get sick from it. I also have to be in control of my environment so if anything feels out of my control, I get anxious. Money is a big example of it because I get upset when prices go up because it messes with my budget and I get worried about what if this keeps happening and then we can't afford it anymore. I have gone through three different car insurances now because of it. My husband took over the finances because he was tired of being screamed at for spending a dollar and not being able to spend any money on himself than on bills only and for not waiting until he got to a drinking fountain to drink water because he felt he was dying of thirst. I was acting like we were poor because of my money anxiety and I was always fearing the unknown because of surprises and I hate surprises so I was always being prepared for the unknown that involved money so my husband felt he couldn't even live a life so he decided "That's it, I will handle the money from now on and you don't have to worry about this anymore, this is stressing you out and you can't handle it."