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Is using public transportation usually stressful for you?
No. 39%  39%  [ 11 ]
Yes (paying attention to surroundings). 25%  25%  [ 7 ]
Yes for some other reason. 36%  36%  [ 10 ]
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29 Dec 2018, 7:32 am

I have no exact term for the symptom...
If I could guest, it could be hypervigilance and developed agoraphobia for all I know. Few of the many things I don't have to deal with or benefit from.


Travelling and using transports are never stressful to me. Whether I pay serious attention to everything around me or not.
I more likely walk on congested places than use public transport even. Even during my worst years where I've been intolerant towards anything.

Whatever that might be, it's not a part of autism.
More like one of the many consequential draw backs to deal with autism having the low human tolerance/threshold reactions towards it.


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29 Dec 2018, 7:37 am

An appropriate neologism for this phobia might be "peridromophobia".



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29 Dec 2018, 7:47 am

I hate buses because bus drivers never give me what I want even though what I want would get them more money.
Me: 'A single ticket to....'
Driver: 'A child's ticket to... That will be £1'
Me: 'I'm 30, are you blind...'
Driver: 'Don't get an attitude with me'

I just end up walking.



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29 Dec 2018, 1:50 pm

To people mentioning phobias: I never said anything about being afraid of using public transportation. I said it was stressful.



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30 Dec 2018, 9:44 am

This sounds like you have general anxiety. This is not a trait of autism but leaving with autism may lead you there easier.

I think many people on the spectrum are particularly attentive to their surroundings, without any effort and notice details more than average NTs.

I am personally always surprised and sometimes annoyed to see how most of people (supposedly NTs) are walking in crowded places without looking people around them, distracted by this or that, and then bumping in each other



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30 Dec 2018, 1:13 pm

starkid wrote:
To people mentioning phobias: I never said anything about being afraid of using public transportation. I said it was stressful.

Generally I'm not exactly afraid of it either, unless it's a pretty ambitious excursion like a plane trip abroad where I foresee a real risk of getting stranded in the middle of nowhere. Knowing how my autistic impairments can collide with the frequent inadequacies in public transport information and passenger support, there's nothing irrational about getting scared under those circumstances.



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30 Dec 2018, 4:48 pm

LaetiBlabla wrote:
This sounds like you have general anxiety. This is not a trait of autism but leaving with autism may lead you there easier.

Generalized anxiety pertains to excessive worry and unrealistic fears—which doesn't apply to my situation. I know that I have difficulty with public transportation, so my fear of missing a bus, for example, is quite realistic: it's happened before. Fear and worry aren't even the predominant problems; stress and fatigue are the predominant problems.

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I think many people on the spectrum are particularly attentive to their surroundings, without any effort and notice details more than average NTs.

Yes, but stereotypically paying attention to "irrelevant" details, like how many people are wearing red shirts, no? Being aware of one's surroundings in any practical way is certainly not characteristic of autism.



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30 Dec 2018, 5:00 pm

^^^sounds to me like you have read autism stereotypes which are not true.
If you like stereotypes, here are some other stereotypes:
* some people on the spectrum can draw a whole town precisely in detail after having looked at the panorama for 10 minutes.
* some have a map in their head of the places
* some easily memorise in one glance the plates numbers, phone numbers and complex passwords of other people when typed once
* I personally always see when someone drops something in the street or forgets something in a café or restaurant, even far away

all very useful attention to detail



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30 Dec 2018, 6:12 pm

LaetiBlabla wrote:
^^^sounds to me like you have read autism stereotypes which are not true.
If you like stereotypes, here are some other stereotypes:
* some people on the spectrum can draw a whole town precisely in detail after having looked at the panorama for 10 minutes.
* some have a map in their head of the places
* some easily memorise in one glance the plates numbers, phone numbers and complex passwords of other people when typed once
* I personally always see when someone drops something in the street or forgets something in a café or restaurant, even far away

all very useful attention to detail


What some people on the spectrum can do is irrelevant to my point. I was talking about what is characteristic of autism. Something that is characteristic of autism (such as communication deficit) applies to more than some autistic people.



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31 Dec 2018, 12:29 am

"communication deficit" is also a stereotype for autism

people on the spectrum do communicate differently and think differently which makes communication barely impossible sometimes



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31 Dec 2018, 12:15 pm

LaetiBlabla wrote:
"communication deficit" is also a stereotype for autism

people on the spectrum do communicate differently and think differently which makes communication barely impossible sometimes


Quite right. Quite right indeed.



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02 Jan 2019, 5:23 am

starkid wrote:
To people mentioning phobias: I never said anything about being afraid of using public transportation. I said it was stressful.


Then something similar to hypervigilance, minus anxiety and fear or anything psychological likely.

Again, I don't know the exact term except that. Or if it exists.


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