Is bordem more common in those with Aspergers/ASD than NTs?

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I've struggled with boredom and now rarely experience it. I don't think it has anything to do with AS or intelligence. I think it has to do with the skill of keeping your own mind occupied. If you have interesting things to think about and ways to entertain yourself you can avoid it pretty well. Different people think and learn differently so different kinds of things are going to work for different people. I usually have some kind of mental puzzle I'm working on, some mystery I'm trying to figure out. I also try to keep a book around, usually a novel in the fantasy genre.

Sometimes there are situations where you're stuck and not free to entertain yourself. If I'm listening to a lecture I'll usually try to find something interesting about it, or about the person who's giving it. If it's totally boring I might start to analyze the person's speaking style or something, or completely ignore them and think my own thoughts.

For my entire life I've experienced boredom when I'm forced to do something that's not in my area of interest or not very stimulating or intriguing to me. I don't think experiencing boredom makes one lazy or shallow. On the contrary, people who are comfortable laying around doing nothing after work or are easily entertained by sitting in front of the television watching sh*tty reality television shows all evening seem shallow to me. In the past when I wasn't depressed boredom motivated me to find more exciting things to do. I'm a thrill seeker at heart. I'm also intelligent and curious and that causes a torturous sense of dissatisfaction when I'm forced into performing mundane tasks all day.