Aspies have a harder time recovering from bad experiences?

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It's the April of 2007 and I'm still sporadically crying over the December 2005 demise of the London Routemaster. I might even be crying more this year, than I was last year, because I know that I won't be judged coldley by my own mother, and I'm not getting high on coffee, every three days.

^^^ There are still 4 heritage routes running the routemaster ^^^

I find that I can dwell on something for a long time, and given the trouble I face opening up to people many don't realise. Eventually things may spill out, but thats usually the culmination of many ruminations.

They've added two more? Cool!

I remembered reading about 4 (in the Metro, the london underground free paper), but I can't see it anywhere on the web, so I may not have actually remembered

Indeed. Not really method acting though.

I can't ever get over the things/people that I've lost.

hello fellow travellers,
I really think there is room for a section called ''The ugly side of autism"

Some of the stories documented in these few pages are particularly, um, poignant from another suffers view. Although the actual blow by blow accounts havent actually been described, Its all very real.

The more negative experiences I have, the harder my outer shell becomes and the less I allow them to affect me. I can surely remember things that happened in childhood that still bother me even now. Though I now realise that I can make a conscious decision to at least suppress the negativity and keep it from enslaving me. Before I found out about AS I was very, very hard on myself for even minor things. I do believe though that this contributed in many ways to my life's successes. Finding out about AS has more than anything allowed me to feel at peace with myself and I have already experienced an increase in my quality of life just through this cognitive shift of "knowing". Therefore I think I will only continue to be more efficient along my path to greater success. I definately feel as though I am among the upper high functioners here but who knows.

If you mean events considered 'traumatic' in society, than no, i get over really fast.
But if you mean small events that most of NTs don't even care about, than well... i just DON't get over AT ALL.

Yeah, I'm like that... I remember just a few events from my life, and my whole memory is sh***y. But i experience A LOTS of flashbacks. (that's what i meant by 'not getting over') But afterall i usually don't remember what it was about and it can't trigger thinking over and over about one thing, so I'm usually quite happy execpt time when they get me.
I think most of people remembers me as happy being and they don't even know i have some 'mental problems'.

But i guess i store memories of every event in my life, i just lock them somehow... I know i was like you when i was a child (remembering every thing in my life and analyzing it forever)

I still worry about stupid things as well. Like when I walked into someone in the door at university last September. I know nobody else probably remembers or even cares, but I feel sick thinking about it. That wasn't exactly traumatic though.
I find it difficult to get over traumatic things for other reasons.

I dwell on bad experiences for a long time. And I have also been told that I am unforgiving and I hold grudges for too long.

Yes, I find this to be the case. I've had a few experiences in the past--years and years ago--that I still worry about today. I think more than anything that I have this feeling when I wasn't sure about what another person was thinking--that I might have offended him or her--and was unable to fix the problem because I didn't address it at all at the time. And then it gets too late to do anything about it, and I just feel ugly, still not knowing if I offended another person horribly or not.

Yes, this was a totally incomprehensible post, but this is really my thought process.

I used to be much worse about it. It's not so bad now.

I forgot what I posted... but I remember it taking at least a couple years to get over getting hit by a car back in Freshman year of Highschool. I stil sorta remember the day clearly, but i'm ok now.

Same here, I got that all the time from my dad mostly when I spent years in therapy dealing with the childhood sexual abuse by a babysitter. In addition to my AS, I also have a diagnosis of PTSD from that abuse, but that's gotten better to the point where I don't have as many severe flashbacks. I was also told that the bullying I endured in elementary school was a "part of growing up" and that I should "let it go." When I did what my family expected and didn't mention the sexual abuse, I got into an abusive marriage, which is very common.

Another thing that has caused problems is that especially with my dad's side of the family, it's not considered good to show emotion, even when it's appropriate. Once, when my brother was in a coma after a bad accident, I got nasty looks from my mom and was later accused of "not showing empathy." As a result, I would only cry in front of my boyfriend after my grandpa's funeral as he believes that sometimes it's ok to feel things.

There are relatively "minor" things that I still have a reaction to, including the times when I was working in seasonal retail and customers were nasty. Even though I handled those situations well, those incidents still bug me to this day. I also beat myself up for things I had no control over, as my abusive ex blamed me for everything that went wrong in his life, even stuff I didn't do.

I agree with this fully. I notice that even one bad thing (even just a minor bad thing) can send me into a funk for a week.

I have a habit of moping over bad experiences for what seems like eternity.

In my humble opinion, anybody who thinks that saying ''Get over it'' in a derogatory tone will actually help...well...polite words can't describe them, and seeing as i'm in a fairly chirpy mood this morning, I shan't spoil it by attempting to find the words that do.