Aspies - Are you also constantly "in your head" ?

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I'm just wondering if my fellow aspies also have there energy often or always in there head (in the sense that you're not grounded/thinking way too much/floating/dreaming). Also if you would point where your soul is would it be in your heart or in your head? I have this almost all my life and it sucks, i just want to be able to feel my body a bit..

My body feels a tad goofy at times. My mind knows that I would like to move in a particular fashion. My body shakes, indecisive of the particular route of movement.

I am able break my nose and not feel a thing but a pinprick sets me off into fit.

Is your brain supposed to be going one million miles an hour with Asperger's?

Much less than I used to be. Sometimes I wouldn't respond when someone said hello because I had said hello back in my mind and didn't know the difference.

I can relate to this. I seem to not be able to stop analyzing things, no matter how hard I try. I've done the thing where I haven't said hello back, also.

yes. I'm not going to try to change it at this point, in the past people have told me I 'live in my head'. They can take a flying leap, I yam what I yam.

Not as much as I used to be, which is why I get so bored easily. But before I was on anti-depressants I would always be in my head.

Oh, absolutely. The challenge is tuning in to what's happening in the here and now, and I'm not always successful in that. I can sometimes miss quite a bit in my surroundings. I also tend to lack awareness of my body's position in space, and often bump into/ trip over things and people, and I often don't even notice. Sometimes my shirt will be inside-out, my jeans will be riding down my hips (even with a belt, I just don't like clothes that squeeze too tightly) or my shirt will be riding up my back, and I'll be inadvertantly showing a little more skin than ideal, and I won't notice until someone points it out to me.
Recently, there was a CPR training at my job, and during the practical portion the guy doing the training came by three times to correct my positioning. After the third time, I forced myself to pay attention to my body. It was really difficult. I got 100% on the written exam, though, while most of my co-workers got a couple of questions wrong.
Still, I can come across as pretty awkward and oblivious at times. My co-workers probably think there isn't much going on in my head. Of course, the real problem is that the exact opposite is going on.

Last edited by OuterBoroughGirl on 31 Jan 2010, 9:50 pm, edited 2 times in total.

All.....the......time

Mics

you should see my middle school pictures.
Then there was that time where I tried to put on a shirt as a pair of pants. I almost went to school like that.

-_-;

Yes.

I don't ever recall not being in a hazy, dream-like state.

Of course. Without thought, we are mere beasts.

Yep I'm always analyzing aswell. Oh I just got an idea I should make a book 1,000,000 ways to apologize to your Psychology teacher you upset (and hypothesis on how to fix your behavior since no one wants to help you or GIVES A DAMN!) I could sell millions! LOL!

I tend to be in my head, a lot. I always find that I'm daydreaming or always thinking up scenarios in my head. It's very strange, but wonderful.

it won't let me escape!

Yes I'm mostly inside my own head. I probably ought to just speak my thoughts more in real life, but it's hard to work out which thoughts to speak and which not to. As for listening, I can only do that for a short time unless I happen to be fascinated by the subject matter (though it helps if the speaker slows down to my rate of intake). Of course there's not a lot for me to think about that isn't to do with what's out there, so in that sense I'm very outgoing. I don't daydream.

My "soul" isn't particularly anywhere - I don't see it as existing except in an allegorical way, so it doesn't have a physical location. If you mean the seat of consciousness, I'm not sure that exists either, but if it did then it would be in my brain. My heart is just a pump, though allegorically speaking I'm not uncomfortable with the idea that my heart and my head both have a lot to do with motivating me. I think you need a mixture of both, and in my case I probably use my head too much, but being aware of that, I often feel it to be very refreshing when I happen to choose to let my heart decide a thing. It feels a lot more natural, something inside that was always denied finally getting at last to speak. But my heart alone can get me into deep trouble, so my head doesn't particularly trust it.

I do live in my head most of the time. It drives me crazy. I find it really difficult to put my thoughts into words. Thoughts are so easy. I know what I'm thinking, but when it comes to putting that accross to others, if find it so hard. My colleagues got into a little debate last week and I had thoughts on the subject, but one of them was loud and opinionated and I didn't think she would have the patience to allow me time to put my thoughts accross, so I kept quiet. I do keep quiet alot. I've been enjoying bouncing my ideas off people here. I do have problems getting what I mean into words, and sometimes I am misunderstood, but I found people to be very understanding. So thanks people.

About where the soul resides. I don't believe I have a soul, but I went to see a therapist who told me that I was letting my head over-rule my emotions and I wasn't listening to my heart/body. That made no sense to me what-so-ever, so I started reading alot of books about it. There are theories out there that the heart has a separate intelligence to the body and we need to listen to both and get them in harmony. I don't know whether this is true or not.