"The hungover"

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How do you guys feel after a very busy day where you had to interact with a lot of people?

After seeing a lot of people and talking to them, when everything is over I feel this sort of what I like to call "social hungover". I feel extremely bad, I try to remember what I said, try to analyze over and over everything I did on that day and I start feeling very bad.

Does this happens to anyone else?

Yeah, all the time. I will lay in bed and replay the stressful situation trying to figure out how I could have made those interactions better. These tend to be very destructive thoughts ultimately. A heavy week can sometimes lead to physical reactions to the emotional stress, such as feeling nauseous and exhausted.

Bison

Definitely. I feel very drained from too much social interaction. And I often say stupid things because I have trouble thinking on the spot, so I go over all that and feel ridiculous and wonder how I have friends. I mean, I feel drained and think over every social interaction, regardless. But when it's particularily busy, it just so much worse.

Yup. Story of my life. I try not to spend too much time analyzing it all anymore. It is what it is.

I think everyone probably has an internal censor, both those who are 'normal' (no such thing as normal anyway! ) and those of us on the spectrum.

I have had some success making a conscious decision to turn down my internal censor so that the default is that it's probably okay to go ahead and say it, unless it really jumps out at me as inappropriate.

This is one of my methods of trying to 'nonperfectionize' my social skills.