Does being on the spectrum exhaust you?

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I am wondering if others get totally exhausted on a daily basis because of all the work we have to do trying to figure out this world?

I have never felt exhausted from being different. I have only found school exhausting and I thought it was like that for everyone but they handled it better and could get their work done. Then coming home was no help because I had homework that lasted till bed time and I was shocked to hear online how it only takes kids an hour or twenty minutes to do it and school days were always tough for me and the older I got, the more time consuming I got because of me needing help with homework. My mom was nice to let me have breaks. I hear most kids hate homework but if you found school hard and exhausting and then having to come home and have more work to do that lasted you until bed time, you would hate it too and find it stressful. It certainly wasn't like this when I was in special ed full time because the work was easy and I got it all done in school and the teacher never gave us homework, if we didn't finish it, we worked on it the next day in school. It's not like that in mainstream. My 5th grade teacher was kind enough to give me more time to complete my school work so he didn't penalize me for turning it in late. It's not like I was lazy and slacking off and putting it aside. But I never ever fought to do homework and never refused to do it. There would have been a consequence was why.

I do tend to "pass out" around eight P.M. most nights as of late, though I would attribute this more to the effects of being hypersensitive and hyperemotional than trying to figuring the world out.

On a smart-phone, some applications, such as the Picture app, drain the phone battery much more slowly than, say, a Video app. My brain seems to process the world more through video-type apps than picture-type apps, which causes it to deplete more quickly.

It may also be that I am running too many applications at a time; on top of any application (Reading App, Writing App, Test Performance App, Social App, Avoid Having Meltdown App, Hunger App, ect.) that I may be running at any given time, I also run the Imaginary World/Maladaptive Daydreaming App (which is ike a 3-D, high-definition gaming app), which also drains the battery more quickly.

League_Girl, your experience with school sounds absolutely horrendous--no child should have to do schoolwork nearly all of their waking hours! Sadly, the Common Core in the United States is causing more and more of this, from what I have read...

Not really.

Again, this ties in with my "brute-force" theory. I really need to blog it so I can link to it, but in a nutshell, I think it's possible to gather enough intellectual resources and by applying yourself, appear to be NT.

The problem, which I realised recently, is that there's a cognitive cost to this. When that clicked, I realised why I might be exhausted all the time.

It seems that when I'm less "NT" I have more energy, and vice-versa.

Experiencing other people's ignorance exhausts me more than the facts that I'm not like everyone else; I am in high school.

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What about us nocturnes?

Yes, because a lot of things that most take for granted seems a big effort for me.