Yet another question about processing.

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I am still figuring out, what is what, and I am beginning to see, that slow processing is a reality for me as well.
How about during stress?

I am very easily stressed, and very often I feel "dazed" during stress. I often can´t handle things, when stressed, and after such a dazed moment, I feel quite confused.
It is like having been through a movie with very few pictures per sec. I only partly remember my actions.
Last time, under extreme inner stress, I was in the kitchen trying to eat an open sandwich in a rush. My hands were trembling, I couldn´t handle my food and it ended in an absurd fight with a sandwich, that seemed to have its own life. Well, at last I got it! At the same time, I unconciously rocked from one foot to the other.
I definitely didn´t feel normal, when this behavior became clear to me.

Question:I wonder if that kind of confused moments with "too few pictures per sec" is due to partial processing during stress? A series of short moments of processing. Since I remember later, I must have registered everything or most.

I was fired after a moment like that; no stimming, only confusion. My coordination and sense of continuity simply went and I made a mess of everything. Boss very unhappy.

Does it ring a bell, anyone? Do NT´s experience the same?

Almost all animals behave the same during extreme stress.
Just like those of us with ASD.
We just hit the stress threshold "sooner" than NTs think we "should."
Probably because we don't filter out every d*mn thing we see & experience, instead we try to cope & sometimes fail.

Meltdowns will happen pretty much the same way for any creature over stressed, as they do for us.
"Low processing" is most likely just another part of the reactions.

Would you say, that the state, I described is a sort of meltdown?

The same sort of happens to me a lot too. I really don't know what to call it because it's not exactly a meltdown in the usual sense, but I don't think it's really a shutdown either.

I think this is common for all people when they in moments of stress, doesn't even have to be intense stress, but regular stress, when their brains can't seem to function to do the simplest thing, and their actions become a sequence of mental and physical errors, and meanwhile, the emotions of stress and frustration caused by error after error after error probably add to the problems and affect the subjective eggsperience to seem like too few pictures or things happening too fast, but ackshuly the same things are being processed as normal, but the stress causes different eggsperience than normal.

I have trouble processing at times whether I'm stressed or not. It's hard for me to process something I have no interest in. I was lucky to have finally graduated high school without getting so frustrated due to my difficult processing. I can process things a lot better by listening or touching things, but I lack the ability to see what is going on because I can't catch on the same way if I'm listening or observing something through touch.

If that makes sense... I get stressed very often, but that's only because I'm an anxiety mess. D:

Yah - it's kinda like having a Russian sports car. The first time you drop gear and pound the accelerator, the wheels fall off.