Boredom and Asperger's Syndrome

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I always have to bring something along to entertain myself.
I constantly have a book to read at the dinner table.
i bring my ukulele to play in the car.
I go nuts when I don't have something to do.

I think I tend to mistake restlessness or the desire to go outdoors and see some new sights for boredom. I often think I'm "bored" whenever I long for a change of atmosphere and end up pacing the room like a caged animal - but it's not that, really. The apathy that comes with depression isn't boredom either, it's something entirely different as well.

When one comes to think of it, I don't get bored quickly at all. I have plenty of interests (if anything, I'm usually never on time with whatever I plan to paint, write, read, learn, etc., so I have to rush if I want to get it done). When I can't do something I like, - say, when I'm stuck at a lecture or am travelling on the bus, - I usually think about animals or flowers, paintings I could make, or new metaphors and figures of speech to describe my feelings which I could use later on in my writing.

Besides, I like just looking at things; so even doing something very simple, like taking a stroll through the block, usually turns out to be very delightful and eliminates any traces of boredom, even if they were there before.

Oh gosh Alex! You'll let me respond?

I confess to be bored easily, by idiots like NH who pretends to be autistic!

As for home work; who decided I should do home work?

Do have any reading disorder? I've found that I do, as when I ask people how they read they say left-to-right, and have these synapses, and always have a little voice reading it, and understand natively implied details, but I'm very different. I often read top-to-bottom, the whole page at once, just looking at the whole word, rather than the letters to decode it, which makes me unable to read typos if I don't switch my dominant brain side, and don't understand it at the implied level if it's something socioemotional. It deficits me in "reading between the lines" even more than I am deficited in left-brain reading. I have control of myself being left-handed or right-handed, by the way, but can't always write well with my left because of the way I've learned and often see, as well as the way it is oriented.

I am almost always bored. I get bored when there is too much to do-I lose all energy and sit there, not feeling like doing anything at all. It's not the same as just being overwhelmed, or not being interested in doing any of it, or any of that. It's something else, I just don't feel like doing anything.

There are times I have a lot to do, and I will be gung ho just to get it all done quickly. There are times I can be moving from the time I get up til the time I go to bed, and actually be interested in nearly every single thing I did that day.

Then there are days when there is a lot to do, but it feels like none of it really HAS to be done... and there are things that I would like to do, but they don't really matter either as I have a lot of time to do them. So I just sit there... and do nothing, lol. Post on a few forums, get bored with that, try playing a game, lose attention half an hour in... can't sit to watch a whole movie the majority of the time unless I've been prepped for a week that I am going to watch a particular movie that night, and even after knowing, I'll still fall asleep through it, or will just have no interest.

It's like my mind is going in slow motion or something... feels like I have all the time in the world to do whatever I want, when I want, and then I get bored thinking about it because nothing has to be done at that moment, and nothing is new anymore. I'm so set in my own routine of doing the same things every single day, at the same times, over and over, that I just lose interest after a bit until something new comes along, or I am handed a reason to be excited about it.

I lie around in my bedroom all friggin day, and yet I don't get bored. I just am constantly thinking about things.

I'm extraordinarily bored and lethargic today, gmmm.

I never get bored. I often lose interest in the task at hand, or the conversation, or my surroundings, etc., but then my attention focuses on the world in my head. I pretty much live in my head, only coming out now and then to attend to things when it's absolutely necessary, or if I'm engaged in an activity that I enjoy.

I'm rarely bored. My brain is constantly amusing it's self by thinking about random things.

Actually it's such a distraction that getting common tasks done is hard.

Even if I do manage to have boredom creep it's way into my brain, I often have my GBA or Nintendo DS with me... instant amusement.

This is what I'm like. I don't like it if I'm going to be sitting alone in my room all day (especially week-ends), but if I got invited to some sort of party on a Saturday evening, I'd give anything to sit alone in my room to hide away from people. I can't win having a stupid brain like mine. I can't make myself out. Even my Mum can't. She says, ''oh, you moan when you're shut up in your room all day, and when you get invited to somewhere, you don't want to go!'' And I say, ''oh, I know!''
But, saying that, what I'll most prefer is good company. For example, I wouldn't mind if somebody said they're going to be coming to my house of an evening or afternoon, and we could do things together and I'll have someone to pass the time with. Even if it's my little 9-year-old cousin - at least it's somebody to watch a film with or go up the town and get a drink with. Lots of people spend time with their little cousins - there's nothing wrong in that.
Anyway - back to what I was saying - if I was at an evening party with lots of other youngsters of my age, I find I get really bored easily, an just want to go home. If I'm somewhere where I don't know anybody, and I'm miles away from home, I start to think desperately of being alone in my room, where I can hide away and feel safe.
Admittedly, I like to do things during the day which involves walking around. For example, on bank holidays in summertime, there is this show, just about two or three miles from my house, and it's one of those things where you see everyone you know up there. There is ice-cream stalls, burgar stalls, drink stalls, car shows, dog shows, tombolas, bouncy-castles, little stalls inside tents. . .and so on. It's a really good sort of place to go for something to do, and I love going there. I don't get bored, because we all go as a family (my mum, my aunts and uncles, friends, cousins,), and I'd rather socialise in that way than to go to a party and socialise. I can't dance, (I have Dyspraxia), and I can't hold a conversation for long with people because the music is too loud to even hear myself speak, and I don't drink alcohol, and I'm not very good at dressing up and grooming myself. . . but at least at a show you can still socialise and hear yourself speak and it's daytime (I'm not a night person because I prefer daylight). So when I'm out somewhere exploring or walking or whatever, I don't think desperately of being at home. But at parties I do feel desperately of being at home.
So maybe my brain isn't confusing me - maybe I'm just not a night-time party person - I'm more of a daytime explorer person. I've just learnt that little fact about me whilst writing this message

I frequently do -- mostly watching televisionor doign other activities that expect me to engage fully in them. I need to be doing multiple things a lot because of that.

If it's something that captures my interest (a topic that I care deeply about) I have no issue staying interested. In general, though, this isn't the case and I do get bored quite easily. I move around from thing to thing because of this.

The only times I had serious boredom problems was in institutions (and it wasn't just nothing to do, it was the oppressive atmosphere), and once when delirious. When I was at all conscious I had this horrible gnawing boredom that seemed related to the pain and hallucinations and the fact that my mind wasn't working right.

Normally I am incredibly easily entertained.

my life mostly careens willy-nilly from boredom to terror to burning irritation, and i must say that boredom beat the hell out of the other two conditions. boredom is my best friend, it is comforting and soothing. boredom is good. or at least it is un-bad.

This is almost the exact same with me.

I get bored easily and it happens quite often but I've found that it's increasing over the past couple of years - just complete boredom not only with activities but also with my surroundings. I think I need a change of place. Somewhere to go through the fun of getting used to.

I could call on friends to help scrape the boredom away but my idea of fun and their idea of fun are very different. It's kinda hard.

When I'm depressed, everything bores me. Generally, my interests keep me engaged, but I still have my moments, since I stay home all the time (disabled) and reading and the net can get old. (I don't watch TV--don't like it.)

I got bored last Friday and it happened for the first time in months I hate getting bored but luckily it doesn't happen often to me.