Joined: 21 Aug 2009 Age: 43 Gender: Male Posts: 160 Location: Japanese Pacific States
30 Sep 2011, 1:26 am
viera wrote:
I was told high levels of anxiety can do that too.
Lack of motivation from the beginning builds up anxiety over periods of time - for example, starting from childhood - will build up and up and cause much more loss of motivation in a lot of things, i.e. regressing. It's a vicious cycle with anxiety and motivation (and depression).
Yes, I think motivational issues are very common with Aspies. Like someone else said, if it's not something I'm interested in, I have oodles of trouble getting myself to do it. Even if I do want to do it, sometimes I get too overwhelmed to do so.