Being Interrupted Or OCD

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I was wondering what causes us Aspies to get annoyed if we are doing something or interrupted? for example tonight I was really annoyed when I am walking my dog I don't want it interrupted or have to cross the street if other people are in my way, why can NT's enjoy themselves in the suburbs but I get annoyed with a lot, I don't know why many of us Aspies have to put ourselves in a recluse or obscurity type of living

I don't know if it's all a neurological issue on why I don't want to be social whether it's in person or on internet yet many NT's thrive on that

This article shares the experiences of a number of neurodiverse people about being interrupted, though it doesn't probe very deeply at all into the causes of their aversion to it.

https://neuroclastic.com/2019/10/29/the ... erruption/

It does suggest that at least part of the cause is the difficulty in resuming the task later, but even that begs the question "why is resuming so hard?" There's also the possible problem of greater tendency to procrastination that would naturally make an Aspie reluctant to pause a task and thereby have to get over that potential hill a second time.

This article suggests that we're already finding it very hard to perform tasks that most people don't have so much difficulty with, and of course nobody likes to be interrupted from a hard task that requires tons of focus once they're in full stride:

https://onebadasperger.wordpress.com/20 ... multitask/

Another way of putting it is given in this cartoon:

https://the-art-of-autism.com/why-its-h ... planation/

And this article suggests memory problems as one of the things that makes it hard for us to multi-task:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/autism-a ... fdf6197946

At the risk of going off-topic, I didn't like this bit of the article - "I wouldn’t be doing him or the rest of the world any favors if I let him think or behave in ways that I know are less than his best effort." The way I see it, it could be a mistake to drive yourself so hard as to always be doing your best. I manage my own way of working by putting something of a brake on flogging myself. Rather like with the popular work ethic, where the phrase "hard-working" has become a very well-used buzz phrase, my attitude is that the problem isn't that I need to push myself harder, but that I need to stop myself from tackling everything full-on. And I think this notion that nobody is doing it right if they're not performing to the absolute maximum of their potential, is somewhat flawed. Comfort management is important to me, and I suspect it's one of those "skills" that has saved me from having a particularly rotten life. And if I'm not going at full throttle, it's easier to stop and easier to resume.