Tired from a few hours of being outside..

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hi,

just wondering if you guys too suffer from this problem, that is of getting so tired and burned out from the simplest things such as a few hours outside....

i notice that i get easiest tired when i am with people or i interact with people, but i also get tired from a lecture at university and so on, i usually go home from a few hours of lecture and crash... i also get this way if i have not eaten in a few hours and i notice how i get "cranky" and hostile..

is this common with people who have AS?

There used to be a question about getting tired from interacting with people on the Aspie Quiz. Apparently this is a symptom. Try and sort out whether it's just being outside that makes you tired or if it's being around other people, inside or out, that does this. Being a focus of attention or remaining at attention around even other people I like makes me tired unless I have prepared for it and it is for a very limited time. I used to think it might be an attention problem, a thyroid problem, or the fact that my blood sugar remains around 90 no matter what I eat.

Yeah, it's fairly normal for us if I take what I've seen on the forums. On normal weekdays I regularly get migraines, fatigue and sickness from the sensory overload and the strain of socialising. I'm getting some ear-defenders soon and they will hopefully help.

I need to crash too after college- it can really affect the next day since I have to get up early to do my assignments and catch up with whatever I didn't take in at the classroom. My psychiatrist has told me basically to stay away until she can talk to them about giving me a more flexible time table so I can take breaks in between.

I can sympathise with your situation- it's really not nice on those days when you are just so exhausted from something neurotypicals cope with easily, and I've noticed that most of the professionals I worked with didn't know that this happened to people on the spectrum.

i do suffer from hypothyroidism, and what i mean by being outside is that i am around people as walking in nature ect is something i do to relax...




i find that talking to people i know is very hard on me..

i also get very easily tired from sunlight as my eyes hurt...

when i go out to dance in the weekends i tend to think the music is very loud and i usually bring with me a pair of ear plugs which i use:)

i dont understand what i can do as i am not used to "recognize" when i get tired, i always assumed it was the same for everyone...i guess i must reconfigure my days to be more AS friendly....that means less interaction with people and more hours sleeping as at the moment i need atleast 9 hours to be in working condition for university....actually i fear that i may not be able to pass my final exams because of this issue....but i have also come to terms with the idea that i dont really care much and so if i have to i will just have to retake the exams a few times.. we have three try's here in Norway so i have three times atleast:)

i used to get headaches as a child and into adolescence, but when i got reading glasses some of the headaches went away, i do get them if i study to hard and so on, but for the most part they are just low pain types that are annoying, but not that hurtful....

Isn't that in the normal range? I would have thought that such a stable blood sugar level would be a boon. My blood sugar has a tendency to get too low and I get dry heaves.

Yes, but on the low end of the normal range. I can sometimes feel a bit compromised if I get too hungry.

I do ok interacting with people when I am on my own turf, because I can move around and escape intermitantly and find stuff to hide behind and whatnot. When I am not on my own turf I can feel overloaded and I get worn out pretty easily. When my venue is in full-swing..I have to have an activity to work on while I am doing my club-running duties...and focusing on that activity helps keep my from getting too overwhelmed.

i used to have a bad habit of falling asleep whenever I would go on a social visit to someone's house and everyone would be casually sitting around chit-chatting. My very AS-ish friend has the same habit...but it kinda is exacerbated by the fact that he drinks a bit..but even if he didn't, i bet it would still be a habit.

I went to an Aspie meeting yesterday that was way down the freeway, and when I got back I had a sort of meltdown where I felt really uncomfortable and I cried and threw up and ended up sleeping really late...It reminded me of the sort of thing that would often happen to me as a kid when I came home from school.
I used to always have to really decompress every day after school, and it would sometimes take hours before I could motivate myself to do anything, and i would often come home feeling sick and with headaches.
When I have had normal 9-5 jobs..similar thing. I was useless for several hours after work.


My very-ASish friend gets cranky if he is stuck out doing an activity for too long.
We rode our bikes to a few thrift stores and by the end of it, he had gotten increasingly cranky because it was just too much activity.
He works a full time job, and after work, he really has a hard time doing much of anything else.

I've had some business meetings that tire me out. Typically it's the phone conferences that do me in.

One I recall in particular left me feeling like I ran a marathon, it was terribly boring and I spent so much energy trying to keep up with all the various voices of people I did not know talking (they were all in a room and I was the only one on the phone). Anyhow, it finally ended when I managed to come up with a great idea that practically ended the conference. It was weird too because I was struggling to pay attention and an idea just hit me, I mentioned it and it went over well and everyone said goodbye.

well this is really two different things you're mentioning.

In regards to your first point... no, actually I don't get burned out from being outside. But that is because working with plants (therefore likely being outside) is my strongest obsession. And I do so for hours on end with little to no break, sometimes ignoring warning signs of dehydration or exhaustion because I am so utterly into what I am doing. The drive to be around and work with plants overcomes any physical symptoms I might otherwise feel.

But, concerning your second point, I am in total agreement. When I have to be in loud, variable social situations, especially when it goes on all day (as in, at some jobs I have worked), I am a worn-out wreck when I come home. Strangely, yet understandably, this is not due to the fact that I have done manual labor all day. I might have been sitting comfortably behind a desk. What tires me out is strictly the social interaction. The work and stress that my mind goes through when I am around lots of people affects my body as though it has just walked for 20 miles. Then when I actually do manual labor (like digging, lifting, moving stuff, the real work that goes on in my garden) I feel energized, lucid, and happy. Seems somewhat paradoxical. Well, it probably would to someone who was not me

What an interesting thought. Thank you for this post.

Yes I get like this all the time. There is the rare occasion where I can manage it, but usually I crash as soon as I get home, if not before. A LOT of things about everyday life tire me out. I would like to make my life less 'everyday', but unfortunately I'm obliged to be at least somewhat everyday at present.

I am the same way. Being around others exhausts me. I'm sure its mostly sensory overload. I'm also hypervigilant because of the PTSD so it only adds to the problem. I often go to places like Walmart without wearing my hearing aids just as a way to lessen sensory issues as its certainly a lot quieter without my HA's. The only down side is running into someone I know while I'm out and not hearing them then they think I was being a snob or something ignoring them.

As soon as I step out of bed.

Everything requires a mental plan over here, and each plan just adds to the mental exhaustion and effort it takes to do the simplest of things. Not to mention the change everywhere....

I'm OK if I'm alone, but, any kind of social interaction wears me out. After a family gathering, or someting comparable, I need to lay down(or nap) for a couple hours, to recuperate. Even something like a phone call can be enough to wear me down, which is why I spend most of my time alone.