Does it ever feel like you can't stop thinking?

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I realised this a while ago now and think it's meant to be common in Aspies. It's like my mind never stops thinking, I can't seem to switch off. I'm always thinking about anything and everything no matter what I'm doing or meant to be doing......................
Anyone else find this?

Hell yeah, its really annoying. I constantly think about everything and I just wish I could shut it off sometimes. Well if it is a common aspie trait, that explains it.

It also explains why it's so hard for us to get to sleep

There is no switch. There is not even a volume control. Worse still, the intensity and intrusiveness of the thoughts fluctuates wildly, often interfering with any attempt at concentration.

Seriously annoying, but not autism's greatest impairment, in my experience.

It's frustrating, I've sometimes gone days without sleep because of it. Last night I didn't get any sleep whatsoever. The Strange thing is I'm not even tired.

I find sometimes it helps to miss a nights sleep out, cause the night after I fall asleep within about 20 mins
Hopefully you'll have a nice sleep tonight

Hmm... I'm exactly the opposite. I can go long stretches (over 10 minutes) just consciously experiencing without any thoughts forming. I do tend to have short bursts of random thoughts forming, but I can put a stop to them at will. This was not the case when I was younger though.

I have the same, but I do not see it as "annoying", it is just the way it is with me. Quite the opposite: I am still a bit astonished when I realize that NTs do not work this way.

always.
from the moment i wake until sleep.

Oh I've been like that forever....so to use it to my advantage, basically I just think of things I like to think about...including my business. Somehow, doing all that helps me think of new business strategies

I think and think and think, everlong. Sometimes, I even think about absolutely nothing. Like just a mess of thought that has no subject, no meaning. Literally, deep in thought about nothing.

When it's not nothing, it's anything and everything.

((((hugs))))

~Loving Light~

Yeah. So many nights I can't switch my brain off to be able to relax and sleep. It's amazing the power of these thoughts; they never fall to sleeping pills or anything.

I think a lot and my mum always asked me why do you think a lot.

This is only a problem when I need to sleep.

I get this all the time too. When my Mum makes me go to sleep(I usually go on the computer until I'm tired) I just sit on my bed thinking... sometimes I start to hear things as well.
Or when I'm walking through the school I attend, if I wonder about one thing(why such and such a person went the illogical way to their destination, for example) I end up muttering on about it for around 5 minutes. I also like to work things out, once I spent a whole French lesson(I just don't pay attention in French) working out in my head what the teacher would be earning this year and then how many converse shoes she could get. Another French lesson I spent the whole lesson working out the maximum number of babies a women could have.
I guess I do think a lot, but it is rather pointless...
EMZ.

OH yeah, I've always been a nonstop thinker. Right now, I have been daydreaming about being in that Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular for a little over a month now.