tropicalcows wrote:
I start to feel a meltdown coming on. I stim basically 99.9% of my waking hours to prevent that from happening. It's like there's a strong energy in my body that needs to be released constantly.
Now this is interesting. As I said, I don't stim, probably mostly, and never have, unless you count some little "maybe it's stimming" things. I have also never had much energy for anything, even my Special Interests. I've attributed that to the depression hanging around even when it's not there (since I learned about the Asperger's, just a couple-two-tree years ago, I've generated some theories about the depression arising from the Asperger's, and different methods by which that might have worked). This idea of stimming arising from excess energy (which I don't have)....
I have had my share of meltdowns, though they aren't frequent unless the World Outside is giving me a lot of hassle.
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