How patient are you?

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im extremely inpatiant

I don't do patient very well... I can be forced to be patient, but if I've @#$'d something up, I want it fixed yesterday. I feel that people want instantaneous action as well. Aside from that...

I'm quite impatient (want problem fixed five minutes ago, not five minutes from now) with people & things. However, though I don't think of myself as being this way, people tell me I must be very patient to create the designs I make (such as the image in my avatar-I drew that, freehand)-because they take me 12 hours (more or less) to complete.

My patience with NTs used to be minimal at best. Lately I've been more understanding of them but I can't consider myself patient with them yet.

Belfast, I can relate to your post. People are often amazed at my patience, because my hobby (miniature painting) can take me 3 months to paint a single piece, and I'll spend hours at a time doing it..but I lose my temper, whilst driving, with other people on the road before I've even reversed out the driveway! And I'll walk in the road to avoid being held up by slow people.
As I was once told by a health worker..I've got 'a lot of patience, but very low tolerance'

I'm generally a patient person, although sometimes not.

It all depends on the circumstances.

My mother told my psychologist at the last meeting that I am not patient...but then others have said the complete opposite about me.

I am really impatient, my impatience annoys me.

One can have patience in one area (in which many folks lack perseverence or fortitude, such as arts & crafts), yet have none in another area (in which most folks are expected to posess great deal of patience-such as slow people taking up whole width of sidewalk). So, one may appear as an overall impatient person, just bc. one hasn't got that tenacity for many "usual" parts of life-or one may seem to be a generally patient person, bc. one can tolerate doing fine detail work for hours & days.

Of course, the person in question (such as myself) is neither wholly patient nor absolutely not-it's just that which aspects are noticed influence how one is judged/perceived/categorized. Which is not to say some folks don't differ from each other on this scale, merely that it's a bunch of stuff at once-and what's considered "standard" pattern (which things provoke frustration/aggravation reaction & which things one can handle well) can distort viewpoint.