Does the Normal Life Bore You?

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A lot of people do get bored with life, especially with work, but I think NTs are better at enduring things like work, if they're not interested in their job.

I do panic when people say about the retiring age going up and up, so younger people like me will end up working til our mid-70's or something. That makes me feel miserable.

Ironically I get more bored at work than I do at home.

Much of what constitutes ordinary mainstream life just isn't profound enough to hold my interest. It's as if I'm nothing unless I'm at the cutting edge of something new. It's rather a paradox because I need routine to keep me anchored and secure, but there has to be scope for change within that routine. I love trying to do things that push the envelope a little and offer me the hope of achieving something I've not been able to do before. If I travel, I soon get bored silly with "seeing the sights," I always want to get off the beaten track and find stuff that most people don't know about. Conveniently, they're the places where there are few people crowding things out. I think if I just followed the mainstream and did everything in an average, conventional way, I'd feel that my identity had gone, I would be them and not me, and there'd be nothing to live for. So I want to keep my life eccentric.

If u mean by normal u mean unemployed yes it bores me to be layin in bed playing games because no employer out there wants you, you would simply be a hindrance on their business, I would simply be draggin the company down with my social difficulties, poor memory and other things that I can't get rid of.

But thinking outside the box, or thinking ahead whatever makes more sense, yes all that is to life is to earn money, have kids if you think its best which in turn you pass your knowledge, money etc to them once you die (which is of course your choice in your will). So currently i dont earn money, so it would be illogical to get a girlfriend, wouldn't afford a place to stay, risking being homeless in the near future or being dependent on parents for money all my life.

I feel quite differently about this. For me, the normal, ordinary days where everything is just how it always is are the best days for me. I love days like that. I could live a thousand of them one after another and never get tired of them. Whereas I hate bank holidays and summer holidays and Christmas when things are supposed to be 'special' - those kind of days stress me out a lot.

For years I tried to 'be' normal as well as live normal days but it didn't really work out very well - now I just try to be my self and be an OK person - normal, in this context, is over-rated I think.

What is normal life? You mean non autistic life? I dont know how people live their lives so i can say if it bores me or not. My life is pretty normal isnt it? I live in a modern day home, however small but atill has plumbing and electrocity, i go on the internet everyday, take care of my animals and talk to family members. I eat sleep and use the bathroom, isnt that normal?

Normal life isn't really my ambition, but I haven't experienced it enough to get bored, either.

I find the parameters of the conventional world extremely restrictive to my creative and imaginative planet. I realize that I'm unconventional and sort of distant from social conditioning, ever since I was a child, defense mechanisms or lack of response were the typical response when one questions the perils and pressures of society. It likes some "forbidden fruit" type of s**t, BE warned, but I'm like....okay sir/madame.

Having never had a normal life, except for education and work, every step forward I take toward normalcy is exhilarating to me. I have been doing things I never thought I would do and am having fun and building social contacts in the process. I guess I am atypical in this respect, too.

The only thing that makes me anxious is feeling as though I'm in a rush to "catch up." Realistically, I know at 52, I won't catch up all the way, but I could still make a good life for myself.