Do you feel puzzled when someone complains about being bored

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You know how, when people have an extended holiday from work or school, they appreciate the freedom for a few days or at most a week, then they start getting bored and restless and not know what to do with themselves, and can't wait to go back to work or school?

Everyone I know is like that and it puzzles me all the time because there's so much to do I never have enough time to do it. I can spend 18 hours a day on my special interests and still think that's not enough.

I would be the happiest person in the world if I never have to go to school or work and can engage in my special interests every single waking moment of my life.

Which is not to say I never feel bored. I'm bored in social situations when people are talking about stuff I have no interest in and I'm bored when I'm stuck somewhere where I have no access to something I'm interested in. :p

Anyone else feels the same?

Yeah, I can understand this one.

I dont have to work OR go to school, and I do not get tired of that fact. I never reach a point where I'm like "Gee, I'd sure like to be working again!".

I will never understand why some people do get to a point of WANTING to work. Perplexing indeed.

My mother has said before that if she didn't work she would be bored.

I don't understand that. Most people don't work because it's interesting or fun. They work because they need to to earn money to live.

I totally agree. I only ever get bored if I'm stuck somewhere with nothing interesting to do e.g. in social/work situations like you say. The rest of the time I'm just frustrated because I'm impulsively interested in so many things that I switch from one to another continuously.

I have an average of 40 tabs open on Google at any one time, as well as several other programs/computer based projects running. Then I might also have a lap full of other toys like origami or knitting or interesting lists/diagrams I'm creating. Then I'll also likely have a book or two at my side and my Kindle in my pocket (big pockets to hold extra toys!). Then I might gaze listlessly out of the window thinking how unfair it is that I don't have the time or resources to do some other thing that I've just realised would be really exciting. I always have two or three primary projects which I keep going back to, and then an unlimited number of mini-interests that might grow or suddenly vanish at any given time.

I never go to bed on time because there are never enough hours in the day to satisfy me. The only time I ever do get bored in my preferred habitat is if I'm ill or exhausted to a point where my brain is raring to go, but my body just can't physically respond or my thinking is too foggy to follow through properly. Those are the most frustrating times of all.

My partner is the opposite. He gets bored a lot and seems to have very little sense of passion - something I simply can't fathom. He'll pick up hobbies occasionally, throw himself and a load of money into it briefly, and then go cold on it and get bored again. He's restless all the time because he can't settle into anything and meanwhile I just want peace, quiet and a laptop so I can pursue all my interests without interruption. Weekends together can be a source of stress for us. It's saturday now and he's pottering (fairly aimlessly it seems) whilst I'm Googling and playing with a database. Long may it last.

I don't get bored, so probably.

Yep, this is pretty much what I feel as well. I'm hardly ever bored. I love spending time by myself and I always know how to spend my time.

The only times I get bored is when I'm with a group of people that is collectively doing something that does not interest me.

That's exactly what I told my brother last time! I just can't understand people who say they are "bored"... never happened in my life. There's so much to do.
I feel that bored people are boring people themselves

Oh, yes! I completely and totally agree!

Working is incredibly boring! Learning about special interests is fascinating and fun!

Thankfully, since having a nervous breakdown I no longer have to go out to work. I am able to stay at home all day and rest my poor brain that spent many years in the slavery and drudgery of doing meaningless dull actions all day long in an NT workplace.

People are always saying to me pityingly: "Poor you, having to stay at home all day! What do you do all day long? It must be so boring!" and I just stare at them in disbelief, and struggle to try and find the words to explain how wrong they are.

I never can. I can never explain. I shouldn't have to explain. It should be obvious. Why can't they see that they are the ones who should be pitied, for being forced into doing horrible boring jobs all day long, and never being able to learn any exciting facts or do any exciting new hobbies?

How could I ever be bored being at home? There's so much to do!

The only thing that frustrates me is that I am never going to be able to do it all. There are so many things I would like to learn, and so many things I would like to do, and it makes me sad that I cannot do them all.

I like reading about all the special interests people on here have. In a way, it doesn't matter that I don't have time to learn everything. Between us, we've got it all covered.

Some people on WP do astronomy and some people do patchwork and some people ride horses and some people do sports and some people mend televisions and - oh, I wish I could do all of those things myself! But I can't. How sad.