FUCK! I just wrote a post here and accidentally closed the tab. I reopened it with ctrl+shift+t but my message was gone. =(
This sucks. I liked the post I was making and don't want to write it all again. This fucking sucks. I'll try to summarize but am going to rush it.
Basically, I was up doing a research project for 22 hours straight yesterday, because I had to finish it before taking the test which I just finished an hour ago. I also got 2 hours of sleep because I was working on the project until 8 am. There's a mode that my mind goes into whenever I'm EXTREMELY stressed or upset in some way and need to get something done or just do not have time to break down. While in this state, I run my emotions in the background and devote no conscious attention to them. If I don't focus on them, I can't feel them. I still feel them in a way, but I force my mind to just endure and get whatever done, despite being upset and tired. That description doesn't really describe it accurately. It feels like a specific state of mind, an adaptive human defense mechanism. Or did my own mind come up with the mechanism? So, I'm wondering whether anyone else experiences something similar.
Even though I'm finished with this course, I don't feel like I'm actually finished. I've been so stressed over the last few days, I can't let go of that feeling, and I feel like there must be some extremely stressful thing I have to do that I'm forgetting.
In the car, after my mom picked me up from the test center, she asked me something odd. She asked if I was hungry, and if I want to go out with her for a glass of wine. "Wine? At 3 pm?" her: "oh idk... why not!?" I said no because that would just be weird and I don't like talking to her for extended amounts of time. But she wanted to talk anyway, so we talked throughout the car ride and for a few minutes after we got home. She thinks I have Asperger's syndrome, which I denied. I was running on 2 hours of sleep and was so tired, and wanted to enjoy the course being over. In fact it almost felt like something stressful was bound to happen. I admitted I didn't want to have it because of the name. But also, I don't like labeling myself with things. Unless there's some underlying brain condition, I don't see a point in labeling people with disorders based on some random conglomeration of odd personality traits.
My mom thinks that she herself has the condition mildly, and she wonders if maybe I have it. Basically, this bothered me because I have no problem with my personality. I know that I act completely differently from other people of my age and gender. But my personality is unique. I used to be self-conscious about it, but now I've accepted it and am happy with myself. But I've always felt that she has a problem with the way I act, that she's judging me heavily whenever she sees me, and this feeling may lead to me acting even more like I have aspergers around her, because it makes me get all tense and not want to speak to her at all, and I end up speaking all monotone. This causes me to be even more self-conscious about it. So I feel like her bringing this up, although she says she means well and I'm sure she thinks she means well, is really just a method she's using not to think there'es something wrong with me. If I had some personality disorder that could be labeled, she'd no longer have a problem with me and think there's just something wrong with me, and instead she could just categorize me to have asperger's and so my personality might start to make more sense to her. I did get curious and took a stupid online test
http://www.aspergerstestsite.com/
and scored 28, which is labeled as 'borderline'. But I felt like those questions would be answered similarly by most antisocial people, so I don't know. Maybe someone else can take the test.
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