too old for meltdowns??

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so yeah i just spent half an hour screaming and punching my wall out of frustration and then threw my phone and computer in the floor and started crying, which i guess you can call a meltdown

but then my mother started yelling at me because we have guests and even though i was in my room this was embarrasing and she thinks im too old and i just need a little support thanks

What triggered it?

i was at a wedding this saturday and very tired from that so i had it kinda built up and then my underwear was itching and yeah

I kinda have meltdowns and throw stuff around but only stuff like my glasses and I just make movements with my arms just really bringing them up and then down again. I also sit by the radiator in the dark as well. I am afraid of breaking something and getting in trouble. I also share my room with my younger sister. She really makes me angry and sometimes I get really angry and I just can't get away from it. They are really hard to control for me.

Your mother probably has some weird idea that people will mysteriously find out her daughter is having a meltdown. She is embarrassed and paranoid. I would also suggest better underwear. I know how irritating it can make you feel.

You'll never really be "too old" for them. I'm 20, and while I've developed some means of postponing or mitigating the really dangerous elements of them ((tw-self-harm(I don't hit or otherwise injure myself anymore) they still come up.

Parents, especially NT parents, don't get that meltdowns are often just flat out unavoidable. As much as we try, they just happen.

Frankly, I think you handled this one really well - you separated yourself from others, it doesn't sound like you caused anyone or yourself significant physical harm - so I don't see why your mother got so bent out of shape over it.

Keep swimming.

Nobody is too old for a meltdown.

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for meltdowns and any issues that comes up... or if i am not acting like the cliched 35 yr old woman... then i'm getting yelled at and reprimanded.

It happened to me an awful lot until I went to this one private school. It helped me a lot. Now I rarely have them, but if I do, I take breaks.