Why Don't I want to go outside anymore?

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Well the title pretty much says it all, for some reason I don't want to go any where besides my room, I'm not afraid of outside I just don't have the will I guess to do it. I have a group meeting later today, but I don't want to go, I also have tutoring, but there is something wrong? I don't know what and I know that sounds kind of stupid, but I just don't feel good ( I'm not sick either). However if I don't go to these places im going to be behind and it will be the first time I have stayed home is there something wrong with me, or has any one else felt like this?

Cos it's winter and it's cold and it sucks.

That's my excuse, anyway!

I'm the same way, I always attributed it to mild depression.

I guess that explains alot considering i have Severe Depression

Yeah, definitely due to depression. I get the same way.

pfft, outside over rated anyway...

Yeah, i actually went out yesterday even though i din't want to only because i knew i needed to, and i ended up coming home in a panic attack, so ill have to figure my way through this obsticle. (Pardon my Grammer and Spelling)

I'm not depressed -- at least, not clinically, and I don't show depression or feel depressed -- but I have no motivation to leave my room, either. After all, I have my laptop, TV, sketchbooks, radio/stereo, bed and closet in here. The bathroom's down the hall and the kitchen is just downstairs. I have the life.

Still, the reasons I drive or go anywhere aren't for pleasure. I rent from the library, so I gotta go back and turn my stuff in; I go to my job; I get gas for the car; I go to school. That's all I can think of... Until I move out, my parents buy my food...

If I make plans with friends, then we could go places, but our options are limited. So, yeah. No motivation. I'm not the type to wander around on my own. It seems really pointless to me.

I remember staying inside a lot when I was a teenager---I just enjoyed looking at house plans, playing the organ, researching roller coasters, etc. My mom used to get upset with me staying inside so much in the summer when the weather was beautiful. But then when I went outside I liked to set up a tent and go in it and read. I did go outside some, but just preferred inside. One thing I would do outside when I was growing up would be to walk this specific pattern over and over again around our yard. I did have an outdoor dog until I was in junior high school---so I did spend time with her outside.

Kaleido also liked house plans---interesting that so many of us with Asperger's love house plans. As a teenager I always wanted to go to the bookstore so I could buy house plan magazines. I am now 44 years old and still love them. On Saturday afternoons my normal routine was this---stay inside even though the weather was nice and get out my house plan magazines. I would lay them out on the floor and eat cookies while bowling was on TV. I also liked to design my own houses---like Kaleido.

There were 4 house plans I obsessed over. I used to spend long amounts of time just looking at them. Today, I have gotten the blueprints for those 4 houses. As 3 of them are over 4000 square feet, I don't think I will ever be able to afford building them, but I could build a scale model of them. I also just got one of those Punch! house design programs for the computer---so I plan on putting those houses into it and see them in virtual reality. Just the thought of being able to take a virtual tour inside of these homes makes me incredibly excited.

I like going to online estate agents and looking at brochures and plans like the ones on Primelocation, god, its H E A V E N

Kaleido---here is a site to keep you indoors for a long time. You have probably heard of it---HABS (Historical American Building Survey). They may have sites like that for architectural sites around the world.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/

I love Belle Grove in White Castle, Louisiana. Unfortunately it was destroyed. But you ought to search for it on there---just make sure you get the one in Louisiana. The one in Virginia is neat too.

Yeah before i was home schooled, in the second grade we used to have free time and i would grab like 20-25 yard sticks, and i would just sit there making bridges with them, people never understould how i did it without any glue or tape, lol.