Do you fear having a mundane life?

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Here's a question: Is there somewhere you and your son would rather go than the mall? It's not a getaway, but it's a change.

maybe garden

Definitely. Very strongly. I spent most of my life finding answers to life's problems (see AnswersAnswers.com and tough questions). In return I find I have nothing in common with others, because NTs don't like to focus on ideas, and Aspies have their own obsessions. The quest has brought me nothing but grief, yet the thought of just accepting the world as it is, with its hungers and injustice and ignorance, horrifies me. It's an existential thing. NTs can ignore the problems and instead focus on their own happiness. I can't, so happiness is always out of reach.

I am the same in my career as well. I don't want to be an employee, so I make games instead. And I don't want to make games like others make, so mine are fundamentally different.

Come to think of it, I was the same in my 35 years as a religious zealot. others would just attend church for the social rewards, but I had to dig and research and always try to break new ground. Looking back, yes, its an aspie thing.

That has to be one of the most eloquently and articulated expression of feelings I have ever read. Thank you so much for sharing. It was beautifully said and felt by many. Have a beautiful day!

Same for me - I don't do "fear" very well in an alexithymic sense but I do have a sense of dread, of foreboding and avoidance that leads to constantly pressuring myself, to avoid the kind of existence described here - mundane, boring, useless, ignorant. There's nothing worse than that - I would rather live in a disaster that this ... Nothing. It's like such an existence isn't really a life, it's just waiting until you die.
No experiences, no new information, no furthering yourself, no helping male others' lives better, no discovering anything amazing or seeing anything of the world, just ... Nothing.
I had four years of this and I cannot stand it. The idea that this could just continue, indefinitely, then I drop dead horrifies me. I have to get out.

Well I am already living a mundane and repetitive life. You know wake up, have breakfast and a shower, get dressed and go to the car, arrive at St. Luke's Hospital in Metro Manila, Philippines, do two or three sessions of therapy whether it be physical, occupational (which specializes in the hands, rather than the entire body), or speech, go home have lunch and rest for one hour, do additional exercises in the evening, have dinner, do some Sudoku and then sleep. Repeat ad infinitum, and there you have it. Oh and watch a movie on Sundays, every one to weeks. And yes the reason why my life is the way it is is that I've recently had a stroke, and this routine is part of my recovery process. Maybe I'll go back to cooking college in the (hopefully) near future, but as of now that's my life.

I'd prefer a content yet mundane life, to one full of suffering.

Same here. Boring, routine and predictable. Just the way I like it.

I already existed through a mundane life for many years in a self imposed exile so I could figure a lot out and place the blocks down of the life I wish to pursue piece by piece and grow into the form I have sketched, so no I don't fear a mundane life cause I already suffered it. I will always be soothed by repetition and routine but these will just be the walls around which I hope to flow around, I have to respect my brain's wiring after all!

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Nope, I enjoy living a mundane life.