shortfatbalduglyman wrote:
Dragons and demons
The older I get the less excitement I want
What you call boredom, other autistics call obsessive compulsive disorder
What you call excitement other autistics call Adrenal Fatigue
Plenty of jobs are boring.
Especially the jobs that I qualify for
And sometimes the job description makes the job sound not that boring
For example when I worked as a data entry clerk. It was typing letters a to Z and numbers 0 to 9. Forty hour a week. That is much more boring than not having a job
Some jobs sound exciting or interesting. But you get there and it is not that interesting
You can't measure boredom
Getting raped is exciting
Excitement is not inherently good or bad
Yeah, the one job I had was pretty boring - just cleaning bathrooms, emptying trash, and sweeping the floor. A lot of jobs are just doing the same thing every day. I don't want excitement so much as distraction. Personally I don't really like a lot of excitement even if it's for a good reason - it tends to be overwhelming for me. I guess I'm just looking for something that might help keep my mind off the depression and urge to self-harm. That's where my mind tends to go if it isn't otherwise occupied.
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Yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage. For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Outsider"