Short temperedness

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I know a few NTs who are short-tempered, or ''waspy''. My uncle is definately NT but he does have a temper. He's prone to ranting and raving and swearing, so sometimes you've got to be careful of what you say in front of him.

But me on the other hand get short-tempered over things what most people wouldn't even worry over. I tend to walk off in a mood if I have disappointment or if something irritates me. But I also tend to go on and on about it, letting everyone know how I feel and I don't know when to stop.
I have a friend who is exactly the same as me (I wonder if she has AS, or something else), and she said she gets in a mood very quickly over small things, but she goes aloof and doesn't talk to anybody. She said it's easier that way, because she can then just go off and get over it in her own time, rather than upsetting other people, and I think I should start doing that too. I am a very big complainer, and I should lay off that and just walk off quietly and let people guess that I'm in a mood and just not talk to anybody, no matter how awkward it might make me feel.

Again, everybody gets angry. Anger is an emotion, and there is so much here about NTs and basing all their intentions on emotion (so I've read many times) that it's naive to think that they never get angry at all, but I suppose people on the spectrum like me are short-tempered over things on a different scale.

I am a very shy calm person, but when something really gets to me i can explode into a horrible nasty person but it takes something big to get me like .
But when it happens its like a switch all of a sudden i can really go a bit crazy and it takes hours to calm down...think it might be my aspergers.

I've never punched anyone or thrown anything. Ever. [except football and Kung Fu]

I have many 7's in my core numbers, virgo ascendant and pisces in 4 major houses

I can fume and bottle up...... but since the head injury 10 months ago, anger has moved even further from me...

Long ago I came to the realization that despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage...

I get angry very easily (I swear my default state is bittersweet, and anger is right below it.) but most people would not know that until they got to know me, and sometimes not even then. When I was younger, I had a very difficult time controlling it (so it was easier to believe back then) but after my sister was born I somehow managed to learn how. I feel like I have multiple short fuses that are twisted together to form a single long fuse. I get angry easily, but I can manage to hide it and control myself...at least until I run out of fuses and the spark comes in contact with the explosive.

I honestly do not know how to control my temper; if I get angered enough, I'm dangerous.

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I used to be very prone to getting extremely angry. I used to have outbursts, but probably none since I was a teenager except for a few occasions when I've been drunk. Not sure how it is for others, but with me I think I find it hard to judge how annoyed I should be by something. So if a housemate does something that irritates me, I've learnt not to say anything as I'm probably being unreasonable. If it goes on long enough (and I get proportionately more wound up) then I try to talk to them about it but I always end up coming across wrong and looking like I'm the one who's done something wrong. Maybe I have.

I seem to have a black and white, but no real shades of grey. Because my natural reaction is to be VERY ANGRY INDEED, I've suppressed it as I know it's wrong in most cases. The suppression has become second nature, part of the panopoly of coping mechanisms that I've implemented and now largely consciously forgotten unless I'm under extreme pressure, but I'd love to be able to judge when somebody is taking the mickey in a friendly way and when they are genuinely being unreasonable. But assuming that people are not being intentionally nasty is the way that seems to work most of the time.

Are anger issues/Aspies/ADD associated with each other?

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I also have a very short temper like that. I get frustrated and annoyed extremely easy and it does not take long before I am on the verge of totally losing control of my emotions. The last time I totally lost control of my emotions, I experienced what I am almost certain was a meltdown. I sometimes wish I could be a Vulcan like in Star Trek so I could control my emotions and not experience rage or a total loss of control ever again.

I have a short fuse aswell
Sometimes with even the smallest things I can find myself first getting very stressed then it's like this feeling inside me