Meltdowns where you start to do weird things

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One of my autistic friends had a meltdown due to sensory issues a few days ago. She was working on an art project and then she started acting strange, but she said she doesn't remember what happened (symptom of meltdown) very well. She was knocking over things and giggling uncontrollably. I suspect it was the fume of the markers, because I would have gone crazy too for smelling those things for a few hours.

I recall having something like this except I'm really giggly too and kind of manic and stuff and I start doing weird things like hitting myself or smashing things. Does this happen to anyone else?

My meltdowns are awful. I hit myself with the palm of my hands right in the middle of my forehead, I have body seizures, I pound on doors, Scream random screams and I have bit myself and pulled my hair. When it gets really bad I sit on the floor and put my hands over my ears, and shake my head till I go numb. My tantrums get so bad sometimes that I do it till my body can no longer move due to extreme exhaustion. I have also broken things I loved. I am soon to be 28. It is awful and embarrassing when I get agitated up in public.

Her behaviour does sound like a type of behavioural seizure.

Today I got so angry at the neighbour's cat for refusing to leave my backyard I threw a crate at him and later on when he was on my roof and hissing at me, I sprayed him in the face with a hose, laughed hysterically and did it again.

He really is a horrible cat. He attacks my cats and has a type of split personality as he hisses at us then nuzzles objects near us and then hisses again.

my meltdowns sometimes make me appear like im demon possessed.

It's been a couple of decades since I last had an actual meltdown, which usually consisted of either verbally lashing out at whoever was around or abruptly disappearing, always in response to being overloaded with too many people, too much socializing expected of me, too much random noise, etc. Since then I've gradually learned to detach and withdraw into my usual uncommunicative state, just observing quietly from as far away as possible. I keep getting better at this, though finally getting out into fresh air and a place where nobody will even notice me is always welcome.

"Mini-meltdowns" still happen a few times a week however, but only last a few seconds at the most, always when I am alone, and are basically no more than loudly repeating a word or phrase a few times before I calm down. Since this only occurs when I'm alone, it seems to be of a much different type than what I was going through years ago, which were always in or around large numbers of people and went on for some time, or until I could escape. I hope more meditation will eventually help.

No I never have. My meltdowns are from anger and depression, or panic and stress. Usually from anger and depression, like a mixture of feeling that I can't go on, feeling trapped by my Asperger's and helpless, and feeling sorry for myself. But in a meltdown I remember everything I do. I self-harm (as in hitting myself in the head) because A, I feel angry and frustrated with myself for having Asperger's, and B, not knowing what else to hit so I take it out on my head.

I just kind of lash out during a meltdown, and I feel like a raging bull (I am a Taurus ).

I have meltdowns where I tend to do acts that are violent recently for me. Not often out of my usual pattern of hitting and or biting self