Do you hate it when people try to rush you?

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If people try to rush me I try to tell them by doing that they are going to make me move slower. What's even worse is when people tell me to hurry and then watch me. If that happens I'm often done for the day and totally shut down.

I hate it when people try to rush me. It makes me really stressed.

I see this two ways.

1. Yes, it does bother me.

2. As my brain seems to run at light speeds from time to time, I'm sure my eagerness to move on to the next task irritates others running at slower speeds around me.

We often have to rush my girlfriend's 10 year old aspie, Billy. We don't do this out of meanness, pettiness, or lack of planning on our part. We do it because he has two speeds: slow and piss-poke. We tell him that we need to leave in a half hour and he needs to get dressed. 20 minutes later, he hasn't started as he has been playing with legos. Time to rush him!! ! This happens quite a bit.

Try to consider that rather than telling you to work faster, they're telling you to complete the task for an earlier deadline.

Now you open up more possibliities for yourself You can be less thorough, look at less areas, cut something less important, worry less about formatting, complete the core and add the rest later.

When someone asks me to achieve something faster that is possible, i try to offer them the options. Rather than "that's not possible, stop rushing me" i will use "i can do it by then but i will need to either not add presentation formatting, or leave out the graphs i was going to insert, or i can give you a draft version then and send the other one tomorrow". Something like that gives them options and makes it clear you really really are trying, not just being negative.

If I get bogged down enough by peple's rushing me,
I will just let them do it for me and I coast.

I get very agitated when someone tries to rush me and it bothers me a lot. I'll do something in my own time and if people don't like it then they'll just have to live with it. I like living life at my own pace and enjoying the journey

I schedule myself and adhere to it obsessively.

If I'm rushed, it means I've done someone the great favor of altering my schedule. So naturally I hate it when they rush me.

But I will rush other people (and here I'm thinking of my roommates) if their lack of speed is interfering with my plans or my routine.

I flip right out when people rush me. It is one of many things that will ruin my day and leave me unable to recover for hours.

I don't see how anyone would enjoy being rushed by someone else.

I remember back in my early employee days applying for jobs whose job description often included;

'needs to be able to work under pressure'!

Sometimes the requirement was to 'thrive' and even ENJOY working under pressure Who ARE these people

They also often threw in;

'needs to be able to work in a team' (I think this requirement used to freak me out more than the pressure thing)

It would have been easier to simply state that those on the AS spectrum need not apply

Of course, I didn't know I was on the Spectrum back then.

But I did know that taking one of those types of job (which I did back then for financial survival reasons) would be hell.... and they always were.