Do aspies have melt downs?

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Wikipedia has unreliable source of information. Not everything you read there is true. It once said there that us aspies tend to emotionally damage our kids and how we make horrible parents because of our traits.


Anyway I picked aspie and I have meltdowns. But they're not as prominent as they were ten years ago. But maybe someday they will come back when my kid is older because there be more stress.

You don't have to have meltdowns, you may be on the spectrum without them. Some people have all the neurology of ASD and at the same time manage to avoid certain stereotyped behaviors, including obvious stimming (rocking, hand-flapping, head-banging etc). Some people can channel their emotions in smaller packages (sometimes unfairly and hurtfully), use drugs (alcohol, smoking, weed etc.), or simply so much "in" their special interests and own world that no disturbance knocks them out of balance. I may be totally wrong, though.

There was a thread on this exact topic not more than 48 hours ago.

OP you seem to be trying to convince yourself that meltdowns are not part of Asperger's syndrome. Why?

A meltdown is the inevitable crash that occurs when a person's anxiety levels reach critical mass. Anxiety (and the meltdowns that go with it) is a serious problem for people with autistic spectrum disorders. The National Autistic Society (UK) has lots of info on autism, asperger's, anxiety and meltdowns. You'll find it more reliable than Wikipedia.

http://www.autism.org.uk/living-with-au ... order.aspx

Edited to qualify: there will of course be some aspies who do manage their anxiety in such a way that they manage to avoid meltdowns.

Umm I still dont know if I have meltdowns. If I do, I only have them once a year and its just equivalent to a massive breakdown for me where my depressive levels are insanely out of control, just cant get over it. And I've probably only had a few meltdowns in my entire life. Meh...Id say not more then 6 or 7.

I just clicked the option that says I dont cause I really dont know if whatever I have qualifies as a meltdown.

Wikipedia is far more reliable than your typical source of information. If something controversial is posted with no citation, it must be removed, and vandalism is found remarkably quickly.

I am diagnosed and I have 'severe' (according to the staff who work with me) meltdowns. My Meltdowns go both ways, sometimes I am very loud, smash things, scream and hit anything/anyone who comes near me, other times I go completely silent, hit myself and stim. It doesn't seem to matter what triggered it as to which kind of meltdown I get. Prozac seems to have lessened the outwards meltdowns and tends to give me inward ones instead.

Aspie with meltdowns, though thankfully very rare these days. They were frequent in my schooldays, but I've developed better coping skills.

They used to be violent. Now I can't get angry properly, the result of much conditioning to "fix" my temper, which has instead led to all manner of other wonderful things like depression and emotional detachment.