constantly bored.

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I do like Star Wars and Doctor Who.

This is probably one of the funniest things I have read on WP. I am not being judgemental. I just think it's hilarious.

i hope
i was joking

Sorry I have no advice on boredom. I know this will sound like preaching but try and stay away from illegal substances , at 15 your brain is still developing and you can cause irreversable damage. I am not saying wait till your older before you dabble either as using illegal substances is a gamble , a large percentage of people can get away with the gamble but unfortunately some people lose that gamble - I gambled and lost.

I can't believe I thought you were serious. Well I suppose that is autism for you, not knowing sarcasm and joking. It is a relief you are joking.

i... am really not interested. i mean, it fascinate me a bit but i really don't want to use anything. i know it is dangerous, they repeat it all the times (teachers)
anyhow, thanks

awesome. mucho mucho respect for your attitude

Hi.

That really can be some mild form of depression. I'm always like that, bored to the bone and don't want to do a thing. I just want to sit down and watch time pass by. Sometimes I picture myself doing something different and I feel like it'd be brilliant but whenever I "step out of my thoughts" and into reality, my brain wants one thing while my heart wants something else. These two things don't agree upon what should be done and my heart nearly always wins. It wants to stay trapped inside my bedroom doing nothing particularly constructive while my mind rots away.

Also I become tired easily, feel asleep all the time, and there are times when I feel very excited about something that I will start but hardly ever finish because even if it was very new and interesting at first, it ends up losing all the appeal later on.

Fwiw I was diagnosed with depression way before ASD. The professional who assessed me in the ASD side of things pointed out that people in the spectrum are prone to a number of comorbidities, which ones and to which extent are still under research.

Curiously this is the second time I suggest this today (if I may): meditation helps. Take some Yoga classes.

well, reading what you wrote, your situation seem to be worse than mine, i mean, i am very very easily bored but there are some things i enjoy: biology, geography, reading, wrinting on this site... but i can't do that for more than 10 minutes because i fell sooo bored. i have a diagnose of ADHD, they said that might be that, i don't know
i'll think about yoga classes, thank you

watching my kids (homeschooled) with their friends, it has often struck me how much input their 'schooled' friends need, and how often they complain of being bored. I'm at a bit of a loss, since my kids have NEVER done this, I don't think they know what it is! Ours have almost total freedom, and they're always busy with something.

So why the boredom? I think it's that our real motivation is based on being free to do what we believe is most meaningful and right for us. Most education trains us to think we are not going to be motivated except by being offered bribes (not true by the way). Added to which, we have to spend most of our waking lives doing things that others have decided for us, and listening to how others have interpreted the world, while being given almost no opportunity to interpret it for ourselves.

No wonder kids are bored. Having been frustrated at almost every turn, they kind of grind to a halt! What's left? Drugs, thrills.. but the fun of that will wear off pretty quickly too.

Here's a book that could help that i loved, Grace Llewellyn's 'How to quit school and get a life and an education'. It does have some ideas on how to have some dreams and how to go about living them....

That's exactly how it goes in this end. I have many interests and hobbies. Then I pick some stuff to do... it's boring, drop it, sit down, stare at the walls.

Action sports, you can't be bored if you're scared out of your wits..
Honestly, adrenaline is the best boredom killer I've found.

I think that's 'anhedonia' - the inability to feel pleasure from anything at all. I have phases like that, but thankfully it tends to pass after a few days, and then I'm back to being obsessive and passionate about my interests.

If it's constant, I would want to look into psych meds, because that's an awful feeling!

Thanks. I've heard of anhedonia before but I didn't know what it was.

Sounds like you have Adhd tendencies. As I understand it ADHDers tend to be thrill seekers. You could try bungee jumping. Okay maybe not that. But something beyond the normal adrenaline rush that most folks can take. You are probably too young to fly a plane, which mean you cant fly ultralight aircraft (basically motorized hang gliding kites). But maybe you can join a paint ball club, and play war in the woods by shooting paint balls at folks, and getting hit back.

Not all of us. I'm bored out of my mind all the time, but don't get much thrills either.