Short temper

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Is a short temper a common aspie trait? For I am feared in my school for my short temper and uncontrollable fits of anger. During these moments my body is in extreme pain which is only relieved by bashing the nearest person with anything I have in hand. When I am by myself I often bang my head, scream, etc.

I usually have a pretty good temper myself.
But when i am short of sleep, i tend to get short of temper as wel.

It is quite common for the emotion anxiety to turn its self into an expresable form, such as anger. You could be repressing your anxiety only to find that it manifests itself in other areas.

I get like that, around the same time, every month. Somebody will say something or treat me in a way that I find derogatory, and I feel myself tense up. Than I go into my room and do some pretty bad Karate Kicks into the air. I come out, feeling better.

How can you be mad for no reason?

I have quite a short temper.. I get very irritable, especially if I'm tired and upset - then I'm horrible. There isn't alot I can do to get rid of it, I used to kick my couch/bed but I kept hurting my feet by missing the soft bits.. and that just made me more angry. Slamming my door and ripping up paper into tiny bits works though.

That's probably why I am so irritable.

I usually have a very long fuse, but if I'm stressed and tired then I can get irritable and eventually explode. I've seen other sites refer to it as "autistic rage". Apparently it's quite common.

I have a very short temper and this is not helped by people who feel they have to bully me at every opportunity....

Relating. Yup. Describes me very well.

I dont have a short temper, quit saying I do!! !!

I have a short temper, but it usually only happens when a lot of people are talking at me at once and it's more than I can take in, or my daughter is screaming at a certain pitch. I can multitask perfectly, as long as none of the tasks involve people, as they're such an unpredictable and demanding factor.
I've shut myself in my room before and banged my head to get the crying sound out. It does unpleasant things to my mind.

My tempers have mellowed at lot with age. It has been years since I have had full blown tantrum. However, as a teenager they were particularly aggressive and the local glazier had to make frequent visits to our house as well as the plasterer who repaired to holes I kicked in the walls. I usually took my frustrations out on property rather than people. Except the school yard which was particularly dangerous in the woodwork school workshop when I grabbed the nearest and sharpest chisel and threatened to drive it right through anyone that came near me. Needless to say, nobody came near me. I would have been on a stabbing charge for sure.

At pre-school days I had the common autistic trait of butting my head against the walls, clenching my jaws tight with my scalp actually seen even as blushing red from beneath my hair, and thrashing out and biting anyone that came near me. That very very quiet kid erupted like a dormant volcano. Sometimes for no appearent reason.

Last edited by paulsinnerchild on 30 Apr 2006, 7:57 pm, edited 1 time in total.

"I can multitask perfectly, as long as none of the tasks involve people, as they're such an unpredictable and demanding factor."

Oh, man! My thaught EXACTLY!

Exactly that train of thought with the predictability! Human beings can predict close to everything and anything. We can predict solar eclipses fifty million years from now, we can tell how the entire universe began, we can foretell the stock market, the warfare, the weather, the tides, the hundreds of millions of transistors inside a computer chip down, so we know exactly how they will behave.
But we have absolutely NO IDEA what another person will say, think, or feel. We can't predict another persons movements or reactions. Well, to a certain degree, but there are no hard and fast rules.

Perhaps that's the meaning of the all powerful "god", who yet has to accept that he has no power over the "free will", life itself.

(Man, that's kinda deep )

Oh, man! My thaught EXACTLY!

Exactly that train of thought with the predictability! Human beings can predict close to everything and anything.
We can predict solar eclipses fifty million years from now, we can tell how the entire universe began, we can foretell the stock market, international warfare, the weather, the tides, how the hundreds of millions of transistors inside a computer chip will act, we know exactly how these phenomena will behave.
But we have absolutely NO IDEA what another person will say, think, or feel. We can't predict another persons movements or reactions! We can think "He/she will probably say yes/no" but it will never be more that a more or less qualified guess.
It's got a higher chance of failure than the chance that our predictions of the next venus passage will fail!

Perhaps that's the meaning of the all powerful "god", who yet has to accept that he has no power over the "free will", life itself.

(Man, that's kinda deep )

My temper tends to vary from being so long that I can wind up being treated like a doormat, to quite short and volitile. It depends upon how much stress I am under at the time. What really sets me off though is being lied to, as well as being treated in a patronising way.


You may want to channel your anger/frustration into writing/music, or some other artistic, or expressive medium.

That's a really good way of describing it. I don't like unpredictability, it scares me. My mother planned a surprise party for me on my 13th birthday, which only involved my two friends at the time. Well, I found out on the day (and I had PMS which didn't help) and had the most horrible tearful, screaming tantrum, and it was called off. Instead, we arranged to go to a pizzaria on a date of my choosing, and I made my own cake. I can only imagine how my mother must have felt, because the average person would consider this a really kind gesture.

As for multi-tasking, my first job as a teen was as a kitchen hand, for 1 1/2 hours a day after school. I was earning a pathetic wage, and what I was expected to do in that time was insane - scrubbing burnt on pots, loading and unloading dishes, emptying scraps, recycling the condiments, wiping tables, vaccuming, leaving the kitchen spotless. It was a very small working space and the serving window dishes were passed through filled extremely quickly, and I had to be careful not to run out of space in the sink or on the bench. It did my head in the first few weeks, and as I was very thorough it took me 2 hours or more before I was out of there, which I was never paid for. I found myself a routine and could soon manage several of the tasks simultaneously, at lightning speed. I'm proud to say I never dropped a single piping hot tray of dishes, nothing short of a miracle as I'm clumsy by nature. But if someone interrupted me with an unexpected question or request - it all went completely haywire and I got very flustered. I can cope with social interaction or precise repetitive tasks, but I can't mix the two.