Stressed over little things?

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The computer in the office was messing up and I was huffing/puffing and irritated that it was screwing up. Mom said "you're stressed by that what are you going to do about school?" I said school never really stressed me out then she mention what if the bus is 5min. late I said I didn't know. I HATE being late and little things stress me out and piss me off yet school work mostly A OK. Anyone else stressed by small things?

I get stressed out over small things as well. I remember being stressed when my doctors didn't bother to send the immunization form to my college, but I wasn't really stressed when I was informed about having 5 food allergies or possibly having cancer. My parents are always telling me to get my priorities straight lol.

Yes. Things that most people consider "little things" become big, stressful things to me. If I am going to be a little late to class or an appointment I get panicked and sometimes opt not to go to class at all.

I'll get stressed or upset over little things more than the big things. Not I'm not worried about the big things, they're obviously more important, I just purposely don't think about them even to the point where it hurts me in the long haul. Defense mechanism.

Same here...little things < big things, in my so-called own little world/planet. I have this scenario in my head where I am crossing the street and get chewing gum on my shoe, and I am so distressed/focused on that, that I don't see that there is a bus coming straight at me. Yep, it's pretty morbid, but so am I...ah, yet another delightful qurik...

Ohh, I am terrible with this! I suffer from very high anxiety aswell, which doesn't help.
I get stressed over things what most people would stress about, like being stranded somewhere in the snow and can't get back. NTs are on my side when I stress over things like that, because it's a normal thing worth being anxious about.

It's the little silly things what drives NTs mad when they're with me. Most of the time I find myself worrying over mundane things what get mixed up in normal day-to-day life, and that's what causes the arguments. Like once when I was at college, every day we had to be there by 10, which was easy because I could use my buspass any time after 9. But then they started making us come in for 9, so I had to get the 8.20 bus, and pay. It's not really a big deal - but for me it was like it was the end of the world. NTs could not empathise with me on that one because they just could not see the issue in it at all.

I wanted to ask you Aspies - do you sometimes wish things were worse for you so that you could have more of an excuse to get stressed over the little problems? Like for example, my cousin came round last Saturday and wanted me come and meet up with all her friends (who I didn't know), and they were all loud teenage NT girls, and I didn't really want to associate myself with them, so I kept making silly excuses like, ''oh but I might get a headache or something and not feel like standing about with them.'' My cousin and my mum just said, ''stop making silly excuses - take some tablets with you if you think you're going to get a headache.'' So, in an odd part of my mind, I was wishing things like they would bully me or something, so that people could feel sorry for me and I can be excused for having to associate myself with them without having to make excuses. Do you get like that sometimes? (I hope I'm making sense here!)

small things are stressors when there is stress.

if you are moving on track smoothly toward a goal, a penny on the rail can derail the whole train..

It is not the size of the stimulus, it is how much time/energy you need to prepare for it / deal with it aainst how much time/energy you have.

The same stimulus can have big or small effect based on where you are when it shows up.

I seem to have the same issues as most people who have posted before me. Little things like knocking over a beaker of dilute chloric acid stress me, but I am totally calm when someone sets half the lab on fire and I'm usually the first one to remember to get the fire extinguisher while people are still goggling the flames and trying to decide in which direction to run away.

From what I have read over the last few weeks it appears that people on the spectrum really react to stress-inducing events a bit differently from NTs, but I reckon in my case it is also partially due to the safety trainings they do for us every semester at uni. I have been through a number of critical situations in the lab and elsewhere already and this far staying calm has proven to be of help, so I reckon it's more likely that my brain will remember this in the future and allow me to keep acting in "emergency-calm mode" whenever the need arises.

Yes. The little things always seem to bother me more than the big things for some reason. I'm especially prone to getting upset in the late afternoon/early evening.

I cannot stand it when there are little bits of paper or dead bugs lying on the floor (that is one of my peculiar phobias). If I do not get a hot chocolate when I come home from school, regardless of how hot the day is, I get very stressed. Also, if my drink overflows or my food falls off the plate. I do not like getting dirty either, but getting absolutely filthy is fine . I have a vague, unofficial sort-of daily schedule and it worries me when things do not work out as they normally do.

There are other problems, for example, if there is a field trip at school, I absolutely have to know from everybody where I go first and what times I have to be at what places and what things I have to bring and so forth... Yet, when there is a major problem (we are late and the whole class does not know where to go, for example), I surprise myself by usually taking charge if there are no adults present.

I get anxious or stressed over a situation as small as something like, when I'm on the bus I fret about having a toddler sitting in the seat behind me.
But if I had a job interview tomorrow I wouldn't be anxious or stressed at all.