The End Of The World

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Do little tiny issues feel like the end of the world to you? Do NTs say, ''it's not the end of the world!'', and you're like, ''it is! End of!''

It's like me on the bus. I really despise little kids sitting in the seat behind me. I hate it, I really do. They are so unpredictable, and I just don't like them being too near me for too long (unless I know them). It may sound like a stupid thing, but a little kid sitting behind me is worse than the end of the world, and nobody or nothing can make me change my mind about it. I now have a favourite seat - the seat where others usually sit behind first, so that by the time a kid comes on, it wouldn't be put behind me because there'd already be someone sitting there. Then I'm OK. But if the seat behind me is the remaining empty seat, and somebody puts their kid there, I just have to get up and move. I'm sorry - it's just an awful thing to me. To most NTs, this would never enter their head.

Anyone else invent tiny little issues like this, then grow ''strict'' on it, and get really het up when when you can't do anything about it, like it's the end of the world? The above is an example of the silliest, daftest ''issue'' I can think of.

No, I feel fine!

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane -
Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -
world serves its own needs, regardless of your own needs. Feed it up a knock,
speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height,
down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for
hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies
breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered
crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population,
common group, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its
own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the
reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright
light, feeling pretty psyched.

Huh?

Even if the bomb or bully boy is near, why should we not enjoy ourselves?

A life of fear is no life

NT's have many fears too, and many aspies have thrown their fear away

for caution and discernment

If you dont want to be bitten by tigers or trampled by elephants, dont go to places they might live

I'm not scared at all. I take things like that in stride.

It's not the end of the world, but I do get far angrier than necessary when someone moves my keys or uses my towel.

"Anyone else invent tiny little issues like this, then grow ''strict'' on it"

Sort of, yeah. I try not to, but when I decide something is like a "rule" for me, it suddenly becomes hard to accept when I can't make things conform to that rule, so I try not to make many rules. I am also trying to get better at having my rules be looser.

One thing I can't stand though.. sticky spots on the floor. If you spill something sticky, even one drop, clean it up, or I will destroy you. This is one rule I can't make looser, because one sticky spot can get spread everywhere and then I have to clean the whole floor.

I now have one more thing to deal with as a symptom, rather than a quirk.

I can usually deal with stuff like this without freaking out. Sometimes if things catch me off guard and I already feel on edge, I'll lose my cool. I try not to make too many rules, but I have to have some.