Severe exhaustion.

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Does anyone else get this severe exhaustion from even one hour of human contact?

I am in my free taxi from university to home and I am totally exhausted, just from a short meeting followed by a one hour lecture. I have a full-time support worker as my AS is classed as severe and needing extensive support. But I didn't talk to her much. I didn't talk to anyone much. But the mere presence of other humans has completely drained me.

When I get home it will be shower followed by a nap.

Can anyone advise me on how to reduce human contact as much as possible? I want to be as solitary as I can to regain energy.

Texting and using the internet to communicate doesn't exhaust me, just the face to face stuff.

Yup - I call one hour my 'magic visiting cube'. I am well past my tolerance and petering out. My doctor said 20 minutes is more like it. He said people with AS (not universal, I know ) tend to have a shot glass to fill for social interactions while NT's have a mug. We fill up faster with a smaller amount.

I think self-awareness helps and just planning your activities as much as possible to allow the necessary down time. I have to do homework and then go to school, so I won;t get to this right now, but you might want to look up Tony Attwood because I believe he says something like for every hour of social interaction allow n-th time solitary. I just skimmed it with the intent to go back and read more ... but yes, it is common.

So, what you are doing, you might make routine. You might say to yourself : I will be tired after this, so I will rest up as much as possible before I go and then go home and have my routine nap ... and then maybe followed by an activity you find relaxing or something. I have spent a lot of time isolating and it does nothing for the anxiety that I suffer as well. Just food for thought.

Thanks for the advice.

Ah yeah, sometimes I reach that point while still around people or during the social interaction and I can't help but suddenly, completely, zone out visually and aurally; I must look like a vegetable sitting there, focusing on nothing and hearing nothing but it helps and within 30 seconds to a minute, I feel slightly better. I wish I had some secret trick up my sleeve but usually, bathroom visits are what keep me from simply keeling over, haha.