Anyone else rarely get meltdowns?

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I just don't get meltdowns. I still get anxiety attacks or extremely annoyed at people, but I haven't had a full-blown meltdown since I was twelve. I occasionally get shutdowns, but even those are pretty rare for me. I think it's because meltdowns are caused by people treating me like a child. Since I'm too old to be treated like a child I no longer get meltdowns.

I also don't get actual sensory overload. I get sensory issues when I have a cold or flu, but I usually call in sick when I have sensory issues anyways. When I am dealing with sensory issues it just makes me irritable and antisocial. It never causes meltdowns or sensory overloads.

I'm about the same. It's been quite a while since the last meltdown, but shutdowns are still a present possibility, if a bit rare. Sensory overload, on the other hand, can happen from time to time.

Mine aren't common anymore as they were when I was a teen. That is because I am in control of my environment and I am not in school anymore and my brothers are grown and on their own and I don't have a need for Parade of Home (my term for wanting a clean house you would fine when looking at an open house) so that helps. It's rare when I don't have control of my environment and I will get anxiety first before the meltdown comes if nothing is done about it before it comes. I also don't get sensory overloads anymore. When I have to deal with sensory issues I also get irritable and short tempered but I don't meltdown about it. I never had meltdowns about it in fact. I would just be distracted and be distressed, that's it.

I´ve had blow-ups as a a kid, a teen and a young adult and I get shutdowns, especially in noisy environment - and occasional panickattacks. During a couple of those the sounds seemed to form a crescendo and I just had to get away. Maybe they were borderline meltdowns?
Actually don´t know, if I ever had one? I have certainly had a short fuse.

I used to have loads of meltdowns as a kid and when I was in my early teens. Now I rarely have them at all now.

No meltdowns here. I've been able to control my environment quite well, so I give myself a lot of time to decompress, and anything that needs a special effort is usually soon done with. Day to day, there's very little to stress me out. Even when I was working, although I got quite a lot of stress, it was never enough to send me over the edge, though I think it was a close call sometimes.

No melt downs for me. I internalize stress and get terrible headaches. Mini shutdowns are more frequent, they feel like a prolonged time out. Having control over my environment is a big advantage.

I still have meltdowns, but I've learnt to "hold it in" until I'm alone.

Very few meltdowns, I am a shutdown autistic.

I am 31. According to my parents I got a few really scary meltdowns when I was a child (I don't really remember). Then nothing between the ages of about 10 and 25. Then a few years ago I started having meltdowns again. (Now it's much rarer than 5 years ago but I know it can still happen.)

I link that to my ability to cope with the world. Between 10 and 25, I had a very simple social life : my family, a few friends with whom I did games and intellectual activities, and that's all. In high school I did not care to communicate with anyone except 3-4 friends; in college it was better and people globally liked me although I could hardly really connect with anyone. I had few social skills but I didn't need many, so it was not a much problem. In a nutshell, I was a quite lonely and sometimes anxious but otherwise happy introvert.

A few years ago I got frustrated with being socially awkward though; I started to experiment and my social life suddenly became much more complicated and demanding, much more than I could handle. That was what triggered meltdowns (along with depression and a lot of unpleasant things). Since then I got better at handling my social life (and I also got diagnosed ith AS) and the situation improved, although it's still quite excruciatingly demanding.

But the point is : I link meltdowns to a discrepancy between social demands and social skills. During a long time I had few social skills but very few social demands too, so it was OK, no meltdowns. Then social demands increased and I got meltdowns. Now my social skills have increased (and some social demands have decreased, because some people have registered and understood I am autistic) and things get progressively back under control.

(BTW, first post here in more than a year I think, hi again to anyone I used to know around here and sorry if I left unfinished business or discussions last time I was around.)

Never from sensory issues. I've had a handful of anxiety meltdowns where I started to physically shake though.

As an adult I was doing really good for a while as I mostly had enough control over my immediate environment enough of the time to decompress/decompose. Then we had kids. Who, being our genetic offspring, verbally & otherwise sound-stim almost constantly. Now I have at least weekly meltdowns of some severity that are sensory triggered. Funny thing is I'm finding myself forced to fall back on the coping mechanism externally induced in my childhood, which was to only partially shutdown & just repress any internal reaction. Almost made me wonder if NT people do that as a matter of course as it was SO expected of me growing up. I don't think so, though, because if they did wouldn't they all be basket cases from the stress?

I don't get meltdowns very often. It is more common for me to shutdown.

I do get meltdowns, but I don't get sensory overload.

I usually shutdown. I internalize my thoughts and feelings which means I try very hard not to let people know what I'm feeling, so I wander off to shutdown.

Though I've had a few occurrences where I ended up being frustrated/stressed and suddenly I was dizzy, shaking, and just plain enraged, I wanted to scream and kick and destroy things. The part of me that internalizes things wouldn't let me, I was aware enough to know my family would hear and I didn't want them to know. I would start scratching myself harder until the dizzy enraged feeling turned into an intense numbness with no thought and I would just keep scratching myself. When it was over I had scratched myself up pretty good. I felt a lot better, but what I had felt frightened me. I don't know if these occurences were what would be called a meltdown or just rather violent shutdowns.