Does Aspergers makes you Lazy

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I want to know.

Having aspergers has nothing to do with laziness. There are both lazy aspies and hard working aspies.

However: Having aspergers can make it hard to do something, giving the appearance of laziness when the person might actually be working hard and struggling.

Wait. Are you asking whether it makes me lazy personally? In that case, no. No more than the average NT.

Or are you asking in general, does having aspergers make people lazy? In that case, see the post above.

It doesnt make me lazy but it makes me appear lazy to others. That's because I don't like going places and running errands that involve communicating and being around people.

I don't think there's anything inherent about Asperger's that makes us lazy, but there are probably certain traits that make some people think we are. I know for me whenever I'm distracted from a particular task, it can be really difficult to mentally get back into the groove of whatever I had been doing. In those situations, it's often much easier to procrastinate or let my mind wander even after the distraction is eliminated.

And, as someone else said, having to deal with people can be difficult so there's another reason to find anything else to do other than make a phone call or go talk to someone. (I try to use email whenever possible in my job for precisely that reason.)

But give me a single task to complete, with unambiguous directions and no distractions, and I can be highly productive.

I am quite sure that there is no connection between Asperger's Syndrome and laziness; however, NTs may perceive some traits as signs of laziness. My mother is under the impression that I'm just 'not trying hard enough', which makes her call me lazy. Shutdowns can also be perceived as laziness - I can become exhausted in about an hour in some circumstances, and most people do not understand this. Inability to concentrate because of distracting stimuli can seem like laziness if a person is unable to complete the amount of work expected.

I think to a certain extent all humans are inherently lazy. All of our most influential inventions came about as ways to make daily life more convenient. Autism actually makes most people work harder to do the things that come easily to allistics. Sometimes a person with autism may exhaust themselves and be unable to keep up with daily life for a time, but that's not laziness. That's needing to sit down after running a marathon.

I agree that it can make a person appear lazy to others because something that "should be" simple is overwhelming.

I'm a big advocate of trading tasks with another person to get things done. For example, while doing chores, my husband will clean the living room as long as I clean the bathroom, which is too much for him. I find the bathroom much easier so I'm fine with it.

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Socially interacting makes me tired quickly, so I usually sleep for a few hours after. I work hard (24-32 hour sessions at a time); Yet I've still been called lazy for waking up at 1800 after a 6 hour nap, post-24 hour work session.

Is there really such thing as lazy?

I sometimes think that is a word people use when someone isn't following their standards. Like a person comes home from work and they are tired so they just have something quick to eat than cooking. Are they lazy?

A parent had just picked up their kids mess and within minutes the room is messy again and the parent doesn't bother to clean it, is she lazy?

A person doesn't bother putting up a bunch of Christmas decorations that year because they didn't want to have to take it all down and pack it all away again, are they lazy?

A person has dirty dishes in the room and someone tells them to bring them up but the person doesn't because he would do it in his own time frame than in the other person's time frame, is he lazy?

And of course what about all these new inventions we have had over the years to make our lives easier like cars, computers, cell phones, quick bake stuff or already made cookie mix or cake mix or dried noodles, machines, airplanes, trains, internet, diapers than doing elimination communication, strollers, playpens, already made baby food, TV dinners, are we all lazy? I sometimes like to say we have gotten lazier as a joke and people will correct me and say no we have just gotten more practical. Now I hear they are making self driving cars already. But I think I will still do it the old fashioned way and only use it when I get tired so instead of pulling over to rest, I can just put it to self drive and no more paying for hotel rooms on the way. Now we can get to places even faster by car. But I think it would be years before anyone can start affording one. Only rich people will have them.

With Asperger's they may appear lazy because they don't do cleaning and stuff when in fact it's executive functioning issues so they need help with that. For me it's because it gets overwhelming and I don't know where to start and I have a hard time breaking it into steps so I might appear lazy to someone like I just don't want to do it. Also what if a person doesn't want to do it, are they lazy?

I guess I just have low energy when I do want to clean, I also can get bad panic attacks when I do clean, I never use to before, but I don't get panic attacks all the time. I also can get hot when I'm cleaning & I can sweat a little that because I'm in perimenopause, I can get hot & sweaty when it's cold outside.

In my case, it does. I barely ever have energy or motivation to do anything, and whenever I attempt to do anything difficult I almost always get overwhelmed and drop it in favor of something else. I'll look at one thing that needs to done, then almost immediately start seeing a whole shedload of other things that that entails. I don't see things in the "big picture", I see things as collections of little details. Of course, my OCD and (probable) ADHD don't help matters...

Nope.

But the presence of other people does... They'd take responsibility for themselves before I would. And I wouldn't bother them -- it's their choice.

Unless I don't trust them..

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I'm not sure. I stubbornly refuse to work on my days off, and I don't know if it's laziness or part of my anxiety disorder, or both.