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Just had a shutdown type of experience but with a difference.

As I go along I am assessing myself. What I mean by this is as I experience things like partial or full shutdowns I am mentally recording the moment and trying to evaluate what is going on.

The experience I had was what I would call a full on partial shutdown which came close to a total shutdown, but two things about this one did have a slight difference (Yes, I've experienced these aspects before and only now after the experience whilst still almost in a daze as the tail end of the experience wears off).

First of all. Whenever I go into the more serious end of a partial shutdown which very close to a full shutdown (I just started going into a full shutdown but managed to pull back out of it) I get a panic which is a similar panic as I get if I am about to be sick. I panic when going sick because I pass out and while passed out, if I am then sick I have the sick blocking my airways, which maybe why I panic more then I would if I just went sick? Not sure. All I know is that the panic I just felt in this experience was very similar).

Now the cause of this shutdown this time was one which I am a little puzzled by. I was just finishing writing a long drivel about tyres in the car thread. (Oh gosh! I hope it makes sense because I did go on in it a bit, and I don't really feel up to editing it to shorten it and make it make more sense).

As I write this I am smelling some sort of plasticky smell. Just checking if it is this tablet? Seems ok... Just turned the ceramic fan heater off for a bit just incase.

Anyway. Triggers. It could be me trying to explain via a post about tyres... That I was mentally thinking...
However, I noticed I had the heater pointed towards me and I suddenly got too hot. I suddenly became clammy and sweaty with the panicky feeling.

Can still smell a faint plastic. It is almost like a battery smell? Snifing tablet and sniffing phone. Sniffed the heater. Nope. Its not them. Strange!

Anyway. I have had this before. Question. Can heat be a trigger? (I don't normally smell plastic so it is not that). As sometimes, if I have to sit next to a heater I can start to shutdown. I am only just now thinking about this.
But another sign which can cause me to head towards a shutdown on occasions is when I feel the need to go to the loo. I can slightly feel I will need to go but it is not quite time yet.. But sometimes, I can partly shut down and come close to, or even shutdown about half an hour before I need to go to the loo (Solids), but I can also get a similar experience when I need to go front end but I can't find a loo straight away.
So it is difficult as it could in effect be one of those three things.

Now (I am in a daze of a slight feeling of a partial shutdown as I write this so I am taking it easy) I find... What was I going to say? Uhmm. Wait a bit. Let me think...
Oh, I will justnpost this as it is as it will come back to me in a bit... Ooh. That's it. When I get the type of shutdown where my skin goes clammy (Noted in the comprehensive shutdown link someone once posted to me) when I can get my body to move and I am not fully shutting down, I will try to eat some chocolate. Somehow I need it. This time I drank some cola and ate some chocolate and then ate an apple (Somehow it came to me to eat one of the apples we have, and I don't normally touch apples), and the effect of eating does aid my recovery.
I will need the loo soon though. Maybe in about 10 minutes... And, I can still smell that smell which seems to be in my nose? Not quite had that before! Well. Not after a shutdown. Uhmm. Unless.. Oh. I did open the kitchen door. Maybe the fire we have has something in it. I will investigate in a bit.
No. Everything in here is fine.
Ah well. I had better post this.

Question. Sometimes the symptoms of a shutdown can take very similar but slightly different forms? Uhmm. It is almoat the same but a slight small difference. But me and feelings... Well. I have the impression that some feelings that I have which I find hard to explain to the point that I don't know how to explain (Not neccarily talking about shutdowns here. Talking in general) as sometimes feelings can mix but seem the same when they should be different somehow? Not sure... Oh... Am I making sense? Is it possible for someoe to be out of touch with some of ones feelings? Or maybe not so much out of touch, but it is as if some feelings can cross wires somehow? I don't know. I can't exactly work it out!

The smell... Uhmm. It could be this tablet as it has dropped from 29% charge and is now on 21% charge... And it does not seem to get to 100% or if it does, it sems to drop fast.
But it works!
If I sniff the tablet, I can't smell it. Oh gosh. I am turning into a serial tablet sniffer now! HAHAHAHAHA!

About your tablet ... do you ever power it down, as in completely shut it down, or keep it on all the time?

You mean switch it off? Last night it dropped quicker then I expected even while on charge so it ended up switching itself off at 0% charge.
It is at 19% now.

I normally leave it on but it will be on charge when I go to bed, and I then use it in the morning.

I'd power it down(switch it off) overnight and power it back on in the morning.

Geekman wrote: "And then I realised I've had it 'on' and top-up recharging repeatedly for *ages*. For Possibly weeks on-end. I never power it down. The last time I would have power-cycled it would have been the last system update, which I couldn't recall.

.. so I powered it down overnight.
.. then back up just now.


And now the tablet battery is 100%."

Mike wrote "Good to hear your back at full power.

I cold boot mine whenever anything is acting wonky. It fixes lot's of things. "

Mule says "Thank you! You have just saved my tablet!

The exact same thing has been happening to me over the last month and I thought it was eventually going to kill it. The tablet was only recharging to 16% when I found your post - your advice worked a charm."

If this fails to solve the issue, you may need a new battery...

Won't it break?

Heat is certainly a trigger for my daughter, but she also has an autoimmune disorder which is very sensitive to temperature(weather and water). You can eliminate heat as a cause, by over the next 48hrs seeing if it makes a difference only using your tablet out of heat's way... Heat doesn't affect me with shutdowns(but then I'm from a tropical climate). Emotional stress is the trigger for any shutdowns I have. You've mentioned before that you're very sensory sensitive(to perfumes, clothing stores, vicks, particular smells etc) and that these all can bring on your partial shutdowns, so it's possible you're very reactive due to these things, where others may not be...

Last edited by Juliette on 04 Feb 2020, 8:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.

KK named it, you know .... this condition you continually struggle with ... MountainGoatitus strikes again ...

Hehe.


But heat as a cause. It is possible. Also, it seems to me that sometimes I do not realize I am getting too hot until I am too hot if that makes sense?

Yes .... many of us on the spectrum find that our internal thermostat is anything but average...so nothing unusual there...
In fact all of your senses are capable of inducing an anxiety-driven reaction if you're hyper-sensitive.
http://www.aspie-editorial.com/sensory-lane/

Had to take my socks off earlier so my blood can get to my feet. Why I sat near the heater to keep my feet warm.

That'll be your problem, right there. You took your socks off... You're hypersensitive to smell ... Explains everything!

Ha Ha. Very funny!