Mental Exhaustion

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I once had to spend 3 hours phoning hotel after hotel to try and find a place to stay for some survey jobs i had to do. After i was done and finally found a hotel room, i went home and to bed because i felt tired.
Is this and example of mental exhaustion? Has anybody else experienced this in a similar way?

I hate having to phone people and developed phone phobia for years after trying to do a telephone sales job in my early twenties. I try to do all of my business through email unless I really have to call someone, and it usually makes me anxious beforehand.

Both myself and my AS husband can't always hear people clearly on the phone. We have to strain to make out words which I why I think it is so exhausting. If the TV is on in the background or someone is talking, then I can't hear anything at all. Open plan offices used to be a nightmare.

However if I'm on Skype using headphones and can hear them in both ears then I have no problem making out what they are saying. Same with radio shows. I can hear the other studios or phone in callers as I wear professional over the ear headphones.

I think it down to the way some of us process audio inputs. It can take a lot of mental energy to separate out the different audio channels and is really tiring.

Me too, and I've gone through some embarrassing moments because of it. Phone conversations, and most social interactions leave me feeling a bit "spent".

I used to have mental systems crashes - the load on the brain of trying to relate to people using AS tendency logic and analyising is huge - fortunately I am out of AS now - http://unlearningasperger.blogspot.com/ best wishes, JC

Ok this will sound weird I know but its true about me. As an autistic man I must script the appropriate behaviors and responses internally before I present them to the typical world. Once scripted I must develop a presentation scheme that blends with the context occuring in my life in real time. This scripting of my actions to meet typical realities demands is a painfully difficult extremely tiring series of internal processes I must do in real time. Its like being a Wolf and having to chase your own tail for a few minutes while you configure and load the scripts needed to dail the phone, talk to the people, modulate your voice in socially acceptable ways, remember all the human plesantries and rituals, remember and pursue your goal to the end, reach the meeting of the minds with the service rep required to form a legal contract, actively deflect all the flotsom of added services, advertisments and other inducements being thrown at you to avoid unwanted goods or services. Spend a few hours doing all these things while at the same time managing all your autism inspired challenges and you betcha yeah baby I am one tired old gray wolf after doing these scads of difficult socially complex things NT's think are easy as catching a breeze. Autistic's especially those of us who are successful have almost forgotten the whole infrastructure of scripts we use to get through a day without a meltdown so we wonder why doing the least little thing leaves us dog tired. In my case I am left Wolf tired after work. I am an IT specialist very little heavy lifting or physical labor but I get home each day drained of energy. Go figure!

I am easily mentally fatigued...I can only go for so long at something before my thinking gets blurry and increasingly confused.
I haven't in a while...but I used to conduct screen printing workshops....and I am mentally unable to pace myself...I am so overwhealmed in the conveying of information on how to screen print that I go into sensory overload...then by the end of the class I am completely drained...towards the end of the class my ability to speak linear sentences declines...my motor skills get jerkier and jerkier...and then slump....that's my day.....

i really can't hold conversations with people I am unfamiliar with for very long. I find them mentally exhausting...noone ever expects to hold a conversation with me for very long. I can only string a few ideas together before mental snags, jumbles, and repetitions start.