D you get bored easily?

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As in TOO easily and become depressed if you don't have daily excitement? As in "I can't do my job b/c it's monotonous" and so you feel more and more depressed?


Also, do you ever feel you're having trouble with identifying your aim in life?

No.

I don't get bored.

No. I don't get bored easily. I am amused/fascinated/entranced by common things, and I could spend all day in my own thoughts, doing absolutely nothing. Boredom is not even on my radar. I actually spend a good portion of my time trying to AVOID daily excitement. Most of the time I am anxious, easily flustered, slightly paranoid... and sometimes the slightest upset may cause me to meltdown. I SEEK OUT monotonous activities sometimes. The mechanical repetition of certain things is calming and reassuring to me. Almost zen-like.

I get overwhelmed and depressed if I am trapped in an exciting or unpredictable environment for too long.


YES. I have felt this way for the last 15 years or so. I am just now starting to identify my aim in life. The problem is, I am very far removed from having the means to achieve it... directly because of the past years of aimless wandering and the effects it has had.
My current aim in life is to reconcile how AS fits in with it, and pursue a career that closely matches my interests. I've been told for too long that my interests weren't viable career paths, and that I should force myself into some "real-job".... That got me nowhere. It actually sent me backwards considerably. I am finally starting to listen to myself.

I don't get bored if the time is mine and I can do whatever I want. Boredom for me comes when I am at work and I have to wait for something before I can do my job.

I know what my aim in life is. I just don't know how I am going to get there.

Yes. Actually I think it's the depression that makes me become bored rather than being the other way around. Depression makes me lose energy so that it's hard to find excitement in anything. It's really easy to get cause and effect mixed up when you're depressed though. I used to think it was the boredom making me depressed but it's actually the depression making me bored.

Last edited by marshall on 19 Jan 2009, 9:25 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Oh yes. I get bored quite easily.

Yes I get bored easy. Somedays nothing can entertain me.
Not an issue at work though, I don't have a boring job.

Well, this one's multi-faced:
* Yes, I have these "I can't do that job because it's too monotonous". Actually, reiterations craze me out.
* On a new job, I dig deeply into the task(s) at hand, so I'll fully comprehend them. Once I do there's no fun of learning/figuring out left anymore. So, here too, it bores me off.
* And on the single task's level, as soon as I feel I comprehended the core issues and the remainder would be pure application of the just learnt, again, it bores me off.

Yes, I do, and I can completely identify with your post, and with Marshall's. I think that due to not identifying a goal in life, and striving toward it- call it laziness- I've backed myself into a boring life with limited opportunities for self-expression or personal enrichment. A lesson- the laziest person often ends up with the hardest job.

there is no need to even ask.

I get bored easily if I have to wait around without something to do (especially if I am physically uncomfortable), or do something I really do not want to do.

I was much more bored as a child because I was always having to do things I did not want, and because children can often be made to wait around a bit while adults do their thing (like at the bank) and are not always allowed to take their stuff with them (I am fine waiting around if I have a book or something else to read).

I've also realized this. You see, feel, and hear nothing but the VOID (except it's the bad kind)

I think my problem is that those long term goals always seem way too nebulous to generate any kind of positive stimulus in my mind. Not only is the means to obtain them uncertain. That's bad enough, but there's uncertainty even as to whether the chosen goals will ever be truly fulfilling. It's hard to push forward when you can't see what you're moving towards. It's like walking blindfolded. Most things I've accomplished in life have been because other's pushed me. Yet I'm not really lazy in the normal sense. I'm never content with mediocrity in anything. In fact it's the opposite, I have to invest in everything I do at full throttle. Otherwise I can't do anything. That's why it's so hard to commit to goals. It's crazy.

everybody gets bored on the job sometimes. Work in a department with enough layoffs, and you won't have time to be bored...

Same here. I was going to ask if it were an autistic thing or not. It bothers me when people complain that they're bored. I spent an hour today crawling around on the bathroom floor after my shower exploring the room. There's just too many things like that and too many things to think about to get bored.

Yes I sometimes get bored easily. However I have a short attention span for some activities. Some things I can sit and keep interested. Like I don't get bored in karate or when watching my fave shows.