Both, according to signals from surroundings. How the fuck should I know what’s expected of me?
And then, they have the audacity to be mad at me for saying things you’re not supposed to. My point exactly, they do the same every single day.
Yeah, but you aren’t doing your angry outbursts the right way.
I’m always calm, even when dying inside. Being in pain does not work for medical personnel with my reaction. It’s not expected for patients to calmly state its unbearable (feeling close relation to Spock in SNW here).
Bipolar is also a neurodivergent thing, so yeah, be me: overreacting to everything, which is pretty exhausting, then spending days in bed to recover.
Uh. Uhhh…
I underreact pretty much everything. Many people think it’s weird but it’s me and I’m not going to mask it. 🤷
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Because of the ADD my big challenge is emotional regulation so it’s less that I overreact and more that I spiral. Getting better with age. Anyone who needs advice. Exercise. It’s not a cure but it helps to even out the peaks and valleys.
Underreact for sure. I’m basically a Vulcan unless I’m hamming up a reaction for entertainment value.
A few weeks ago, we were sat in the office with one of our team leads (he’s cool and we’re on good terms) and then a colleague and me (both deep on the autism spectrum).
And our team lead told us that he found a place where we could go to play around with underwater robots for a day and that he was looking into booking that. He expected us to get excited and both of us were doing our best to look as excited as possible, but he was still left confused and almost hurt, because he expected a much stronger response. 🫠
My wife gets mad that I talk louder when I get excited about something. It’s really annoying
I’ve lived next to a volcano, I’ve experienced poverty, I’ve seen crimes, my house got flooded, I’ve seen corruption; I have pretty much under reaction to many things.
