I think it’s more extreme realism than nihilism which sometimes looks very similar. Also, we’re trained to people please because our realistic, direct personality can be grating for “normal” people. So we often don’t find pleasure in doing things as even fun activities done around others become draining due to masking and people pleasing.
My advice is to find other neurodivergent people to do things with and avoid people who you have to mask with when doing fun things. Then train yourself to drop some of the masks to make activities less exhausting. Once you’re able to enjoy things more, then there’s more of a “point” to doing them (i.e. fun and stress release).
That’s just one way of handling it, but it’s how I have been working on it and it has helped. But it takes years to find and trust those groups and train yourself to be yourself (alcohol helped me open up some, but definitely not recommended for everyone).
I think it’s more extreme realism than nihilism which sometimes looks very similar. Also, we’re trained to people please because our realistic, direct personality can be grating for “normal” people. So we often don’t find pleasure in doing things as even fun activities done around others become draining due to masking and people pleasing.
My advice is to find other neurodivergent people to do things with and avoid people who you have to mask with when doing fun things. Then train yourself to drop some of the masks to make activities less exhausting. Once you’re able to enjoy things more, then there’s more of a “point” to doing them (i.e. fun and stress release).
That’s just one way of handling it, but it’s how I have been working on it and it has helped. But it takes years to find and trust those groups and train yourself to be yourself (alcohol helped me open up some, but definitely not recommended for everyone).