What are things that stress you out, that don’t stress neurotypical people out?
A few examples of things that cause me anxiety and distress, but everyone else thinks is me being melodramatic :
- I work from home full time and permanently - owing to long standing clinical depression and a lifetime of anxiety.
I have chronic insomnia; and get to sleep at around 3-5am daily. I HATE being woken up by onsite construction work. They have been here for 2 years and I’m woken up at 7am everyday by the sound of a chain saw, daily after 2-3 hours of sleep. This lasts all day. It has massively effected my quality of life, since I can’t rouse naturally nor have a decent length of sleep. When I’ve complained about this, the managing agent treats it like I’m being really over the top/ silly in complaint.
Finding strength to run errands; and engage basic tasks. I’ll often chicken out and postpone, for days that turn into weeks that can even turn into months.
Would be curious to hear your comparators …