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Meltdown is what an aspie describes as what happens when we have an uber panic attack. Some of the ways I calm myself when I'm at home.

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  • Yeah, I collect and keep any toys or such that help me calm down. I wear rings on every finger when I'm in public except for my thumbs. Had a pair of Etruscan thumb rings but an old roommate stole them years ago. I twist them to calm down.

    I also have a pocket watch I play with to calm down.

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  • Thank you for the tips. Being a female teen with Aspergers makes it a real pain to deal with emotion issues. I might try just playing with toys likeI di when I was little. I still have my favorite doll, a stuffed Pikachu with one cheek. :D

  • @777Marlene oh you melt and shut down,,,jeff

  • i call it a power cut i just stare or get mad ....jeff

  • swirling color designs...i call it "therapy"....im a rocker as well.....isnt it a long strange trip...bein' an aspie.....i love you KEV, .......oh i almost forgot ....do you collect? ........boy howdy , i do

  • notch form and it just totally pisses me off......and omg, lets not mention the temptation to commit murder over a misplaced sound ....ya know i actually have two wall clocks that i try to keep about eight minutes and 45 seconds apart from each other, because the staggered tick-tock, and the different numbers on each clock somehow seem to soothe me and make me not want to kill anyone anymore, i have a handheld electric fan with glitter on the fanblades so when i turn it on it makes little

  • HECK YEH !!....and when i have meltdowns, i get that weird thing where you feel like you got an exponential case of brainfreeze...just a short period where i dont know whether to turn left, right, front., back, speak, not speak, laugh, cry or explode....then the panic attack sets in ....do you get those little jewels of brain wave motion honey?.....and dangit, sometimes they hit me when im trying to stack behave, or sort one of my illustrious junkpiles which i spent six months getting in top

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