Do you get bored?

[paulpablo]

First, how do you define "bored"? 

I always thought it was a feeling of wanting to be occupied but not having anything with which to occupy oneself and having a lack of ideas.

I cannot relate. AT ALL. I am definitely coming to terms with the fact that I am probably on the spectrum and I have no difficulty at any time either 1. Entertaining myself with internal storytelling, reliving memories, going through scenarios that may or may not happen, and general problem solving ideas to myself within my own head and 2. Bringing up an automatic feeling from within that simply answers the question: "what do I desire to do now/next?" Like the question doesn't even get a chance to be formulated or asked of myself. I just HAVE stuff I want to do. Always. I always have ideas and this feeling of what I most want to do next to occupy myself. Sometimes more than one thing fills that spot and so I have several things to choose from at any given moment.

Someone recently said to me "I'm BORED!" and it brought up again this feeling of wonder, fear, and pity for the person who would be plagued so. Are you among the unfortunate people who come by this affliction of boredom? What is bored to you? How do you cope with a head empty like that?

I define bored as having a lack of brain stimulation. 

Yeh I get bored quite easily.  I've got a very easy low skilled job where I literally could spend all day thinking thoughts and doing nothing. 

I've come up with loads of stuff to pass the time, drawing, chess, I've even brought my guitar and a skipping rope into work before.  I've developed a skill for keeping people going in conversation on the phone to me when I'm bored too.  

Self improvement is good for entertainment in total solitude but like most people I crave social stimulation.  I've always organized random competitions, races, push up competitions, I won the competition of who can bicep curl and lift overhead the watercooler bottle with one arm.  

There's definitely times when I just do pointless braindead type stuff to pass time aswell, I'm guilty of that.  Scrolling through instagram or tiktok. Computer games and so on. I mean, some might say the other stuff I mentioned is pointless and braindead but they seem slightly more productive.