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Do you have an 'escape'?

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I likstening to music or watching Friends or 3rd Rock From The Sun. Just something to concentrate on is good. I don't like being angry. I'm not angry much tbh. I don't like it when people are angry at me because mostly I'm just confused as to why :(
 
I've found a good one. Sitting down with chocolate milk (Galaxy) and some cookies and cry on the sofa, watching Peep Show :)
 
My escape is mostly the Internet and computer in general... I love screencapping, looking at pictures and listening to music. I also like making videos on the computer and getting totally absorbed in my project, forgetting everything else. When I can't get on the computer I go into my room and listen to music on my Sansa player, and chances are I'll start daydreaming or spacing out.
Sometimes I'll watch TV, but only if something good is on, and I'll read a book if I feel like it. One of my favorite books ever is Mandy by Julie Andrews Edwards. It's about a ten-year-old orphan named Mandy who finds a deserted cottage and makes it into a secret refuge for herself, or a place of her own as the book calls it.
Showering also provides a nice escape. I tend to take obnoxiously long showers and I like being able to hear hardly anything except the water.
 
The difficulty I find is that I've no 'real' life, as judged by most people. Yet what they call 'real' isn't any more so than what I do have. But can this even be discussed, as reasonable adults? No!
 
It seems that most recently my "escape" is shoveling snow, but that may not be my first choice. ;)

Finding a quiet spot with my MacBook and reading and posting on forums might be my first choice.
 
For me its raincoats, watching tv seriers I am very familiar with , reading about computer hardware or something that I wanna learn more of.
 
Physical escape or mental?

Mentally, I go over my favourite subjects (Forensic Science, Pigs, The Periodic Table) and just review the information which calms me down. When I was younger, I used to write it down, too. I scared the **** out of teachers sometimes, because I would just get up and run to a chalkboard if the room got too loud and just start scribbling my favourite molecular structures (DNA, Glucose, and Caffeine were probably my favourite. I made a couple of friends by showing them how to draw the structures of different illegal drugs) It really helped me to escape. I'd be in the same room but my mind would be somewhere else, where I wanted to be.

I got in trouble for that a couple of times, because a teacher might try to talk to me but I couldn't really hear them because I was so focused on what I was doing. Is anyone else like that in a panic attack? Not being able to hear other people, I mean?

My bed is between a wall with windows and my own wall of inward-facing bookshelves, both directly up against the bed, forming a tiny room. I usually wrap myself up in my blanket for comfort and hide in there. My father also owns some land, and there is a really quiet spot down in the creek where flowers are in the spring and late summer. Down there all one can hear are the honeybees and maybe a wild hog. The wind doesn't really make it down there because it's in a sort of crevice, so you can't hear wind either. It's really beautiful, even when there aren't flowers and the grass goes brown and the creek dries up, Because it is always quiet and there are always honeybees.
 
On a normal day, I go onto the internet and browse forums like this one, If I'm really exahusted I don't feel like dong much, I don't go online and I just watch some old TV series or something.
 
The more I think about it... I would almost think my life is a big escape. But it makes me wonder "what am I escaping from?" and if my answer is "life"... I suppose I have a few issues I need to resolve, lol.

But I think it's a bit of the truth though; I am convinced that life, in the way I should be living it, just isn't for me, and with at times no other perspectives I suppose holing up and doing whatever I want to do on a daily basis is how I manage my days.

The moment I am in need of an escape after a daily event, I consider it to be a toxic event to be taken out of my life, and really, if my job would be like that, 2 days, and I'd call in for indefinity sick leave... that's probably how I roll.

The problem I do face right now, is that I feel that my main way to "escape" becomes bland and I need something more... so out comes my partychest with all kinds of substances, lol.. and even that gets bland. Rinse repeat...

But I guess one of my escapes is getting into altered states
 
After a particularly rough day at work, like yesterday, i go home and put on some PJs or comfy clothes (depending on the time of day), put in headphones, and listen to music. Tune the world out for the rest of the day. I listen to music, browse around on here, read some fanfics, watch an anime or tv show, things like that. Things i like and can escape into. During a rough day at work on break i listen to music on my phone. I have headphones in my work vest all the time just for that reason, so that on breaks i can tune out for a few minutes. Its not truly a break for me unless its a break from the world, including the tv in the break room (which always seems louder than it really is if i'm overloaded) and all the people in there talking with each other or watching something on their phones.
 
My escape is my home, no sound and everything where it should be. I'll just hunker down with a whisky and a good book.

When I'm working and I need five minutes to get centred again I'll just find a quiet spot and park up, chill out and look at the view.
 
Chris said:
So, it's obvious that a lot of aspie's can have tough days, whether its down to being worn down by social activity, or getting abuse due to any vulnerable qualities AS seems to show.

After a crap day, what's your escape? What do you come home and do to cheer you up? I know for a lot of people it will be internet related - but what specifically? :)

I think having an escape is fairly important and for me, it'd be these forums, msn, facebook and a couple of other sites. :D
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I don't really do "escape" short of living in semi-isolation. I had prescription meds for that I took for a long time. Eventually I gave them up, as I no longer wanted to mentally or emotionally "dull" myself in such a way just to artificially lower my anxieties.

At best I just continue to live one day at a time...but I don't consider that any kind of real "escape" either.

I admit though, sometimes I wonder if my conscious attempt not to escape much of anything is just a different form of cutting one's self.
 
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My escape is my bed. I love my bed. It's my territory and once I'm there everyone knows to leave me alone. I often get so overwhelmed with life that I just "go to my bed". Not necessarily to sleep, but to get away from everything.
 
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