It’s funny how things click into place sometimes, isn’t it? With me it was seeing that my emotional breakdowns, which happen suddenly based on well defined stressors were essentially what others with Asperger’s class as Meltdowns.

Once I’d figured that out, it was a surprisingly easy job to figure out that ultimately slow-burn high-stress at work essentially lead to the same sort of “snap” feeling in me, and that my inappropriate use of email was acting as an expression of release.

But if you’d asked me about this a week ago, I wouldn’t have seen the connection at all.

Writing the above article yesterday really helped. In the end I never reached the actual point of meltdown, and I actually got quite a lot done at work. In my pre-writing days I’d have got nothing constructive done all day, and would likely have melted down in one way or another.

This is another topic that’s dominated by the stereotypes of people injuring themselves, hiding under tables, etc. It isn’t that bad for everybody, but we still need to learn to recognize the problem and find ways to cope.