You know those moments where you feel like you will go insane unless you find a new project then and there? 

Hmm, maybe you don't. 

Aspies don't relax very well.  I think that when NTs relax, they kick back, sit, and do something approaching nothing. 

Aspies can't.  We go nuts.  Now, we can do something that is fun for us.  If I were my former 8 year old self, that something would probably involving adding up columns of numbers for hours on end.

Now, however, my projects tend to involve writing in some capacity.  Either that, or music.  Unfortunately, the music building is closed on the weekends here at my school.  :(  *sadness*

2 years ago this very month (June), I took that project making energy to a new level and wrote a novella, by hand, in a month and a half that topped out at 47,000-ish words. 

I didn't really have to worry about that too much last summer, because I was working 2 different part-time jobs with a combined mass of 57 hours per week, every week.  In one of those jobs, I was the emergency back-up person for 3rd shift (11 pm - 7 am).  I worked part-time at a gas station and part-time at a graduate school as an office assistant. 

Occasionally this is what my schedule looked like:

8-12 pm - Graduate school

11-7 am - Gas station

8-12 pm Graduate school

12:25 pm - Sleep like the dead

Yikes. 

Now, this summer (notice how these problems always occur during the summer?), I'm somewhere in-between the 2 situations. I'm taking a statistics course M-R, 10 am to 12 pm, and working part-time (20 hours) at the human resources office on my campus from 1-5 pm.  So not too bad, I guess. 

It's just on the weekends that I get into trouble. 

I need the schedule that a busy semester of school imposes on me.  I go to sleep when I have a chance; I get up before first light and start going at it again.  I rarely just sit and think -- or in my case, worry.  I don't have enough energy to get so tightly wound that I give myself heartburn (like I have right now). 

Last Spring I counted how many flights of stairs I do on average and came up with 16.  On average. 

I'm thinking it's time to start that again.

And in the meantime, maybe I really will get that book written.  :)

As for the areas that I can speak with some confidence, I think back to a post that I originally posted on WP that goes something like this:

Things that I have been dxed with:

1. Depression
2. Cyclothymia
3. General Anxiety Disorder
4. Panic Disorder
5. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (atypical)
6. Agoraphobic (mild)
7. Attention Deficit Disorder
8. Hypermobility
9. Tachycardia
10. Asthma
11. Irritable Bowel Syndrome
12. Lactose Intolerance
13. Sciatica
14. Bursitis
15. Asstigmatism
16. Hyperverbal
17. Hypervigilant
18. Voluntary nygstagmus
19. Asperger's Syndrome (almost forgot that one!)

Plus I have stress induced heartburn and vertigo, lower back problems (I broke my tailbone in the 7th grade on a lake), mild paranoia, periodic insomnia, and experience musical hallucinations when I'm really tired.

Probably I also have Auditory Processing Disorder, Sensory Processing Disorder, Dysgraphia, Dyspraxia, mild dyslexia, dyscalculia, night paralysis . . . *sigh*

Gnarly, huh?  *smacks head*