As a 37 year old High Functioning Autistic cunt, I'm finally learning some simple things that everyone else has been aware of their whole lives. Even if it is only an hour or so per day, we need to take breaks from the mental exhaustion. Personally, I like to play intense online first person shooters. Yeah, I know, seems like a counter productive choice but I can do it all day and possibly in my sleep. Sometimes, when you least expect it - you'll get clarity/epiphanies which one would never have come up with from intense DIGGING and physical/mental exhaustion [nourishment is key also. 3 days without red meat and I'm useless even in basic conversation]. We all hit the wall sometimes. Know your own minds/bodies and treat them with the respect they deserve. When I'm not here at GA, I'm hard at it being the best single father of two girls with disabilities that I can be. The rest of my time is spent digging, pondering, learning. We are not machines. We are only human. Know when to push the screen aside for a bit and take 5 [or 17]. We are no good to anyone at our worst. Stand fast. WWG1........... you know the rest ;)
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I am quite similar and I bounce around with different types of activities on purpose.
I own 3 companies, have almost 40 employees and have just recently learned that I am happiest and most productive when I an deeply involved in a task for 90-120 minutes and then go to something that requires a totally different thought pattern (that I may be needing to do just as badly) for 30-90 minutes.
If I just go about hammering the same subject all day long, I see a demonstrable decline about 5-6 hours in and seeing as I am an early riser, that puts me petering out around lunch time, mentally.
I have even picked up messing with our photography equipment, and blogging, as well, for content creation. I never imagined myself 'a fishing/hunting all sports playing MAN' picking up a camera and learning about photography and the science and data behind the art, but who knows where different things take you.
Godspeed.