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Do you hate waiting?

QueenOfFrance87

QueenOfFrance87

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For the most part, I can put up with waiting as long as something doesn't take too long. But if I have to wait longer (i.e. at least 30 minutes), I tend to be restless. I can't stay still, I fidget a lot, and I have thoughts of rushing everyone else to get what I want. I also complain and raise my voice slightly.

So what are your thoughts on waiting? Do you not like it, or mind it, or do you think of it and say, "Meh"?
 
I cannot stand waiting for a friend that's late. I don't have any trouble waiting for an appointment though, which kind of freaks people out. I once spent two hours waiting in my supervisor's office because we had an appointment, only to find out he had called in sick that morning. Now I wait 15 minutes tops before I politely inform if there might have been a miscommunication.
 
everything i do is controlled panic and autism and now connected to unbalanced hormone levels
also in my judeo Christian beliefs that IM not perfect and that i must obey if i love Yeshua(Jesus) truly but its still a war against autism
 
Waiting drives me crazy. I know sometimes a person being late is out of someone control. But someone who late on a regular basis is ridiculous.
 
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QueenOfFrance87 said:
For the most part, I can put up with waiting as long as something doesn't take too long. But if I have to wait longer (i.e. at least 30 minutes), I tend to be restless. I can't stay still, I fidget a lot, and I have thoughts of rushing everyone else to get what I want. I also complain and raise my voice slightly.

So what are your thoughts on waiting? Do you not like it, or mind it, or do you think of it and say, "Meh"?
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i dislike someone telling me something will happen IM too anxious now produced by past incidents to like waiting but it helps that i dislike panic attacks and pain even more
 
I hate waiting and if someone says that they are going to be arriving at a certain time and they do not arrive at that time, even if it is one minute late, I can feel myself get agitated, but I never say anything, because I know that I am the one who should change my attitude, really.

I hate waiting in a line to be served and especially in France ( where I live; not French), because they seem to chat about mundane things and I get very uncomfortable and have at times, walked out of the shop.

Hate waiting to see a dr and so, do all I can to not be in that situation.
 
I am exactly as described in the OP! I'm also always early everywhere, because I would prefer that than potentially be late.
 
i can wait if the duration of my wait is exactly defined,
i'd rather have someone say 'it will arrive in two weeks' than say 'it will arrive tomorrow' 14 times, i don't like open-ended
 
I'm usually pretty patient, I can wait for hours without complaining. Don't know why, I just kind of zone out the whole time.
 
Now that I have my iPad... no. I never run out of something to read!

I remember I was reading this big thick book and realized like a third of it was footnotes and citations... and I was stuck.

Not anymore :)
 
Yes!

If there are several food trucks in a row I will most likely choose the one with the shortest lineup, depending on what kind of food it is of course...

At a restaurant I will most likely avoid the one with a huge lineup, I have a Sunday morning ritual of buying breakfast and reading the paper, recently I went to one that had a huge lineup (those super popular restaurants everyone wants to go to), I quickly moved on... Any greasy spoon breakfast places I go to have no lineups, just walk in and sit down...

Unless it's absolutely necessary I just don't like waiting in any sort of line that is too long.
 
I hate waiting. I too cannot sit still and I fidget a lot, especially whenever I'm bored. I have very little patience within me in general, like whenever a season has ended for a show - waiting a whole YEAR for it to start again is just so unsettling. I can't even stand waiting an entire week to see the next new episode of a show. Many things are worth waiting for, naturally - but it can get intense with such a short fuse of patience, for someone like myself. The worst times to have to sit and wait are doctor appointments, it just prolongs all the nervousness and I feel like I'm inches away from snapping.

With that said, I do admit that whenever I anticipate something bad happening but it's in the LONG RUN, I actually want the wait to be prolonged; want to enjoy as much life as I can before "doomsday". One condition, though - this cannot be something that can happen any moment (imagine just how much of an anxiety feeder this is, when it can happen at any moment). Any moment is always short run, because it may happen during the next microsecond. It has to be known that this is gonna happen in the long run - for example let's say, in 3 weeks. Thus, I enjoy waiting those 3 weeks knowing that "doomsday" will not arrive during that time frame, and try to enjoy life as much as I can (considering, as I'm not much of a happy person).
 
Tyrantus1212 said:
With that said, I do admit that whenever I anticipate something bad happening but it's in the LONG RUN, I actually want the wait to be prolonged; want to enjoy as much life as I can before "doomsday".
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This is exactly how I have lived my life also. I've had several things I really dread, like surgeries for example, and I can sort of shove them to the back burner until the very last minute because I don't want the constant anxiety in the mean time. But, when it is time to go into the OR, oh boy, I fall apart. Shaking, crying, like in shock.

Other things in everyday life I just say Meh. I too have a way of zoning out in a waiting situation. I fidget, but, using a fidget item helps keep me zoned out.
 
do you think a lot of people on the autism spectrum have adhd it never occurred to me that i might
QueenOfFrance87 said:
For the most part, I can put up with waiting as long as something doesn't take too long. But if I have to wait longer (i.e. at least 30 minutes), I tend to be restless. I can't stay still, I fidget a lot, and I have thoughts of rushing everyone else to get what I want. I also complain and raise my voice slightly.

So what are your thoughts on waiting? Do you not like it, or mind it, or do you think of it and say, "Meh"?
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Hate, hate, hate it. Any waiting. If the subway/tube train flashes up as more than 5 minutes I start to get angry, let alone 8 hour stints in hospital waiting rooms. I live in headphones and am surgically attached to my phone to try and distract myself!
 
In general, yes. It's just plain annoying. The worst perhaps when I see patrons abusing express checkout stations at the store. There I am holding a scant few items while some jerk in front of me has a cart full of groceries far beyond the minimum. :mad:

However....on occasion if it is clearly a means to an important end then it may well be worth the wait. ;)

Though worse is something I'm waiting on right now and have been for more than six weeks. A situation where I'm not entirely sure there is a resolve. Very, very frustrating when I have little to no control over things, entirely dependent on other parties. To have to wonder if I'm waiting in vain for something. Arrrrrgh! :eek:
 
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