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wblastyn
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08 Jun 2014, 9:24 pm

Does anyone else find they make lots of silly mistakes under certain conditions?

It happens with me if my routine gets disrupted. Like I'll have a routine in work, but if a manager comes along and asks me to do something else, I find it hard to shift focus from the previous routine to a new one, and make mistakes.

It also happens if I'm dealing with people. Just having them standing there watching me is enough to make me make mistakes. I think it's because I feel like I have to hurry up or they'll get angry that I'm taking too long.

If I'm left to get on with my own devices, and allowed to keep to my routine, I'm usually ok. But I get down about it sometimes because I think I make more mistakes than most people, but according to some (e.g. Danish IT company, Specialisterne), people with AS are supposed to be very accurate.



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08 Jun 2014, 11:31 pm

I was very forgetful on my other job because of interruptions of stopping what I was doing to do something else. I swore my memory was bad and it felt like I was doing drugs. I even tried to clean the bathrooms in a different order than I did it in and I messed up too so I prefer to do it the same way I was taught to do it in. Also when I moved to daytime at my old job, I saw I was a lot more functional. It was more routine and had less interruptions, barely any because it was all cleaning rooms and guests were checked out and not checked in yet so they wouldn't be asking for stuff. My office clerk couldn't be bothered to remind me and he claimed he was too busy to do it.


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08 Jun 2014, 11:49 pm

I often put things away wrong in the kitchen or pour something in the wrong container if I'm not paying attention.

Recently I brought out the milk and had a glass while I was getting the coffeemaker ready, and I almost poured in milk instead of water.



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09 Jun 2014, 4:26 am

Yes, I do this a lot too. I remember saddling a horse once when I was being watched because I was being watched I was nervous without knowing how nervous I was and I did not even realize that I put the saddle on backwards. I have even had trouble putting my ski boots on if someone is watching. That is pretty bad.


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09 Jun 2014, 11:26 am

Yes - If my mind is elsewhere and not on what is going on around me I make no end of silly mistakes. Some have been quite funny, and embarassing too.


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09 Jun 2014, 1:39 pm

Fancy you are writing this. Precisely the same thing happened to me yesterday when a light bulb needed unscrewing and I happened to be in the middle of a different task and I couldn't for the life of me put my mind into this simple task.
Had I been already in the room I would have found all ways to perform it (admittedly it was a bit stiff and I feared the glass was going to smash into pieces) :roll:



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09 Jun 2014, 7:28 pm

So is this something that's common to all people with AS? I'm worried only certain people with AS are accurate, and my silly mistakes are a sign that I'm not one of them.



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10 Jun 2014, 12:41 am

My silly mistakes = Frustrating


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10 Jun 2014, 3:25 pm

I can go either way, I can be very detail-oriented and accurate about details, but at the same time miss something that is really obvious.



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10 Jun 2014, 6:38 pm

i hate makng mistakes, they dont feel silly to me.

my sister and my mom would REALLY yell at me when i made a mistake, even if it was forgetting what someone said, to this day i meltdown when i make a mistake.


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