| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
sketches
Pileated woodpecker
Joined: Mar 25, 2009
Posts: 185
Location: Everywhere you want to be
|
 Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 11:33 pm Post subject: Are repetitive tasks easy for you? |
 |
|
I'm curious if performing a repetitive task is especially easy for people with Asperger's. I know I can do them very well and effectively, as soon as I know the process. At my job, I mostly get assigned to do the over-and-over tasks that everyone else complains about. I think it's something I don't need to think about and I never get bored doing. Is this just me? Is there a name for this trait?
Do you have a point when doing a repetitive task just unbearable? Or can you do a process forever and ever?
Thanks in advance for the responses!
Edit: People with Autism may answer this, too; however, I am mainly seeking AS answers. |
|
| Back to top |
|
CockneyRebel
Mick Avory, ISFJ Sweet Pea
Joined: Jul 18, 2004
Age: 35
Posts: 30966
Location: Somewhere between 1964 and 1984, on any given day.
|
| Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 11:51 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I find that repetitive tasks are very easy to do. I can do them all day, if I was given the chance. That's the reason that I love my current job.
_________________
"The darling, unworldly Mick Avory with hands like shovels, who wouldn't dare choose to hurt a soul"
-Ray Davies 1964
<---This is how I actually look
The modern world does not phase me. |
|
| Back to top |
|
pensieve
Autist and Artist
Joined: Nov 19, 2008
Age: 24
Posts: 3162
Location: NSW, Australia
|
|
| Back to top |
|
john_johnson
Butterfly
Joined: Jan 28, 2010
Age: 24
Posts: 9
|
| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:10 am Post subject: |
|
|
| I find repetitive tasks to be enjoyable. I used to work at a chicken processing plant, and it required me to work on a production line. Everyone always wanted to rotate throughout the day and do different jobs to fight the boredom, but I was perfectly happy to stay at one spot all day every day. |
|
| Back to top |
|
CowboyFromHell
Phoenix
Joined: Dec 23, 2007
Age: 20
Posts: 823
Location: Surprise, Arizona
|
| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:29 am Post subject: |
|
|
| john_johnson wrote: | | I find repetitive tasks to be enjoyable. I used to work at a chicken processing plant, and it required me to work on a production line. Everyone always wanted to rotate throughout the day and do different jobs to fight the boredom, but I was perfectly happy to stay at one spot all day every day. |
I couldn't be on a production line, it would kill me. I'm a night stocker, and stocking shelves is very repetitive, but there's also a challenge in it. There are many different items to throw on the shelves, and you have to get things on the shelf neatly. I also have to remember where stuff is... all this while trying to get stuff done quickly enough with a quota to meet. All I can say is I love my job, it's very fun.
_________________
www.Last.fm/user/BadMoonReaper
Download Chris Singleton's acclaimed album 'Twisted City' entirely free and legally at http://www.singletonmusic.com/free/?Ryan-Micke |
|
| Back to top |
|
Meadow
Phoenix
Joined: Dec 04, 2009
Posts: 1358
Location: New York
|
| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:01 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Repetitive tasks seem to stress me quite a bit so I'd have to say NO. I prefer to be learning something new all the time and doing different things, as well. I could never work on an assembly line. I think I would have a nervous break rather quickly. My mind needs to engage in something creative or educational. Anything repetitive kills me. |
|
| Back to top |
|
aspiegirl2
Aurtistic Rainwoman
Joined: Feb 24, 2005
Age: 21
Posts: 1295
Location: Washington, USA
|
| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:41 am Post subject: |
|
|
I can definitely do repetitive tasks longer than others. There will be a point when I need to take a break, but I typically like those kinds of jobs. Sometimes it gives me a sense of "alone time", just thinking of things while being productive. It just somehow feels good to me. It's kind of weird that sometimes I have trouble paying attention, but I could do some tasks over and over again for long periods of time.
_________________
I am a 20 year old woman who lives in Washington State and was diagnosed with Asperger's at 9. I am a Psychology major at my university and I intend to help people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders when I get older. I also happen to be a Christian. |
|
| Back to top |
|
Blindspot149
Phoenix
Joined: Oct 08, 2009
Posts: 1174
Location: Aspergers
|
| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:52 am Post subject: |
|
|
Very easy.
_________________
Now then, tell me. What did Miggs say to you? Multiple Miggs in the next cell. He hissed at you. What did he say?
|
|
| Back to top |
|
chaotik_lord
Pileated woodpecker
Joined: Mar 18, 2009
Age: 26
Posts: 197
|
| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:43 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Well-defined and familiar is great, but I prefer a little complexity in the repetition. I have panic attacks doing line work in a factory, mostly because I feel pressure and become very aware of my surroundings. But I love things like counting, stocking, and arranging. Repetitive without being stressfully easy. |
|
| Back to top |
|
Brittany2907
Self-Proclaimed Animal Lover
Joined: Jun 10, 2007
Age: 18
Posts: 4719
Location: New Zealand
|
| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:56 am Post subject: |
|
|
I find repetitive tasks easy to do once I know how to do them. However I try to avoid getting into these situations because even though I like predictability, it worsens my depression because my depression is based around how everything will always be the same - pointless. Even so, I often avoid trying new things because of the safety of predictability. Either way I'm stuck in a bad situation. Easy isn't always good and doing the hard thing wont always make things better.
Ok sorry for going off topic.
_________________
I = Vegetarian!
Animals = Friends.
My new AS Blog: http://aspergersexistence.wordpress.com/ |
|
| Back to top |
|
LuxoJr
Pileated woodpecker
Joined: Dec 03, 2009
Posts: 189
Location: California
|
| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 5:04 am Post subject: |
|
|
They are too easy.
I've found myself trying to turn every task into something repetitive.
For example, eating. I will eat certain foods in a certain order, drink water, eat foods in an order, drink, etc.
_________________
I have something no one else has: my brain. Which I use to my advantage... when advantageous. |
|
| Back to top |
|
misswoofalot
Deinonychus
Joined: Jan 13, 2009
Posts: 394
Location: London/kent UK
|
| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 7:26 am Post subject: |
|
|
I love repetitive tasks.
_________________
"dattebayo!"!!!!!! |
|
| Back to top |
|
blastoff
Snowy Owl
Joined: Aug 17, 2009
Posts: 137
|
| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 10:49 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Repetitive within reason. I can do something reasonably repetitive ("variations on a theme") probably forever. If it's *exactly* the same over and over, I'll last about three days. |
|
| Back to top |
|
irishwhistle
Phoenix
Joined: Oct 01, 2006
Age: 37
Posts: 802
|
| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:31 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Repetitive tasks, generally, are murder. I mean, there has to be something else in them that pleases me in order for me to repeat a task or activity (wink, wink, but seriously). I will say what I always do when answering such questions, though... I am undiagnosed and reasonably if not perfectly high-functioning, so really I can't say whether I am AS, eccentric, "gifted", ADHD... you get the point. Suffice it to say I share many, many AS traits and cannot stand repetitive tasks unless there is some benefit or pleasure in it or unless it is something I did wrong or imperfectly the first time and I am seeing whether I can improve or perfect it.
_________________
"Pack up my head, I'm goin' to Paris!" - P.W.
The world loves diversity... as long as it's pretty, makes them look smart and doesn't put them out in any way.
There's the road, and the road less traveled, and then there's MY road. |
|
| Back to top |
|
Meadow
Phoenix
Joined: Dec 04, 2009
Posts: 1358
Location: New York
|
| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 3:14 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Anything repetitive seems to produce intense stress for me. A lot of things do though. Talking on the phone and trying to follow a long line of verbiage makes me stress or go bonkers. I have become short these days when dealing with it. I can't seem to handle much anymore, if anything, and why I stay so long inside my little box. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
