How long does it take you to switch activities when.....

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The best example of what I think the OP is alluding to is when I would talk to a teacher about fantasy football or something, or just check my fantasy football team right before class starts; and when it does, my mind feels stuck, like pushing a large boat from a dock: initially very slow and very difficult to build momentum and move on from the ff. Combine that with a difficulty in filling in the lines and recovering from a missed beat in a lecture and I would kiss the class time goodbye, I may as well not have shown up at all. I used to listen to sports radio on my iphone on my way to study, also not a good idea.

I put 30 minutes to 1 hour. but it's more complicated and varied.
I can't do too many things in one day. I feel like my brain gets scrambled when I go from one activity to the next and I have to start from scratch to remember and figure out what I need to do and I end up walking in circles doing nothing.
When I'm focusing on one thing I forget about everything else I need to do. I can do something like reading posts on WP instead of paying bills or other pertinent things because that's the first thing I think of when I wake up in the morning and then I have to rest and space out before I can focus on something else and figure out what I need to do.
It also takes me a long time to do things, like writing this post, because I'm spacey and I have to figure out what to say and how to say it.

I also can get stuck reading and researching things and I wish that was all I had to do all day.

I was lucky to have had a night shift job in which I worked alone and I stayed at that job for most of my working life so no one would find out how deficient I really am.

If someone forces me to do something very suddenly that I'm not prepared for I get very visually upset.

I often think maybe I shouldn't have internet at home....for that reason.

Is the not remembering it's possible kind of like...your brain only calls up information related to what's directly in front of you?

Yeah, pretty much. If it fades out of working memory, whoosh!--it's gone.

I've read accounts by at least one autistic who used to go hungry simply because she couldn't see the food behind a closed cupboard door and so it wasn't relevant to her that there was food there. My problems aren't that literal, but they're pretty much along the same lines.

In other news, yesterday I got stuck winding up about two hundred balls of yarn into center-pull balls for crochet. It took me six hours, I didn't stop until I ran out of yarn, and now my right arm and shoulder ache horribly.

Anybody else ever get repetitive-motion injuries from not being able to stop doing some activity over and over?