Question about asperger

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Can anybody advice me if people with asperger may have difficulties recognizing and noticing things in concrate physical inviroment?

what do you mean by that?

Do you mean when you are trying to find something and cant,even though it is right in front of you?If so,I am aspie and it happens all the time to me.Maybe it is related to "not seeing the forest for the trees...ie...focused on individual trees instead of getting the big picture of the whole room".....However,it is common enough to all people that there is actually an expression for it....."If it was a snake ,it would have bit ya".It also happens to my boyfriend constantly,he is worse then I am and it is due to his MS.So it can be other neurological factors,even age related.

Often I will check my back-pack several times looking for something and find it on my 2 or 3 try....I blame it on the little fairies who take and then replace things.They have an odd sense of humor....sneaky faries.

Forgot to mention....this has been life long for me and often got me in trouble as a kid.(couldnt find my shoes for church or my combor books or homework before school.The only remedy is to ..."have a place for everything and everything in it's place"...however,that isnt easy to accomplish for an aspie with executive function disorder who cant figure out "how" to begin organizing everything.....Do the scissors go in the drawer for sticking and unsticking things...(tape,glue,tacks,nails,string,Goo gone,stapler,unstapler) or the drawer for sewing and crafts?That can stump me for hours....until I go buy scissors for each.

oh thank you! I didn't know other's had that issue too!
I can't find things when they are right in front of me. it is like I can't make myself LOOK at it, or if I actually turn my head with my hands and force my face near it I can 'see' it but I can't register what it is. Very frustrating.
The same thing happens when I read, sometimes. I can't MAKE myself read the left side of the copy. I just read the right side of the page and there is some reason I CAN'T make myself read the words on the left hand side - but a lot of times I can and don't have a problem with it.
Weird.
I also have that same issue when speaking. I can be looking right at the refridgerator, know it 's the fridge, even open it and see the food in side, but I can't for the life of me remember the NAME of the object.
Thank you for bringing up this symptom of our shared condition, Krex
Merle

what would make one persons concrete another persons concrete?

My son can remember where I set any item down, say last week, but can't see the jug of milk in the fridge when asked to do so.

Hard to say.

to Seabright , et al
I have this photographic memory, but it takes things a while to 'develop.'
Later I can remember exactly where the jug of milk was in the refridge, and continue to remember it for years and decades afterwards, especially if someone 'vivified' my memory by bringing my shortcomings to my attention.

Of course, I "know" that it makes no sense to remember it later. ( and relive my embarassment/frustration/defeat) But that is my mind understanding the consequences of what I have done, not my AS doing what it does.
Merle

Sometimes. I never seem to take everything in in one go, but if I look at a scene for a minute or so, I'll remember it forever.

Amen.

Hmm...thank you for the answeres...there was some of it what I ment...but little bit I do not know how to explain what I exactly mean...

Ah yes, modern faries. They can get really annoying, those cheeky little buggers. The one I hate most is the wire goblin (tangles up the wires at the back of your computer when you're not looking).

As for not registering things, I somethings, even often, have that problem. I think nearly everyone can have this problem (we all lose the remote).

And the original question, if you're talking about changes in a familiar environment, it depends on how severe the change is. If it's a street with a concrete wall (just an example, not just because you said concrete) that has millions of tags on it, yet hasn't been tagged for years, and one is added, then it probably wouldn't be noticed. However, if the traffic lights were changed, it'd be more noticeable. I guess the feeling would be that, if it were a fish tank, it'd be like changing the water.

Did that make sense?