Quick Question... Odd Feeling...

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Sometimes I get an odd feeling where I suddenly cant tell my left from my right and other things like that. Te feeling may not last for that long and it is probably happening when I am in the frines of a partial shutdown.
Today, I was walking down a street back towards the car when I almoat forgot how to walk. My body was still moving but if I didn't think quick I would be in a mess. I have had it before quite a few times in the past. I have to manually and suddenly recap on my senses of which leg is forward and how to move it and then I am fine again. Is like my mind, for just a moment forgets.
A similar feeling I get with my arms. Is like I have a mild cramp feeling inbetween them and somehow I have to work out which arm is which. It doesn't take long. A fraction of a second to work it out... Also lately... The last year or two....maybe three..... If I go to try to pick up money as in coins out my wallet, and I can't seem to make my fingers work. My Mum also gets this. Like I will see a 20p but I can't get it... I have to tip all my money out and let those in the shop grab it if I can't get it. Yet I only get it now and then. Most of the time I'm fine.
Somehow it also effects my balance and my perception of how close I am to the left or right of things.. I don't know what it is. With my hands my strength to grip goes. I need to use scissors to open packets etc... I can't put bicycle tyres on rims like I have always done. I have naturally had strong hands to so this after years of doing it. It is not that the strength is not there. It is more I can't seem to access it when it happens. I am inclined to drop things when this happens and I may not realize I have dropped something until I hear it crash on the floor, so I tend to need to support a cup from the bottom rather then rely on my grasp with the handle.

Any ideas as to what it is? I did once enquire with my doctor but as at the time I was able to grasp her hands ok (Even though my grasp was nothing as good as it used to be) she seemed happy, though she did check for something.. I can't remember what. Was a year ago or more.

As I write this I keep stopping to put letters in where I have missed them in words. It could be this tablet though, but it could be my thinking.... I often type entirely the wrong letter which is no where near the intended letter. I have done this all my life with handwriting. I will often write wrong letters or more often, I will write the correct letters in the wrongorder at the end of a word. Ok, this can happen in typing but handwriting? Haha! What's my brain doing! Hahaha! I have to laugh.

Anyway. Anybody else get the same. Has it anything to do with autism or is it something else? Is all I wrote a similar thing but in different ways or are there several things going on? Could it just be stress or anxiety etc? Any thoughts? Some sort of mild poisioning maybe?

Happens to me if I'm momentarily overwhelmed, confused or distracted.
Doesn't matter what mood or state of mind in my case, it just comes and goes. Not sure how often, could've been more often than I can imagine. All I know was that it's random and it's annoying.

To me it's more of losing this delicate balance, momentum or some mental hold for a moment.. Or some weird overlapping mental layer, it could be intrusive thoughts or some ill-timed thinking.
How I may or may not recover right after depends on my current state of mind, overall something to do with my working memory.


There was a topic about this at least once. I don't know where it is.
.. And I don't know the term for it.

I won't be surprised if it's commonly tied or related to stress, certain mental health issues or AD(H)D.

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I'm glad it is not just me who has it. (I am not saying I am glad you have it as I would prefer you to be healed from it... I am saying I am glad it is not just me as I was thinking there is something wrong with me!).

Random senses or faculties usually take a dive for me, usually vestibular.

This may be an Aspie condition or it may be something else. The thing that comes to mind is a condition called cataplexy. Cataplexy is a sudden and transient episode of muscle weakness accompanied by full conscious awareness, typically triggered by emotions such as laughing, crying, or terror.

Essentially when we sleep our bodies passes through several different stages. One of these stages is called REM sleep. In REM sleep our minds automatically put our bodies into a state of paralysis. We are physically unable to move while in REM. It is during this stage of sleep that we dream. And without being in paralysis we might inadvertently act out our dreams and tear up our bedroom and injure anyone close by. But in some individuals an anomaly in this mechanism can produce another set of problems. We can become paralyzed during the daytime while wide awake. This condition is generally given the name narcolepsy, which is a sleep disorder characterized by excessive sleepiness, sleep paralysis, hallucinations, and in some cases episodes of cataplexy (partial or total loss of muscle control, often triggered by a strong emotion such as laughter).

I don't think it is triggered by an emotion in my case. Is interesting to learn about what you say. You are an expert I think.

I get that sometimes, but I always chalked it up to an anxiety symptom. Maybe it's more I have anxiety about if it will happen...

Not anxiety in my case, yet it does more often if I'm in my less ideal states.


It's some weird mental overlap and working memory, momentarily forgetting. Like, hmmm...

Thinking the very word to write and the very next one at the same time, and ended up writting words that are written later instead of the right ones if not writing an entirely different word. If not words, letters.
Even my own name. It's a waste of correction tape in my case.

Or worse, intended to say a certain word.. Only to spout out wrong ones.
Not synonyms and finding the right words, but words that are being literally thought about in real time while speaking: that includes possibilities that may or may not happen and things that are completely irrelevant.
Now imagine you get to question just because you spouted out some random word in a sentence that it supposed to keep in your head.

Or going to any intended destination. Despite knowing where to going and done it a lot of times; suddenly, forgot which is left and right, along with the directions to go to.
Even I'm not lost, but briefly confused, contemplating where and what I'm doing again. Then I'll recall it again, hopefully it's still on the right course. It happens more often if I got more than one destination in mind. It was a waste of time.

Even emotions. One moment I'm very comfortable, then suddenly I felt like this is foreign like sensation... As if I forgot what home felt like and things felt like some weird blank.
It's close to awkward and foreign, as if I'm just some visitor. Even if my rational mind and memory says this is my house, this is my room, they are my family I've been living my whole life.

It is also the very source of reason why I get to act clumsily and fail a lot of times. That includes dropping or breaking things. Or misplacing steps.
More so if I got stuck and not able to recover from it.





"Momentarily forgetting". That's just the closest term and description I have for it.
No matter how consistent practice, no matter the priority, no matter how known it is by the heart.

Whatever this is, this just keeps happening in real time.
No matter what state of mind, no matter the environment, no matter the activity, no matter the energy level...
I've yet to figure this one out myself.

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Edna has a better description. Actually more intense then I have it. I have it on the fringes compared to you Edna, and your description is spot on.
Sleeping dissorder... While I have had the occasional sleep apnia and things like that, it is not the same.

Another potential explanation for sudden confusion is sometimes called delirium.

Symptoms may vary but this is a list of a few:

* Struggle to focus
* Seem groggy, like they can’t wake up all the way
* Mumble or say things that don’t make sense
* Not recognize you or know where they are
* Get worked up and upset for no reason
* See things that aren’t real

These symptoms will start suddenly. They may come and go or steadily get worse later in the day.

The following are a list of potential causes:

* Alcohol or drug abuse
* Carbon monoxide poisoning
* Very low amounts of sodium and calcium in your body
* Diabetes (especially low blood sugar or low insulin levels)
* Infections anywhere in the body (including the brain, lungs, and urinary tract). This is especially common for older people.
* Medications (including drugs for pain, sleep, anxiety, depression, allergies, and asthma)
* Pain (especially when a person gets too little or too much treatment)
* Parkinson’s disease
* Seizures
* Strokes or “mini-strokes” (TIAs)
* Other issues, like cancer and problems with the heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, and thyroid

Source: Conditions That Cause Sudden Confusion

You may need to see a doctor. It’s not normal, whether a person is young or old. Once you can figure out and treat the underlying cause, the confusion usually goes away.

Another article says:

One in four children with an Autism Spectrum Disorders will develop seizures. These may not necessarily begin in early childhood, but can start as late as adolescence. Seizures are caused by abnormal electrical activity in the brain and are a common comborbid disorder with autism and Asperger's syndrome. There is usually a temporary period of unconsciousness, a body convulsion, unusual movements, or staring spells. Sometimes a contributing factor is a lack of sleep or a high fever.

There are two major types of seizures. The first type, a general seizure, begins on both sides of the brain. Full convulsions or brief staring episodes are often the result. The second type, known as a partial seizure, originates in one region of the brain. In a simple partial seizure, the seizure related brain messages remain localized so that one experiences a feeling, sensation, movement, or other symptom without any change in the level of awareness. Some may suddenly become confused, fumble, wander or repeat inappropriate words or phrases.

Source: SEIZURES, EPILEPSY AND AUTISM