Time management

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I have never been able to organize my time or stick to a schedual. This is one of the main things holding me back. I don't know how to change because this is all I have ever known. I really want to get organized and I enjoy making the lists but when it comes down to it I get really impulsive and just td whatever I think about at the time, if it is what I need to do or not. I seem to be really immature in the area of priorities and delayed gratifacation. I get so frustrated with myself because I know what I am supposed to be doing but I still don't do it.

Does anybody else have this problem, Or have any Idea's on what I can do to change it?

I'm right there with you. I did great with the structure of high school, but I completely fell apart in college and I have developed a really nasty procrastination habit. In fact, I have a paper due tomorrow, and I had scheduled time all throughout this weekend to work on it, and I've barely started. And here I am staying up 'til almost 2 online. Great idea, huh?

I am going to therapy, and one of the main things she wants me to do is to live by a schedule. So far I have failed, but I'm sure if I keep trying I'll get it. I will keep you posted if I have success.

I totally know what you mean. Lately I fear its holding me back too much. Im 25 and graduated with a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering 4 months ago. Im looking for a job but im too inconsistent with it for the same reasons u said. I really cant understand why I know what im supposed to do but dont do it.

I have the same problem. Sometimes I forget about time and then find out it's too late. Like right now I'm up at 3:39 am and didn't really realize it till 20 minutes ago. I should've been in bed by at least 11:00pm. I think I focus too much on things and forget about what's going on around me.

it's part of what is called executive dysfunction, which is apparently co-morbid with AS in 75% of cases.

i have it too

I don't have a problem in this department.

yeah someone tell me to do something at a certain time and i'll wait and then forget later, and then they get angry with me because I forgot to do it on time. (thats why I shouldn't cook I'd forget something because I always wait to long )

I do this all the time.
I'm no longer allowed to leave the room while cooking.
I can get so focused I'll forget about anything.
If I make an appointment that I'll need to go to that same day I have to set an alarm.

Along with lists, I also try leaving notes in other places than I normally would.
We use a dry eraser marker and write on the mirror in the bathroom. I'm always in there running my hands under the water, so I know I'll see it more often.
We also have a dry erase board in the kitchen and a calander in the office.

Then all I have to do is make sure I utilize them all....

My doctors have told me that people with AS HAVE to stick to routines and if they are not able to, they get really upset...
This is not the case with me..
For instance at my college we have to eat dinner at a set time every night (5pm, toooo bloody early), and about 5 out of 7 nights I am not hungry at the time we have to eat so just eat snacks when I want to!

Yeah. I think I have Dyscalculia actually. I have a really poor concept of time, and mathematical (complex) equations shut me right down. How time passes at rates that seem so slow at times and so fast at others perplexes me (I know it's a matter of perspective, yet still, it is confusing). And though I am actually quite good at math when I don't shut down, my mind chooses when it wants to shut down, and everything on my paper may as well be meaningless scribbles.

I have to stick to routines in the sense that if I don't, I get completely out of control and spend all day surfing on the web or playing video games. I'm sure once I establish my schedule, which I am working with my therapist to do these days, I will become attached to it, but as it is right now, it's not at all that I feel compelled to follow a schedule, it's that I cannot function or be productive without one.

Thank you for the feedback everybody. It is nice to know that I am not the only person with this problem.

How could I get information on this executive dysfuction thing.

A lot of time management problems are directly related to the ADD issues too. I am highly distractable. I can't leave the room while cooking, I have to finish one thing through until it's done or I'll skip on to something else and forget to do what I was doing. I will go to put something away and not remember why I went in to a room. Ya, I've got issues with this as well. My nearly 10 y/o AS daughter is TERRIBLE with time management. She has a list of chores she does, but she'll put them off and not realize that she's wasted so much time, then when I remind her to do chores, she freaks out and gets stressed out big time. I have to write lists for her and she crosses them off a whiteboard on our fridge now.

I am so not good with following a schedule or having my kids follow one. I can't keep track of it. LOL!