I have successfully multitasked.

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I did it, it cost me alot of $ within my college degree and it took a long time, but it was worth it........hope is rekindled.

Congratulations! What was your method?

I built up a team of people within the University of individuals who are in the know about Aspergers Syndrome. I had lots and lots of hours with a really good academic advisor in the Disability Services Office. Every state sponsored University has one. I have a good relationship with my Academic Advisor/Accomodation Coordinator as well as anAcademic Tutor and my Undergraduate Advisors to include my professors as well. But it does not end there. I also have people in the know about my disability at my job, although they do not understand how it works. Understanding how it works is my job.

You basically have to direct them as to the nature of your disability and what you will need from them. My accommodation coordinator has currently 9 or 10 others with Asperger Syndrome and he has guided one to be a store manager at a grocery while she sells exotic birds for thousands of dollars.


My method was I built up a team of people whose job it is is to guide an individual to success that are in the know. I did most of the work, they advised me where to take the steps and how to walk. If that makes any sense to you. I wish I had more time to go into detail, I really do but right now I have studying to do.

For me I can't technically multitask the way NT's do it. I am a computer systems analyst with the government. Much of my job involves multitasking. I was having a devil of a time multitasking because; I was trying to do it the way NT's do it. I just don't have the cognitive bandwidth to multitask the way NT's do it. I had to figure out a uniquely autistic way to make my own multitasking system. Ok NT's do what I call true multitasking. They can simultanously manage two or more seperate throught action streams dividing their attention to each in the proportion needed at any given time. I could not multitask in the NT fashion to save my gay autistic life.

Being autistic I have a one track mind meaning I can focus and manage only one thing at a time. If I try to manage one than one thing at a time my systems become confused and my entire cognitive self management complex breaks down resulting IN A HUGE MELTDOWN! When my systems break due to social, cognitive and sensory overload I melt down big time. So I had to bring order to the process of multitasking. I use a system based on single track sequential multitasking.

My system is focused on, manages and still processes only one thing at a time. However there are pauses built into every process. What I do is use the pauses or otherwise structure pauses in all my tasks so I can load a different process into my current focus whenever a natural or engineered opening occurs. I switch during the lulls in activity so my single focused based system is always working on different threads of instucture across multiple tasks. NT's experience sequential multitasking just like their multitasking. Some very very observant NT's have detected my multitasking system is highly structured sequential because; it can be disrupted if you know how. However my sequential multitasking is good enough to let me manage multiple projects and tasks at the same time.

So yes I multitask but like everything else I do as an autistic man I don't follow the NT rule book in doing it.