trouble focusing/motivating

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I'm wondering if this is a side-effect of being aspie, or maybe something else?

I just have a really hard time getting myself to focus on important tasks a lot of the time, and i also feel like I have no energy and need to eat a snack pretty often. When I do, it makes me feel better for a little while, but usually that feeling of emptiness and no energy just comes back after an hour or so.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

This is very true to me as well, but I have no idea if it's connected with Aspergers.

Well sort of but more my brain freezes and then I get detracted. I actually want to do these things.

I take it you are eating something sugary or calorific?? That can give you a temporary buzz , and it might actually make you more focused temporarily but it will drain the life out of you soon after. Best to eat healthily and exercise if you can. Then you can think about looking into other areas like ADHD and executive dysfunction. It is actually things like depression that makes you really not want to do things. Sugary things not great for that at all.

Try eating some form of nuts that are natural and unflavored.

Often the feeling of tiredness after an hour or so of eating is due to a blood sugar drop. It means you should probably eat something with a bit of protein in your snacks to help balance things out. I'm hypoglycemic, and if I eat sweets or drink a soda (which I do all too often :\) after an hour or so I get tired, dizzy, shaky, irritable, and extremely hungry. YMMV of course, but try to eat healthy. Otherwise known as do as I say, not as I do. D:

Same here, cant do anything for very long..

That's how I've felt very often lately.

You need ask your self how bad is it and how much can live with this (admittedly other) person. You might end up a guinea pig for drug originally conceived for people with with Alzheimer's and Dementia that may or may not work.

Just the other day I upped too quickly I was getting lots of eclectic shocks in my brain and pulsating down my back and arms at night. I couldn't keep myself awake or my eyes open. Just blinking would make me go under. My eyes were dried up and like sandpaper forcing them to stay open. Everything was really fast and the room would start spinning and the 'dreams' where accompanied by never ending high pitched singing and music.

I'm ok now, sticking to the previous dose. But it just made me think I only have a couple of other drugs I could possibly try, that's my lot. This is really is on the fringes of science at the moment. Sure there is stuff for general underactive brain that might me able to sort many ADHDer's for five years or so before it wears off, of which case they have hopefully sorted there life out by then and maybe they weren't all that bad afterall. But if you have more serious cognitive/executive dysfunction your option are more limited.

This is my life. I don't know if it has anything to do with Aspergers.

Well, ADD is a pretty common comorbid, and even where that isn't appropriate it's known that aspies can be easily distracted from tasks that don't interest them. I'm guessing this is quite normal. Happens to me on occasion, for sure.

story of my life.
There is so much chaos around me (of my own making)
That I have no idea what to focus on.
...and yes I have ADD.

Thanks for all the replies. I have thought at various times that maybe I have ADD or maybe have hypoglycemic tendencies or something...a physical last January showed normal blood sugar though. My dad is also a probable aspie and slightly bipolar, so I'm not ruling out a comorbid thing like ADD. I always was so far ahead of the pack in school and naturally shy and awkward around people that if I do have ADD it probably never was noticeable to anyone but myself as I've had a hard time getting myself to sit down and do assignments ever since...about 4th grade?

Like others I have the same problems but wondering wether it is related to AS. I believe it is. Doing simple tasks take a lot more effort for us than NTs.

I have ASD, ADHD and this... funny... concentration problem, which I feel is not connected to ADHD. I may be wrong though, because I don't know where it comes from.

I start to feel really sleepy and funny when I don't eat regularly, every two, three hours. I don't consume sugary things (which last like zero hours anyway!), I eat the same as my family or my friends which get by with the food a lot longer than me. I can eat a lot and still not gain weight, but I really need to eat something to be able to concentrate. It's annoying, because I get all confused and sleepy when I have to work on a task, but didn't eat anything in the past three hours.

I don't believe I'm hypoglycemic though. I checked one morning and it said something about 85. I felt great too, not hungry or sleepy or anything.

i have major problems with motivation and energy aswell

Oh yes this is me!

The various medical professionals i have seen wont even entertain the idea that i have ADD

I try to do something, then any motivation i had fades, so i try harder, head shuts down, i forget what im doing even though i have been doing it for a while, anger sets in, get hot and bothered and a state of confusion. So i take a rest, go somewhere quiet. Come back, im ok for 10 minutes and its back . On top of that the social issues just trash any chance of me getting employment.