Committing the SAME mistakes over and over...

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When I was younger I seemed to have a better database for pulling up past transgressions and remembereing how I dealt with them. I am 36, burnt out and my memory for dealing with "correcting mistakes" seems to have gone out the window.

I can remember the situation with startling clarity but the way I DEALT with it has gone bye byes.....

I am reduced to saying to myself "Okay when that person did that thing and you reacted this way or took this action, WHAT HAPPENED? Did it work and how did you do it? C'MON THINK!! !!"

It is like someone keeps clearing my "history" and not clicking "refresh" instead.....

You know that saying "we learn from our mistakes"?........well I might have believed that a long time ago, but not now. I feel like an infant who keeps putting their hand on the hot stove, and knowing when they go to do it next time, a familiar feeling comes but they are unable to place it and so touch the hot stove in a feeble attempt to remember what they are supposed to be familiar with.

Confused yet

Mics

Yeah...about that...the phrase should be "Neurotypicals learn from their mistakes"...we tend to take quite a few more trips to the stove before things start to sink in, thus the term 'learning disability'.

I can't count the times I've encountered what seemed to be a familiar situation and thought - "Aha! If I do this, then that will happen, so instead, I will do thus, thereby avoiding - oh, crap! I never saw the other thing coming." How did I miss that?

I find myself doing that, often. I don't do it as often as I used to. I've learned a few years ago, to pick up on my mistakes, here at WrongPlanet.

Totally happens to me. I think the reason is that my difficulty is in reading situations. Having understood a situation with days of hindsight and reflection doesn't change the lack of skill in the flow of things.

Yeah, I'm like that too. It's probably because when I do something wrong I want to forget that it happened.

Same for me, I make a mistake, then later make the same mistake again, notrealizing until after that I had done that before, because everything surounding the situation was different. Different enviroment, different people, different whatever else, and then the memory of having made this mistake before doesn't come to mind until after it's to late.

It happens to me too. I keep making the same mistakes over and over again. No matter how hard I try not to I keep making the mistake.

Are you talking about mistakes in social situations or just mistakes in general like. . . getting your oil changed -- all you Aspies are actually robots, right?