Are you sometimes absent-minded ?

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Oh, no, I'm * never* absent minded. I'm always extremely focused and --- oh, hey, there's a squirrel. And look, there's a shiny object on the ground. Oooh, pretty sparkles. I like sparkles.
Wait - what was I saying?
Yeah, I'm pretty much absent minded all the time, especially when I'm trying to multitask. Even when I'm just doing one thing, I can occasionally forget crucial details of a task if my mind is elsewhere (as it often is). A few months ago, I was heating up a noodle dish in the microwave. This was one of those dishes where you put noodles, seasoning and oil in a little disposable bowl together, then "just add water" before heating it up in the microwave. Guess what this genius forgot to add? I nearly started a fire in my microwave. I have plenty more similar stories, but I'll refrain from sharing so this post doesn't go on forever.

Last edited by OuterBoroughGirl on 13 Nov 2010, 12:13 am, edited 1 time in total.

I'm not absent-minded. I simply get focused enough on my thoughts to forget everything about the outside word.

My thoughts, animals and beautiful women, to be honest...

The more nervous I am, the more absent-minded I am. Unfortunately, this means that when I do something stupid, it's usually in front of people.

I am very absent minded. That is why I have a wife and and iPhone to tell me what to do.

Hardly. and when it does happen, (like for instance if i leave my keys in the door of my house) it bothers me so much like you wouldnt believe! such a angry time, I mean my goodness!

I'm quite absent-minded. I identified strongly as being absent-minded well before I had any idea that I might have some autistic tendencies. Ever since I was beginning my undergraduate degree about 10 years ago, I have told people that I hope to ultimately become an absent-minded professor. Every now and again someone tells me, "You know, you don't have to be absent-minded to be a professor", and I tell them that the absent-minded part comes without trying, it's the professor part I have to work on.

I'm "lucky" (convenient word, though I don't believe in luck) that my absentmindedness is rarely an actual problem - it's more likely to be amusing or annoying than actually problematic - though it has been dangerous on occasion when I'm absent-minded about crossing the street and cross when it isn't really safe. My favourite absent-minded incident:

One time I was walking to my office. I got my keys out of my pocket ahead of time. Holding my keys, I walked up to my office door, and reached into my pocket to get my keys. I felt around and couldn't find them in either pocket and wondered what had happened to them - until I realized that I was already holding the keys in the hand I was trying to find them with.

YESSSS I can be so absent-minded sometimes lol

Among other things, I don't know how many times I was caught being "in the moon" in class, and like the person who mentions he was looking for his cellphone while talking on the cellphone, this kind of thing happens to me quite often.

Shadi

Last edited by Shadi2 on 16 Nov 2010, 4:42 am, edited 2 times in total.

Same with me too.

So, I take it that I'm not the only one here with a perfect understanding of the comment that "you'dwould forget your head if it wasn't attached?"

edited to add:
Ya know, I meant to include a story of my own absentmindedness - but I forgot.

Except I'd argue and say it should be the other way round - the head's what's doing the remembering and forgetting, so the rest of my body is what I'd forget if it wasn't attached.

*chuckle* Yeah, I see your point. I think the logic is that the person in question is so ineffective at remembering stuff that it really doesn't matter if they take their head with them or not.

Either way, I'd say there's less chance of getting this one changed than there is of getting people to recognize that "I could care less" does not mean what intended in its normal usage.

Yes, at times I've been absent -minded during scenarios either from an occupational standpoint or social ones as well..

I can be so absent-minded sometimes that once I even went out without brushing my hair! Name one adult female who forgets to brush her hair in the morning (other than me)!

sometimes? more like all the time it seems-I can walk into a room and notice if someone moved a chair or took a sharpie off the desk but I cant remember why I went into the room in the first place because I can be a scatterbrain.

I tend to misplace things a lot and when I go to fetch something I think about stuff and forget what I went for and sometimes I'll open a new window on the computer and forget what I wanted to search for or why I went to a particular website.

I'm not like that - I just forget to do things what most adults remember to do naturally, without having to be reminded. Every time I walk out the front door to go to work, I always realise I've forgotten to do something. Usually I forget to look at my face in a mirror before going out (my mum says everyone should always do that to check if any food was round the mouth or something). And if I remember to do that, I bet you I'll have forgotten to do something else, like put lipstick on.

It's like I haven't learnt to be self-reliant yet. When will I learn?