Making lots of little mistakes

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For some reason I make lots of little mistakes in ordinary everyday life. Sometimes it's cost me my job. I won't see something on a cluttered computer screen that made the difference between life and death, that everyone else could see. I get lost when driving, even to very familiar places. I have to really put my entire concentration to do any little thing without errors. I get dates wrong. I can't find things. Paying a bill seems like a major challenge. Making coffee is fraught with danger that I might leave out the coffee or the water by accident.

On tests, I have a superior memory, and I'm not ADD. I just make constant errors.

Is any of this related to AS, or is this something else?

I am the same. I can only focus on one thing at a time and get distracted easily. My solution is to stay as organized as possible. Keep your space in order, do things on a schedule, make lists, keep distractions to a minimum. It's just the way our brains work and when they work we possess powers far beyond those of puny NTs(insert evil laugh). As Monk says, it's a blessing...and it's a curse.

I would guess it's related to executive function problems.

I'm exactly the same way. It's frustrating because I'm constantly having to re-do work for relatively small things that I have missed. On a few occasions I have made fairly major screw-ups. Never enough to get me fired, but there have been a couple of near misses.

I recently read "The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gwande in order to try to create some habits that might help me catch mistakes before I finish a job. It may be helping a bit in that I am trying to review my work before I send it out, but it's a difficult problem to solve.

I think the only thing that has kept me from burning down my apartment or locking myself out of cars and houses is my obsessive compulsive nature. I just wish I could be a bit more obsessive about work.

Don't call them mistakes.

Call them "exploration of evolutionary potentialities via anomalous results".



I have similar problems. Day to day trivialities seem to never even enter my mind. The problem is that while each is a small thing, they add up to non trivial consequences.

and i call my addled perceptions "un-common sense."
i have had to keep my life very simple, in order to not run out of neural processing capacity nor working memory.