Trouble with finding objects around/in front of you? YESSS

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I've had meltdowns from trying to find things under stress, like keys that I always find in a dumb place later on.. like right in front of me on the floor were I've looked.

I notice my father also freaks out when he looses something and it suddenly becomes everyone's problem if it can't be found quickly.

Thank you to everyone for sharing. I laught a lot reading some posts!
This topic is tragic and so funny in the same time...

I have this issue too. I'm also disorganized, which adds insult to injury so to speak. Now that I realize i have aspies I have to change my habits accordingly.

Oh no, not that! I definitely got that! No matter if its at work or at home. Just before my summer vacation, i used my drilling machine, put it away on its regular place, and since it had been moved by a colleague (just 5 to 10 cm) i just couldn't see it... Was that embarrassing, when i asked him, just to find out it had been there all the time! - Or another time when i ran around my home several times, during two days, to find my sunglasses. Yep, they were, at their regular place, on the top of my PC- maxitower all by themselves, a place i'd been looking at several times!! !
The more stress the worse. But, for me, it seems its getting worse with age. Also i'we had a feeling of being burned out, that has increased over the last couple of years.
I use to make a laugh of it, calling it my Altzheimers light...

me too then I go in freak out mode.

Last week my husband cancelled all his credit cards because his wallet got lost. He got anxious and was bordering panic attack. I think he was having a melt down. I do not know. It is the first time I see him like this in 16 years. I was asking him to calm down, but it was useless. I was trying for him to remember the last place he saw his wallet, but it did not work either. He could not think. Turned out the wallet fell from his pocket and was over his chair in a weird position, so it was not visible. He found it after calling all the banks and cancelling all the credit cards.

This is a major problem for me.

It doesn't help that I have poor vision and have a lot of clutter, which is very difficult to sort when you are used to just ignoring visually complex areas (I grew up in an extremely cluttered house that wouldn't have been out of place on the show Hoarders and am obsessive-compulsive about neatness, but once it gets too visually complex it stresses me out too much to look or think about it).