Do Aspies tend to be scatterbrained?

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I am,and notice in my case I tend to e.g. forget or lose things when i am doing things that i don't normally do. For example, if i start something new, school, house etc. i almost always lose something, such as a key, travel pass etc.. When i'm eating at an odd time, or cooking something new, i may forget to turn the oven off/on. If i'm carrying something i tend not to carry on a day-to-day basis, i will leave it on a bus or something.
The conclusion i draw from such cases is that for me at least, I go through life on autopilot when it comes matters of general existence( and hence why i like routine, because it allows me to do this), which is all well and good except when my situation changes and i don't have the ability to change with it.

only when it comes to things i dont pirticularly care for

Scatterbrained will do me fine. I can't go anywhere without a list of things to do, otherwise I just wander into the record shop. Yet I can tell you what CDs and records I have, the years they came out, who's in the band, all that. Yet recently I discovered I had misplaced the case for an album, and have no idea where it is. None.
The only reason I have a schedule of daily meals is that I can remember what comes next, and what day it is. That and I don't then spend half an hour deciding what to have, only to be distracted by the mail, music in my head, the aforementioned shiny things. Its funny, my overall disposition improves every time I read topics that describe, well, me. Its comforting to know that I'm not the only Aspie out there, it really is.

It's particularly bad when I am rushed, distracted or anxious. Tonight I was all three on the way to a meeting and lost a valuable ring on the way . It;s not everyday. Somedays I forget to eat and only remember when I begin to feel woozy from low blood sugar. I am easily distracted - for example if I get an upsetting phonecall it goes on in my mind and I'm inwardly focused, not focused externally on what I'm doing, so I drop things, lose things.

Tonight was really bad. As I parked my car I was distracted by a large insect on the windscreen which I got out to look at before going into the meeting. Thinking about the insect, I forgot to lock my car and turn off the headlights. Then I couldn't find my car keys and noticed my ring was missing. Then I was angry with myself and emotionally upset which only made things worse.

Externally I can't multitask and internally, in my brain, I can't multitask either. I'm tired of losing and breaking precious things, and am feeling really dispirited about being like this tonight.
I found that by using tranquilisers I was much more focused though I can't take them any more as I was becoming addicted to them. My eyesight is poor so that compounds the problem. I didn't know until tonight that this losing stuff was an Aspie thing too. It's a relief to learn that. I came home feeling like such a hopeless loser though at least I don't feel so alone with that after reading this thread.

I'll admit I can be at times.

Can't say for sure if you have AS or not, but I have both of those issues as well....thing is not so sure they can nessisarily be attributed to the autism or something else and I am not officially diagnosed either so perhaps I don't have AS at all and something else entirely accounts for what I perceive as AS symptoms. I know the forgetfulness is an issue I have always had, but depression and PTSD which I also have can also effect concentration and cognitive abilities.

Saying the wrong thing, or wording things wrong is the worst, not only because you're only trying to you know be part of the world and interact only to screw up the moment...but also the way people get mad, its like for some reason if they get mad at you saying the wrong thing any explination or even apologies just seem to make it even worse. The other day that happened with my brother and I was sick of that reaction from people so I told him 'well you're going to have to explain to me what bothered you because I really don't get it.' Basically I worded something in a way that made him think I was guilt tripping when I was just more feeling akward because he was in a bit of a bad mood so it didn't come out right.

Now I get it and can try not to word things in a simular fashion to how I did to avoid making people feel guilt tripped........but yeah usually its impossible to find out what exactly I did wrong to bother people or people think I know and am just playing dumb or something I guess.

I'm very scatterbrained.

The thread is dead....long live the thread!

"Scatterbrained" is exactly what you'd expect if your neurotype is geared to analysis of a particular matter, and then has to rapidly "change gears".

This is me. I cant find things or remember things. I am distracted or focused on one thing at a time. I cant multitask. It is getting worse.

What was the question again?