Multy-tasking

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Multy-tasking is a consept known to me only in theory. It is supposed to be more time efficient to do more than one thing at a time like washing the dishes while the microwave dinner cooks, rather than wait for the microwave to finish, eat the food, then do a chore. Well this concept is extraordinarily irritating to me.

I hate it when I am on my way to the kitchen to get a sppon and i get stopped and asked to get a bottle of water "while im in there". It distracts me, irritates me that I have to juggle both tasks and usually I end up forgetting to do one of such tasks anyways and have to go back and do it all over again or have to go back and forth asking the same questions over and over agian "so you wanted mayo and cheese on your sandwich?" yes "how many slices again?"

I get anxious all the time. Lately I have been falling asleep exhausted and waking up with panic attacks. lately getting woken up makes me come out of sleep with a start and gets my heart racing.

I can multitask, but I often get distracted and forget what I was doing. So I guess I don't multitask well.

A normal multitasking episode might go something like this for me:

1. I wash the dishes.
2. I clean the stovetop when done except for my cast-iron pan
3. I wash the cast-iron pan then put it on the stove to dry- stove is on.
4. While pan is on the stove I go to get some cleaner from the laundry room(trying to use my time wisely instead of standing there watching a pan dry).
5. A child distracts me on my way with something
6. I walk into the laundry room and forget why I was there
7. I go to do whatever child wanted
8. I go to the living room, sit down, and turn on the TV
9. I (or hubby) smell something funny. YIKES! I left the pan on the stove!

Multitasking at it's finest!

yeah multitasking is a cool thing... it means less time spent doing work which can never hurt!

I can't multi-task well at all. And my knowledge of this makes me ashamed and angry at myself, which raises my anxiety, which then makes it even harder to multi-task. So it sucks. At the moment, it hurts my self-esteem more than any other AS symptom I have. I can tell that I do better at juggling tasks when I'm less anxious and can really concentrate on what's going on. Having ADHD along with AS makes it really hard to keep my mind from wandering when I'm trying to get things done, and I often end up wandering the house, missing my freeway exit, etc. because I've forgotten where I am and what I'm trying to get accomplished. It's frustrating, but getting upset about it makes it so much worse.

lol, multi-tasking is not my thing at all. I have a lot of problems just being asked a question while I am doing something. If I am making dinner for my boyfriend or something, everyone in the house has to be entirely quiet so I can keep focus. It's amazing how many ingredients I have wasted just trying to make a meal, or how many times I've opened up the wrong can of veggies and had to throw it out because the colors don't look nice together to eat XD

Cleaning is awful for me. Everything winds up half-assed because I keep on thinking of other things that I need to do and forgetting about whatever I started to do originally. The worst is trying to talk to important people on the phone when the kiddos are talking to me at the same time, lol. I've called case workers "hun" before, or told them what I was making for dinner, etc., lol.

The NT's around me get really infurated because I cant. I can somtimes task switch but if anyting out of the ordenary happens the held task will be droped and fogoten about altogether.
In genral I find it more eficent (and more enjoyable) to sit and stare into space for a while until the event that allows me to compleat the one task than to rush about trying to do more than one thing at a time and as as soon as one thing goes wrong the whole lot collapses. Worse is to have another task introduced in the midst of another my only option is to be rude and ignore the introduced task or be rude and compleatly drop the existing task.
The types of job I hate most is waiting or bar tending where multiple custermers all in a hurry issue multiple requests, when it gets bussy I just get overwhelmed and soon lernt this type of work is to be avoided like plague!

I am really bad at multi-tasking. It is one of the things I find really hard at work. They think I'm being unreasonable when I complain that I can't do two things at once so would they rather I finish what I am doing or stop doing that and do the new task instead?

And it really really annoys me when people say "but you're a woman, you're supposed to be able to multi-task!" as if I'm a traitor to my sex. I'm certain that the other women think I am totally letting the side down.

And my (male) friend likes to multi-task which irritates me no end (e.g. while I am talking to him on the phone I can hear him typing something on his PC, so I yell at him for not listening to me), as well as making me feel even more inadequate.

I don't even like to start long or complicated tasks unless I am certain I have time to complete the whole thing without being interrupted, which means that there are an awful lot of things I don't get done at all!

I have ADHD too along with a working memory deficiency, but changing and juggling tasks (multitasking) actually helps me put forth more attention than I would be able to otherwise because most of my ADHD symptoms show up the most when I'm doing one thing for too long... for me it's either do one thing then do another than come back to the original thing or just do one thing and fade out. I think the best thing to do when you HAVE ADHD is to follow your mind to what it wants to do and then when its ready to go back to the original, then go back Sadly it can't be applied to problems like you missing your freeway exit, but it works for most things, at least in my experience.

I'm too depressed and understimulated to do that kind of dull-but-demanding work (as in, it demands a dull dumb person), so I don't know about me.

Indeed, I have tried multitasking at the job, in collage, even at home, and refuse to do so anylonger. Its sooo frusterating, at least in collage I could keep a notepad of everything that needed to be done and i could put unfinished work in 1 folder and return to it later.

AT work, sometimes im expected to supervise others, unfortunalty half the crew I work with has never even acheived a high school degree (im not saying those without are dumb, some had other issues, but in their case... they are really dumb!!) And so here I am shouting out directions to a crowd with the average IQ of 70 (feels like) and i have to not only direct everyone but also check to enshure their pallets are good, i dont get ran over by them while they are driving the equipment, i sometimes need to organize where they put things!! ! AND even check for errors, recently i told the boss i refuse to work a bunch of ppl who cant perform the job they are payed for.

I feel mean for saying these things but you really gotta be their, since im regarded as a very good employee, i get my way alot, and so now i select individuals to help me (those that know their job) and weed out the crappy ones because I cant multy task like other supervisors do.

I may not be the best supervisor, but am 1 of the highest producing one, so i tend to get what I want as a result. I feel that we may not be equipped to handle multiple tasks at once, so if you have control over the situation, why put yourself thru all that????? Just dont if u dont have too!

i am bad in multi-tasking .

I am best when I can do one thing at a time and put my full effort into that one thing. I hate being interrupted.

I'm bad at doing one task at a time!! !!

I'm on the computer a lot and usually I'll try to multitask. I'll have a chat room open, and instant message client, a forum, something I googled from the forum, something I wanted to read about. But I'll end up ignoring someone in the instant message client who will get upset with me. I'll forget I have the chat room up. I'll get sucked into the forum and forget the googling or get sucked into hte googling and forget the forum, and nevermind that thing I wanted to read about. If I close windows instead of quitting safari right away I might come across it when I do that.

The inability to multitask is a part of autism spectrum disorders.

I have major trouble trying to accomplish one simple task at a time, let alone multi-tasking. What's really odd though is that it seems that I used to be able to multi-task extremely well in some situations. I used to be a successful sales person at a Guitar Center store. I was usually able to do a great job juggling several customers/deals at the same time. I have no idea how I was able to do that, because now I can't even seem to accomplish washing the dishes. But that is how it's always been with me. I can totally excel at some things while being beyond incompetent at other things at the same time.

I was able to read at the age of 3. My parents never noticed that something was very different about me because I was the most 'normal' member of the family. Everyone thought that I was just a pretty good kid and intelligent. I read something today (for the first time) that mentioned reading at such a young age to be a common AS trait.