15 Jun 2009, 7:46 pm
Sometimes when I come out of a daydream it feels as if 5 or 10 minutes has gone by but it's actually been about 5 seconds 
15 Jun 2009, 8:30 pm
I forgot about the time I sat in a plate of spaghetti ( it was for a customer and the cook put it on the beer box-which happened to be my favorite perch) 
16 Jun 2009, 8:16 am
I catch myself doing this often. My auto pilot is a good friend, but every now and then it gets things mixed up.
Justin6378
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Joined: 22 May 2009
Age: 46
Gender: Male
Posts: 254
Location: Colchester, eastern England.
16 Jun 2009, 8:38 am
It's generally quite dangerous for me to walk about with something in my hand because i'll put it down somewhere and not even notice, i haven't seen my house keys for months 
also the other day i was looking for a driver CD and a USB cable, i found the CD and kept looking for the cable with the CD still in my hand, mistake, by the time i gave up looking for the cable, the CD was nowere to be seen, meaning i had to search the whole house again to find out where i'd put it just a few minutes earlier.
Sometimes when i have a drink i keep picking up the mug for more and realising its already empty 
16 Jun 2009, 9:00 am
Something else I have discovered, related to this is that when something goes missing for a long time, and I give up trying to find it, and go out and replace it, often in the place I choose to put away the replaced item, I find the old one.
fiddlerpianist
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Joined: 30 Apr 2009
Age: 47
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,821
Location: The Autistic Hinterlands
16 Jun 2009, 9:57 am
I do this all the time. In order to remember where it was that I unconsciously put something, I have to go back and remember what I was doing at the time I suspect I put it down.
16 Jun 2009, 10:07 am
Then, without really realising what I was doing, I shrugged as a response to a thought, causing most of the contents of the bottle to spray across my room, wall, sink, mirror, carpet, feet, and pajamas.
I was really annoyed; partly because I had to scrub green mouthwash off everything in the vicinity and partly because I had actually done the EXACT same thing a few months earlier. It appears I did not learn from my mistake.
I'm curious as to whether others with AS/ASD also forget they're holding objects and consequently drop/break/spill/dispose/ingest/catapult/etc. said objects.
I notice I drop things constantly...I don´t know what´s wrong with me. I, too, can get lost in thought and drop or spill something. I have also been known to fall asleep with a cup of tea in my hand, only to awaken as the hot contents pour all over me. However, a lot of the time things just...well....drop. It´s like items seem to just slip out of my hands. Or, I´ll knock over a glass of wine that I forgot was next to me, or knock over something else that I knew was next to me but just misjudged how far it was. It´s a drag; I spend a lot of time cleaning up brightly colored liquids, sweeping up the sugar off the floor, etc.
16 Jun 2009, 11:01 am
Then, without really realising what I was doing, I shrugged as a response to a thought, causing most of the contents of the bottle to spray across my room, wall, sink, mirror, carpet, feet, and pajamas.
I'm curious as to whether others with AS/ASD also forget they're holding objects and consequently drop/break/spill/dispose/ingest/catapult/etc. said objects.
I've done this before but only ever a couple of times in my life. I do however show my facial expressions sometimes to other people whilst I'm still daydreaming
However my main problem is that when in a daydream I speak what is being said out loud. I do this quite often as well. Does anybody else do this or is it just me?
16 Jun 2009, 11:28 am
16 Jun 2009, 11:36 am
I've done that a lot. When I used to eat yoghurts (don't like them any more) I almost always would find myself putting the spoon in the bin and the yoghurt pot in the sink.
16 Jun 2009, 11:59 am
16 Jun 2009, 12:07 pm
17 Jun 2009, 10:54 pm
