Are you good at multitasking?

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NOOO!
i could never do that even when i was little i had a problem with that my mom would always test me to see if i forgot to do something i always did

I can only do one thing that needs concentration plus a few things that don't and are automatic (like breathing, listening music, talking without knowing what i'm actually saying, painting a surface, ...)

If I do a second thing that needs concentration my attention lowers for the first one, at a point that I'm able to drop a glass in my hand,
drive off the road when someone yells in the back, stop writing when someone talks to me, etc.

No, not really. Recently, I was making a dinner that was a little more stressful than usual, in terms of multi-tasking, so I was concentrating on everything at once....and I screwed it up...well, one of my appliances exploded because I forgot to remove it from the still hot stove...(I may have forgotten to turn off the stove). There was a huge fireball and everything. Luckily, I was not directly in the line of fire. But, what that means is that my trying to multi-task can be dangerous...

I am a great cook mind you, I´ve just learned how to cook things that aren´t too stressful. (or one thing at a time). I have a lot of coping strategies with cooking.

And I can basically only have a conversation in the car while I´m driving IF I´m talking about the actual driving...what the traffic is like, where to turn, etc.

Not particularly, I sometimes just stop doing anything when I have to do/listen to more than one thing at a time. I don't think I'm awful at it though.

No.

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can i multitask? no, not at all.

I like to think I'm good at it, but frankly, I don't know.

I don't know if NT people are really any better at it.

Multitasking means being able to do more than one thing at the same time, but I don't think I've met any NT person who can do anything requiring any level of real mental focus while doing another activity.

Dialing a phone while driving in a straight line is not multitasking.

Dialing a phone while doing math in your head is multitasking.

No. For instance I can't talk while doing something that requires motor skills, like stirring something or painting. I have to turn off the car radio if I have to do some maneuvers that require extra concentration. I even did the glass-thing: I was holding a glass of water and came to think of something. This made me lose focus on the glass which I dropped

I also get very frustrated if people interupt me when I am in the middle of something.

I am not good at multitasking either. One thing at a time, could be my motto.

If I am doing something that needs concentration, eg. struggling with cutting a hard bread, and someone asks me a question, I'll usually say, wait a moment, I'm doing something. And answer when I'm finished.

Before I knew I was an aspie, I always got annoyed when some "smart" guy would tell me "I thought women could multitask". I might still get a bit annoyed when it happens, but will maybe say: "No, aspie women can't multitask". (Or just that I have a difficulty with multitasking.)

Is there really any truth to this idea that women should be better at multitasking- (i.e., scientific evidence)- or is this just an old wive´s tale?

Fascinating - inabiity to multi-task is often cited as an Aspie trait, yet there appears to be little evidence that human multi-tasking really exists:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_multitasking

I seem to be able to perform one main task and slip in a few brief, simple operations during slack points in the main task. If I have to wait for something to process, I can get a bit of other stuff done in the meantime, but I find it's risky unless I set a timer. Even on that level, I find it can reduce my effectiveness because attention to one task can remove my attention from another at a point where it's not really a "natural break."

I suppose, inasfar as multi-tasking is possible at all, I'm probably worse at it than a neurotypical, because I have the Aspie difficulty in picking a job up again after I've been distracted. I'm a lot happier if I can just do one thing at a time.....often I notice limitations even when doing that, because a single project will more than likely involve a number of sub-tasks, which I have to flip between. And I tend to get more ideas occurring to me than I have the time to explore, they kind of "bottleneck" and I try to hold onto them all, which is distressing.

Obviously there's a big difference between well-learned tasks, such as riding a bike, and tasks that require the application of the conscious mind, such as reading a new document. The former is much easier to run alongside other tasks, as long as nothing goes wrong.

I can!! ! I'm doing it right now in fact. At this moment I've got 9 tabs open and am doing stuff on each one, while listening to music, while watching the tele. Oh and I hate it when woman say "men can’t multitask".........its just sexist.

For me multitasking means doing several things at 75% efficiency as opposed to one thing at 100% efficiency.

That sounds to me like you're just switching your attention between each thing, rather than doing all at once. I believe multitasking is to perform multiple actions at the exact same time, rather than perform many actions over a short period of time. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I can do multitasking, but I can't say that I'm particularly good at it. If I multitask on something, I tend to make small mistakes that can take twice as much time to fix. Therefore, I prefer to do one thing at a time.

On the computer I can and usually always do but today I couldnt hang the laundry and watch photos on the TV at the same time. I guess it depends on what tasks it concerns