Lower functioning days?

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I have Aspergers, but I have experienced lower functioning days, too. It's like I'm stuck in slow motion, and every little task becomes a big deal. I have trouble getting tasks started, and even once started, they take much longer to accomplish than usual. I am clumsier, too, I think because I am less "aware" on those days. I tend to accidentaly break or drop things, bump into stuff, and make dumb mistakes, like locking myself out of the house, or putting my clothes on inside out.

Sometimes I have a few days in a row like this, where I have to really strain to keep focusing on paying attention to the meaning of conversations, so that I don't "tune out" and hear just noise. Even focusing my own thoughts becomes difficult at times, because my mind drifts. The thing that helps most is a whole lot of caffeine, though I'll probably have trouble sleeping later on.

Some days (not so often) are so good you could hardly see I'm different, but I also have days when I'm practically non-verbal and barely functional.

Yup. Usually when I'm fighting an infection. More light sensitive, and my already low ability to 'decode' social behaviours completely dies on me.

Yes, I can be like this too. If I cram more than one social event into one day, I switch off completely at the next one.

I'm just the same. I went to a trip with guides last year and we were there for a long weekend. On the saturday night I was really sociable and talking to all the girls in the dorm, especially one girl who I was sure was going to be my friend for ages. But next morning I could barely say a word to her without feeling awkward and was just quiet and didn't want much to do with people.