I got lost today

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Have you ever just been so completely focused on something that you are unaware of what you're doing, and then you just kind of--poof!--wake up? Today, I got on a bus to go to the downtown library. I started reading a book and the next thing I know I'm at the airport, which is completely on the other end of town. I have no recollection of transferring buses, or getting off the bus. All I know is I ended up at the airport. I must have shown my bus pass. I must have switched buses. But man, oh man, I cannot remember! It was a really good book, though, and I finished it by the time I got home.

Does anything like that ever happen to you? I mean, not the whole bus part, but the "getting lost" part?

I once walked home about a mile from my favorite coffee house-then remembered i had left the car there.

He he, me too. Except I didn't drive. I just forgot I had gone with someone.

Welcome to my world.

Yes, I get lost because I am lost in thought sometimes, but no, I have never accidentally ridden the bus to the airport.

My mum went to the post office once and when my dad came home from work about an hour later asked her where the baby was, my little sister was about 5 weeks old, mum had left her outside the post office, she ran back and found the pram with my sisiter still inside fast asleep.
But me getting lost involved in a good book, only in time.

I get lost so much. I get turned around in all directions. I got lost walking home from school one day and ended up on the other side of town. I had to stop and ask for directions to get back home. If I don’t pay attention on the bus I’ll miss my stop or if I get off the bus in a hurry I’ll forget where I’m going in the first place.

I can talk to people and I dont remember them saying anything and I dont know I said something.

Ohhh man this is the biggest part of AS that I would want to change. I can't do a thing. I have been lost so many times and now I'm terrified of it happening again. The thought of getting lost sets me off panicking even. I can only go in a 10mile radius of my own home, that's the truth. It rules my whole life. Is this an AS trait though? I hadn't come across it before as one but already I feel less frustrated knowing that at least some of you get lost quite a bit.

I Myself have taken the wrong bus and done things that has gotten Me lost. I sometimes have this problem if I am not watching Myself enough. Though I don't try to make a habit of it as much as I can. I have to just laugh at Myself when I do this in the end.

I have gotten lost since I was small. I have zero sense of direction. When we lived in Tucson I was trying to get home after a class and I remembered that the house was at the base of a mountain. Well there are three different mountain ranges surrounding Tucson. That I did not know. So I just chose the direction I thought was correct and drove toward the mountain. I ended up on the other side of town from where I was supposed to be driving around crying because I didn't want to have to ask anyone and it was getting dark. Eventually I found a payphone and got directions home. My whole life this is a repeat occurence.

I don't get lost very often because I'm obsessed with maps. Sometimes I'll miss my stop on the train because I was reading or something.

When I go on vacations with my NT friends, one of the things we like to do if we're in a big city is get a transit map (just in case) and then start getting on busses at random or take the subway and get off at random stops and then walk around. It's a great way to see the city and get away from the tourist traps.

getting lost rules! if its because of obsessing over a book or other things. i do it all the time, but i dont think its an aspie trait, especially if u can only stay close to home cause u will get lost. then i dont think its an aspie trait. but i think its about beeing absent minded.

my sense of direction suxxx, but then again i do this sport called "orienteering", which is running around in the woods using a map. so at that activity i am kinda great, but thats just coz i am concentrating and there arent alot of other people in the woods/mountains/outdoors.

i think my poor sense of direction caused by my obsessive nature is something i would defenately like to keep. (actually i would like to keep ALL of my autism...)