AS and short term memory

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My short term memory is awful.

I can't remember small pieces of information literally one second to the next.

It could be ADD, but I am pretty sure AS is part of it as well.

How is everyone else's short term memory?

when my AS was dxed, my working memory was noted to be subpar.

im the same way! i have ADD and i deffenitly think thats part of it but i dont know if AS effects short term memory. i dont know. does it??

Mine fluctuates.

the psychiatrist who dxed me said my subpar working memory was a part of AS and also a part of ADHD inattentive subtype [ADD].

Let me describe my memory with an example: almost every time I take a shower, at some point I stop and think, "Did I just start or am I finishing up?"

i can never be sure that i locked the door or that i turned things off before i left the house. after parking the car someplace, i can never be sure that i locked the car doors. i sometimes forget if i took my vitamins/scripts some days, so i have to mark a "V" on the calendar to indicate later if i did indeed take my pills for that day.

I don't know how many times I'll be reading something and not understand a word, so I'll open up a new tab and Google it. By the time Google loads (0.1 seconds at most), I'll forget why I opened up a new tab.

I think it has to do with attention. What interests us gets our attention and we remember it. What doesn't interest us only gets peripheral attention and gets forgotten quickly. When we suddenly need to remember something that doesn't normally interest us but we acknowledge is important, our short term memory is out of condition (like an unused muscle), so we don't remember anyway.

I think memory could be trained, thus books on this topic at Amazon. Heck... could be an Aspies next special interest.

have you ever trained that "unused muscle" using Lumosity or other brain-train games? I'm curious... I bought a year long subscription but haven't had time to use it daily to know if it really works

Mine used to be fine, but after age 12 or so, it began to decay. I am so absent minded...a situation I'm often in is where I'm looking for an object, move into another room, and then suddently not remember what I was looking for.

It depends with me.... My long term memory is amazingly precise to the smallest details... and my short term memory depends on my interest... and my awareness memory... or like instant memory... how every you would think of it as... is pretty horrible... like forgetting where my sunnies went then realizing they are still on my head... thats always catching me off guard in some way...

I do that too! It's so freaking annoying when I still can't remember half an hour later and if I ever do remember it wasn't even that great an idea anyway

No, never heard of it. One more to add to my 'check it out' list.

I noticed that myself and members of my family have very good long term memory but poor short term memory. I've also noticed it in others that had aspie traits. My short term memory was terrible for years, accentuated by alcohol and other drugs. That said, even during this time, my long term memory was still incredibly good.

I certainly am lousy at remembering things I'm not interested in but lack of interest is no requirement for my short term memory to be very poor.
I start up Google and already have forgotten why I did when it's up and running.
I go into another room and wonder what I was supposed to pick up/do there.
I ordered some books on amazon yesterday. These were (obviously) books I wanted with contents that interest me. Straight afterwards I wanted to set up a list so I would remember the titles I had ordered without having to check my account there. I couldn't remember a single title and had to view the order to copy the titles. Now I remember them easily cause now it has had time to stick.
Speaking of copying, I can only copy a couple of words at a time max when I copy a text/speech. I just don''t remember from the time I read/hear it to the time I try to write it down, and we're talking seconds here... And the only reason I do want to copy it is that it's of interest to me.

IDK if it's ADD or AS; have AS dx and suspect I have ADD too.