Being interrupted/reminded

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Are you exceptionally agitated at being interrupted from something you're doing? Especially if it's something you've already planned, at least to yourself?
Have you ever been planning to do something, and so you're doing everything you planned you would do beforehand, and then you get interrupted by someone before you get to the main task only to find they were "reminding" or "demanding" you get to work on the thing you were planning to do?

I find myself continuously making my own sort of inner schedule, that I don't want anyone to comment on, or tell me to do anything otherwise. Any interruptions or someone who doesn't think I'm going to do what I've planned to do throw me entirely off, make me really angry and I have to redo my entire "schedule" to incorporate something to get rid of my irritation and get me back on track.

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For example, one night I determined to do this the next day:
Wake up before noon and get some caffeinated tea
get a little breakfast after the tea
get started on homework
stay away from computer until all of this is finished..

It sounds simple but then I woke up that morning, and my mom was using pine sol to disinfect stuff. The smell saturate the entire house, everything but my room with my laptop. I can't make tea or eat with a smell so overpowering that it makes it hard to think. Let alone do any homework.((( Note: in my room atm there is nowhere comfortable to sit or do any sort of homework. It's hurting my back as it is to use the laptop here.))))
So I changed the schedule to:
turn on all the fans and wait in my room
use laptop to look up a few things to pass the time
when smell fades, do everything as planned before, minus the tea

Soon as I go back to my room my mom comes in and says she doesnt want me onthe laptop in my room.
I explained how i couldnt go outside until the smell fades, but then she said I shouldn't use my computer until I finish my homework
My mind went into a sort of confused overload explosion because, since I made my schedule to incorporate homework, it was sooooo obvious I was going to get to it and it just seemed so annoying that she would tell me to do something I was already planning to do.

I've tried letting in other people into my schedules, but they end up just being that person to "hold me responsible for it" and remind me anyways *exasperated sigh*

This happens to me all the time, people don't seem to understand not to mess with or interrupt my inner schedule.

I get the same and it drives me nuts and sends my stress levels through the roof!

This is why I don't like living with people and prefer to spend much of my time alone. Well it is one of the reasons. People = stress and I don't mean in the typical social anxiety 'I might look like an idiot way'. The things people do just annoy the hell out of me and stress me out big time!

I have my day planned out in my head...please do not disturb!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !

I thought this was talking about when people interrupt you when you're in the middle of talking... Especially to ask a question that you're already in the middle of answering if they would just shut up for 2 seconds. That brings me right to the brink of a meltdown... But I also hate being interrupted and reminded the way you mean it in this thread. I have to map EVERYTHING out in my head, including just going downstairs from my room to the kitchen to put my cup in the sink, and if someone asks me to grab their cup on the way (literally 5 steps out of my way) it throws everything off. Or like you said, being interrupted to be reminded to do something you're already doing/ going to do in a few minutes... Just because you don't see me doing it RIGHT NOW doesn't mean I've forgotten... Wait till it's later on in the day and then if I haven't done it and I'm just sitting around.. Ask me about it and I'll go do it!