Is there a name for this?

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Does anyone else do this: It's always been a feature with me and people have commented on it. When you're doing something or carrying out an activity, then you get distracted (maybe have to answer a phone call or a call of nature etc.) and then when the distraction is dealt with, instead of going back to the unfinished task you were doing in the beginning, you go and start doing something entirely different, totally forgetting about the original task.

A person I used to know, who was a medical secretary in a psychiatric facility, noticed that I do it and said that she'd heard it's called 'knight's moves' in her workplace. I've searched on 'knight's moves' in the field of psychiatry, but it only comes up with information about it as a thinking pattern not an actual behaviour. Obviously the brain is the thing that control's your behaviours but it doesn't sound like quite the same thing from what I've read.

Is it a behaviour with a name, or is it just a possible consequence of AS due to finding that distractions causing confusion?

Thanks.

I call it "thread-processing." When I have a lot of things to do, I tend to work on Task A until I get to what I recognize as a stopping-point. (Often it's not what anyone else would see in that way.) Then I go work on Task B for a bit, get interrupted and jump to Task C, then back to Task A, etc.

I used to force myself to stay on one thing until it was done, but I'm much more productive when I just let my brain work the way it wants to.

I'm exactly like this.

I also tend to do the easy stuff first and then I'm left with a wall of hard tasks. It's really not helpful....

I do this too. It made work very difficult because everyone would always have to remind me to finish tasks I'd started before being forced to switch to something else. I genuinely did forget to go back to what I was doing!

This is why I never get my homework done. And it explains why I rarely finish art projects I'm working on.

Environmental distractions, sensory distractions, or sensory processing:

http://www.relatetoautism.com/index.php?subform=article&article_id=48

I'd be interested to know, those of you who have replied saying that you have this too, are you diagnosed? (I'm seeking diagnosis and interested in all potentially AS behaviours)

How many times a day I do this I couldn't count on both hands xD

is bumping a thread back up allowed?

I do this ALL. THE. TIME. Every single time I'm trying to do something, if it's not part of an obsession and I get distracted, I don't go back to it. I forget I was doing it altogether. I consider it part of the executive dysfunction issue but I don't know if that's correct.