Trouble making a decision immediately

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Do you find when your gicen a choice and have to make a decision, the crucial ideas that go through your head to be able to determine the decision don't always come at once- the take time to go through- as a result you find you almost need several hours or even days to make a decision your 100% confident that is the right one for you? That is we me. I find this inorfatnation that I get immediate is only some information and the rest comes later like in waves. I often find my self making the wrong decision or a decision I regret later because I was able to fully able think out the decision yet. I find this makes working at a job hard sometimes or anything where your being forced to immediately have make a decision or an opinion on something. Do you find this to be the case with you too?

Yup.

I take waaaaaay to long to make a decision. Welcome to executive dysfunction a common occurance on the spectrum.

When making crucial decisions I find this to be an advantageous trait of our mental disorder. However, when making decisions at restaurants at which I've never been people around be are always annoyed.

When my relatives asked me what I wanted for Christmas this year, it took me a lot of time to decide (3 days, to be exact).

It took lots of practice but I've gotten much better at prioritizing decisions. And figuring out ways of quickly making decisions when it is more important to be fast than "right."

For instance, menus are often laid out to make it easy to find popular items. I'll pick something immediately and then look through the menu to see if there is anything better.

Similarly, internet search engines also make it easy to find out what is popular. Rather than look at all the options for something like a refrigerator, I'll just a look at a few popular options and make a decision.

I have a hard time making decisions about certain things and tend to dwell on them for a long time, even for the smallest things. Then sometimes I feel guilty for no reason when I should not, it's weird to explain.

I occasionally have that problem. I used to have a harder time making decisions thou due to OCD but that's a different issue.

Trying to decide what to order off the menu, trying to decide what brand to buy at the grocery store (or any store), trying to decide what to have for dinner, trying to decide what homework to do first, trying to decide where to go, when to go etc etc etc, yeah I do have trouble making decisions. They are better though compared to when I was younger.

I really take my time making decisions. Too much time.

I always think about things carefully before I decide something, which rather irritates some people.

Been thinking all day on how to respond to this question.

Usually, I try to pre-decide things or follow my decision making rules. This permits me to make a quick informed decision. Not so good, when something comes out of the blue.

Yes.