Inconsistency frustrations

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I don't know if this is ASD or ABI but there are times when I suddenly can't remember how to do a simple task that I've known how to do umpteen times previously.
For example, I had to change a tyre on my bicycle and I couldn't remember how to release the brake callipers to get the rear wheel off.
Yet I've done this countless times.
I had to google it.
I also tend to do things out of sequence, a lot. (I suspect this is more due to ABI)

Has anyone else had this experience?
It is beyond frustrating.

Yes. After the last burnout I was hardly able to do things. Sometimes I could if I was not in what I call "The fragile stage".
Today I hit the fragile stage as a result of the stress caused by earing of anoter lockdown because I use the car to de-stress. (Though I don't de-stress so much if I have to drive to many places like taking my Mum to deliver presents etc as somehow I get stressed doing that or going shopping etc... ).
But anyway... The fragile stage I feel fragile and can find gripping things like cups or holding things with my hands a problem. I have to hold cups by placing my lower finger underneath. I often drop this tablet as I think I have it but then it slips out my hand. I also get this when stressed... (Anxiety? Sometimes these overlap so I can't tell which is which as feelings can be hard to tell).

Also to add to this, during the fragile stage while having burnout (And I have had many times since such as today), I would get complete moments where I would stand there not knowing "How" to walk. I had for a moment completely lost my memory of to walk. I would then have to think to put one foot out forward and decide which one, and then take a brave act of faith and do it and then I would be staggering like Bami until my body caught up and learned how to walk again.

Also was find steering and braking and clutch control etc, but I and moments when I forgot how to select the right gear (A manual stick shift) and was hearing grating while I was accidently selecting reverse etc. This only happened with the walking and the gear selecting during and for the first few months after I had hit the last two burnouts.

Yes this happens to me. I forget how to do simple things, or I forget words. I generally chalk this up to symptoms of my neurological crap, but maybe it could be attributed to ASD? I'm not sure what ABI is.

When I moved here, I was quite traumatized and stressed. It was years before I noticed some obvious things about the house, such as which screens fit which windows, which was the hot tap in the laundry, and why there were some built in shelves - their frame had held a window before another room was added. These days, my attention span is shot from on-line life, so I can't even restore my first computer.

I have ASD and ADHD this will happen to me time to time. Usually if I am distracted by other thoughts or anxious about something.

Yes.
It's what I've been dealing since around puberty.
It became more frequent and very apparent when I had a job -- complete with witnesses and accounts of said inconsistency.



I don't know what exactly caused it, only speculations.

Mine could be hormonal with sensitivities and sets of triggers for all I know.
It might be just the old news yet still unresolved issues of stress and sleep, exacerbated by other factors.



Based on the OP's history as far as I know, ABI may mean 'Acquired Brain Injury'.

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^ Thank you, that makes sense

Hi, Raleigh! It's nice to see you posting again.

Living with a spouse with dementia has taught me to view losses of practical knowledge compassionately - in both him and myself. He has better and worse days, and so do I.

Often it's not so much not knowing how to do something; it's more a sense of "I have to do A and B and C and D before I even get started on this task" and then just giving up. I do notice I am allowing my sense of being overwhelmed, to make me more and more disabled. I use a lot of help from others, and sometimes the main thing to do is to ask them to help me in a specific way. Other times, talking out loud or silently about the steps helps me. Or self pep talks: "C'mon, you can do this." And still other times, if I am slipping into my habit of multi-tasking and it subverts my mental function, it's "Just do one thing at a time!"

I usually remember things once I learn them. I occasionally do this with passwords/passcodes, especially if they're just numbers. I might remember the order to hit the keys but be unable to type the numbers on a keyboard with a different layout. This mainly happened with my lunch code at school.

This all sounds so familiar to me. I’ve been trying to remember how I cook Yorkshire pudding. If I don’t access the state computer systems I have to use - there are now three totally different ones - I can’t remember the steps to get on. Some things I do just by muscle memory. If my muscles forget I don’t have any idea how to proceed.

Ever since I broke my ankle, I no longer know how to use that foot/leg. I can’t remember how to get in and out of a canoe, for example.

I have had some success in talking to myself, or out loud, the steps of the process I’m trying to complete.

Yes, I forget how to do tasks that have a lot of steps and tasks involving actions that I basically imitated without fully understanding what I was doing.

I think that sometimes I can't properly learn tasks because they are presented as a whole rather than broken down into steps I can digest one at a time. So it seems that inappropriate teaching methods are the problem.