My brain is highly compartmentalized. I can only load one compartment at any given moment. At that moment, all of the other compartments are inaccessible.
If I try to load a new compartment, I need to "reticulate splines", which takes a long time. If I try to load a new compartment while keeping the previous one loaded also, some information will become corrupted, possibly followed by a crash.
What this literally means is:
I can focus on one type of task (hygiene, eating healthy, exercising more, feeding and walking my dog, grooming my dog, training him, cleaning the house, doing errands outside, going to appointments, working, improving mental skills (a.k.a. studying), learning about my special interest, sensory diet, relaxing...) at a time (in a day, over a week, over a couple months).
The longer I focus on a single type of task (months), the better I do. 
I am comfortable with switching to a new task at the beginning of each week. 
I can not switch tasks in one day. 
Meanwhile, I am usually neglecting all of the other tasks. And several of these tasks need to be done daily (MINIMUM TO AVOID HEALTH PROBLEMS: I need to eat and take care of my hygiene, my dog needs to eat, be walked, and be groomed; that is four different tasks). I do not know how people do it. 
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31st of July, 2013
Diagnosed:
Autism Spectrum Disorder,
Auditory-Verbal Processing Speed Disorder, and
Visual-Motor Processing Speed Disorder.
Weak Emerging Social Communicator (The Social Thinking-Social Communication Profile by Michelle Garcia Winner, Pamela Crooke and Stephanie Madrigal)
"I am silently correcting your grammar."
