absent-minded

I started reading adult books when I was 14. I'd take twice as long as others to read even if I could focus. Other times I'd get sidetracked into a daydream or thought or even no thought and find I didn't know what was going on. I thought that the lapses must be due to schizophrenia because I knew I had that, but I know people have different reasons.

Since it has complicated for me to get a job with these problems I have (my old employer did even have to give notice to me) I could really need a sort of written diagnos so the employment service can take consideration to this.

I remember i had a lot of trouble concentrating and staying committed to studying early this year and most of last year. partialy because i was exiting a very depressing period with lots of disorganisation, and also i didnt really know how to study professionally.

I had to re-learn how to read, take notes, and retain knowledge all over again. The best technique i found was to conciously take a few minutes to stop, sit still, and just listen to the nature sounds outside, without letting any thoughts intrude in on your head. Iff stay thoughts come in, just remind yourself to bring your mind to the here and now. When you feel an attention charge go through your eyes and ears, then you are ready to go into a "concentration zone "for about 20 minutes of only concentration on the words in fron of you, and trying to memorise them.

I definitely have more trouble understanding and remembering what people say; but if I'm trying to read in a noisy environment or studying something that isn't very interesting to me I have problems remembering what I've read as well. This caused some difficulties at school and work, especially if I had to read something quickly when it was noisy and then immediately discuss it. I might remember things that weren't interesting long enough to take a test if I read it in the quiet three or four times, or found more than one way to present the information. Mnemonics (making phrases, rhymes, and poems) seemed to work best for getting boring information to stay in my brain long enough.

On the other hand, if something I'm reading is really interesting or has a very engrossing storyline I can become totally absorbed in it and forget everything else... including to eat or sleep. This happens a lot when I'm researching my special interests. In those cases, I can remember everything I read pretty easily.

I think people with AS have more difficulty than NTs assimilating and remembering information that isn't interesting to us. Part of it might be that we aren't trying as hard when it's not our special topics; but I really do think that there is more to it than just lack of effort, and our brain actually rejects that kind of data.

Nikk2009 wrote:Since it has complicated for me to get a job with these problems I have (my old employer did even have to give notice to me) I could really need a sort of written diagnos so the employment service can take consideration to this.

Are you saying that your employer could just sack you without giving you any notice? I think that is illegal.

Nikk2009 wrote:Are peoples with asperger more absent-minded than non-aspergers?
For an example, you get a task, and you do the work wrong because you missed/didn't notice things, and that happen a lot.

I have absolutely no idea if it can be associated with asperger, but that's why I ask

Not sure about being absent minded. Believe we have a great deal of difficulty processing instructions from people and often perform the task requested incorrectly(I usually have the person repeat instructions). My mother is an avid reader of those huge novels, but when she attempts to follow instructions from a manual to work a remote controller, TV or DVD player she has a meltdown. Someone has to show her slowly how to operate the device and sometimes write plain english instructions on paper for her to reference.

I have great difficulty with reading, too slow, word for word, loose my place, can't process the message and get fatigued quickly. There must be a miss-wiring problem from the frontal lobe to the main brain in people with Aspergers IMO. Why else do many of us have difficulty with processing conversation, thought, responses etc.

Chucky wrote:

Nikk2009 wrote:Since it has complicated for me to get a job with these problems I have (my old employer did even have to give notice to me) I could really need a sort of written diagnos so the employment service can take consideration to this.

Are you saying that your employer could just sack you without giving you any notice? I think that is illegal.

I had messed everything up (since I didn't understand the tasks they told me) and they needed to restore everything I had messed up (paper work), meanwhile they didn't had another task for me so they said I could take time off from work rest of the day, and they would call me when I can came back.
They called 4 days later and said they had no more work and "sacked" me.


On my next job I got, they complained all the time that I worked slow, I had hard times to understand my tasks if someone told them verbal, I needed many short breaks, I couldn't take own responsible, etc etc.
The employer later wanted to sack me (which would take a month), but I dismissed myself at once and went home at the same day, because I was so f*cking tired of all those stupid jobs and since then I have been unemployed and just been sitting at home with my computer 15 hours each day.

It sounds very unfair to you (but I don't want to say anything about whether or not it was legal). You should try to be more communicative, Nikk, because it is highly important in the working environment. I believe that your problem there could have been resolved with better communication. Like, if you didn't understand the instructions, then all you must say is: 'I dont understand'.

Kevin

Chucky wrote:It sounds very unfair to you (but I don't want to say anything about whether or not it was legal). You should try to be more communicative, Nikk, because it is highly important in the working environment. I believe that your problem there could have been resolved with better communication. Like, if you didn't understand the instructions, then all you must say is: 'I dont understand'.

I did, they said: "Everyone else understand and manages the tasks".
I dunno however if they really followed the laws to 100%, but I don't have the energy to fuss about that.

From now I'm not going to search anymore jobs until I have a written proof that I'm not like everyone else.