"Asperger's and scheduling"

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http://www.examiner.com/article/asperge ... scheduling

Seems kind of simplistic to me...any thoughts?

I'll often have everything planned out - such as the monthly budget or some such thing - and then something unexpected happens, and as the article says, absolutely everything for me is thrown off kilter.

I'll often have everything planned out - such as the monthly budget or some such thing - and then something unexpected happens, and as the article says, absolutely everything for me is thrown off kilter.

For me, that's actually pretty accurate. I have a hard time budgeting time, and a hard time being OK with "good enough," "done enough," and "accomplished enough."

The one thing that has helped me is to learn that it's not whether I have it all done or not that is of paramount importance. It's "Did I get the urgent things done?? Did I leave time to do the important things?? Is it MORE DONE than it was before??"

I have done better since I learned to accept that, at the end of the day, something will always be undone, and it will always have to be done again tomorrow. The important thing isn't clockwork perfection. The important thing is to do the next thing, and just keep doing.

This should help me a bit. My counselor has recommended to me that I make a schedule of things that need to be done and when, but I'm having the hardest time trying to figure out what should go on there. It doesn't help that I have ADHD in addition to the Aperger's. And procrastination is a bit of a problem for me...

I can deal with schedule changes as long as I still know the schedule and exactly what the changes are. If I'm doing a different TKD class, that's fine, as long as I know which class I'm now doing and everything else on the schedule. Not knowing the schedule or not knowing what the changes are is very bad.