Is this autisim???

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I started a new job about a month ago. It wasnt until the very weekend before the Monday I started that I finally admitied to my self that I had this. I had always known but just denied it, long story for another post.

My question is this. . . For the past few days I have just been completely running out of brain! It becomes almost impossible to do my job. I daze off into nothingness and catch my self in long blank stares into the wall. I cant keep track of anything and am basically starting to have another shutt down. Yesterday after I got home I just fell asleep on my bed the etier day and night untill I had work this morning. I cant accomplish ANYTHING when I get home. Its alls I can do to muster the ability to do my job at work!

I drink my coffee in the morning, take some Alpha Brain, lift weights and charge into work ready for the day but I feel like I just cant handle it after even a few hours.

Today it got so bad I had to leave early. No one at work knows my problem, I just told them I had to leave.

My question is weather this problem is autism or not? I have dealt with this my entire life and always just thought it was blood sugar or some other such excuse. I have not had a regular long term job for more than a few month in my enite life. I have two other jobs besides my day job and own to companies of my own but I have zero ability to handle my responsibility with those jobs when I get home from work.

I don't get it...
Do you have autism and are asking if this is part of it OR you don't know if you are autistic and are asking if this constitutes autism?

Ye, it's a common problem with autistic people and why it's so difficult for many of us to hold down full time jobs - it's also the reason it is so important to match autistic people up with jobs that connect with their personal obsessive special interests, so they can remain focused.

I can't stay mentally focused on tasks that hold no interest for me. Hell, half the time I can't get focused on things I want to do, much less things I don't.

Wow, a day job plus four additional income-producing activities, I think that would strain almost anyone. Even a person with excellent time-management and executive-functioning abilities.

One thing I might do is to keep a short notepad to keep track of tasks and also to write things down, 'okay, may have wished I had more time, but what it is, is what it is' So, short de-stressers, the goal of getting some of my stress onto paper. But also non-embarrassing. So, if I leave it on a desk and someone else reads it, no big deal.

And also, if you can, maybe get there ten minutes early. So, get there early, leave ever do slightly early, like maybe five minutes or three minutes. And maybe take a short break every two hours, something like this.

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My own personal view is that the Asperger's-Autism Spectrum is:

1) intense intellectual or artist interests,

2) patchy social skills,

3) sensory issues,

4) stimming (often part of the solution!)

5) (maybe) meltdowns or sensory overloads.

And I say my own personal view because DSM really gives short shift to sensory issues.