Do you often lose important small objects?

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Always that why I have about six sets of keys and multiples for just about everything else. I usually find the stuff agian eventually like keys that showed up in the lawn mower bag 3 years after I lot them

Yeah, I'm always losing little things. That's one of the reasons why I was so against getting a mobile phone when my parents pushed me to get one. I'm always forgetting little things as well, like not taking my wallet or lunch when I'm going out.

Last month I lost my medical card. I found it this week. About three weeks ago I lost my i.d. which I also found this week. About two weeks ago I misplaced my keys. I haven't found my keys yet but I'm sure I will find them sooner or later.

What I want to know is, "Where in 'H' 'E' double hockey sticks do all my pens go?!"

I bought a ridiculous amount of pens. Enough to supply your average mid-size corporation. Then I placed the pens in convenient places all around the house. The types of places you'd look for a pen. I can now only find one or two pens!! ! Why is that? Do these things evaporate or something?! Is there some little pen goblin that breaks into your house while you're sleeping and steals them? If there is a pen goblin, I bet he gets his pay checks signed by the Bic Company. He steals your pens. Gives them to Bic. They turn around and sell them to you all over again. It all makes sense now.

Wallet: I've got a dog choke collar connected to it. If it weren't for that chain, I would have left it on the counter of some store a loooong time ago.

Watch: I have it on 3 perpetual alarms so if I lose it I'll be able to easily find it... at 8:50am on weekdays, and at 12pm and 8:30pm on weekends.

Sunglasses: I bought several pairs of cheap Walmart sunglasses. I've got two pairs left. After I run out I'll stock up again.

Keys: I can't keep them in one place, so I have several places where I put them. Each place is very visible so I find them relatively fast.

Cell phones: I've lost two. Calling your cell phone when you lose it in your house works good but not so well when you lose it outside of your home. I bought two cell phones off of ebay for $12. It's only a matter of time before the second one will be needed.

"Yes" would be an understatement.

i get easily distracted, so if i am doing something and the phone rings or i get distracted. i will start to forget things as my mind becomes totally focused on the distraction, then when i get back to what i was doing, i need time to decopress and re-focus and then i find that i have lost a lot of the things i had in front of me...they just dissapear, then i get angry and then i lose myself.

at work i will say to someone at a petrol station.."where am i" to orientate myself and give myself a map bearing....nt;s think this i soooo funny...."where am i " they reapeat laughing at me.
i always lose myslef but that isnt a little thing, hell i weigh 90 kilos.....

sigh......what was this topic about again?

i am forever losing and forgetting stuff, keys are a biggie, as are my wallet and my glasses.

glasses are a stiipd design. mine are thin so when i lose them i can hardly see them when they are right in front of me!

jammie

I thought I'd have learnt to remember all the little things by now. When you're young it's OK, but at 20 you end up coming across as ridiculously disorganised.

I'm not so bad at using keys, phones and stuff, though i think i used to be, i have a lot of habits to keep track of stuff, as i very easily become ditracted and could potentionaly loose things. I keep my stuff( keys, purse, phone) in one place at home. I keep them in my jean pockets when i'm out and check for them regularily. I alwasy check bus seats, cafe tables etc. to make i haven't left things behind. These habits mean i don't loose the important things.
However, i often walk into a room carrying something, put it down and then promptly loose it, that happens all the time, it drives me mad!! !

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I lose my glasses often

I lose my purse - well, not lose, but forget where I put it; my Mum always finds it soon enough - all too frequently but fortunately I hardly ever send anything so I have no need for it. I don't lose keys, but forget to pick them up on my way out. Pens are annoying - I'll hunt high and low only to find that they were under a book right in front of my nose. ID cards and mobile phone - I dont have either so I'm OK for the mo. when I do get one of either/both I might be hopeless. Probably will be. And yes, I put stuff down, turn my back and then find that I can't for the life of me remember where I put said stuff. It's become a standing joke at school.

Yes I do lose things like keys, documents, CDs, cards.... I’m very absent-minded. I have succeeded though to be a little more careful as years go by

Keep in mind that it does happen to most people, not only aspies.

It doesnt happen to me too often. My room is an "organized" mess, I know where everything is supposed to be and it is usually there.

I know it's just not AS.

A part of AS is often viewed as a executive functioning disorder,(e.g. poor time management, poor organization skills, so on and so on), so that's why I had the poll.

yep i lose all sorts of stuff everyday

I used to be really bad about losing stuff, particularly books, umbrellas, pens, hair rollers and barretts, especially the white ones. In 7th grade, I lost my science textbook which happened to be the very class where the teacher checked books every single day. If you didn't have your book with your name in it to prove it was your's, you got sent to the office. If you didn't pay for a new one, you got suspended. I was so terrified of telling my mother I cut school rather than go without my book. I eventually lied and said I needed money for a PE uniform which she gave me. I'm suprised, to this day, I never got caught. I vowed after that to never lose anything else that valuable again.

I keep every personal belonging I have in its own place. I never put something in the place it doesn't belong because if I did, I would be all day searching for it. Keys go on the floor next to the couch as does my purse. The hat to my uniform stays in my purse so I don't leave without it. So do my ID, money, credit cards and at least one pen.