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Do you often forget why you went upstairs/downstairs/into a room?
Yes 97%  97%  [ 57 ]
No 3%  3%  [ 2 ]
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03 Nov 2009, 9:30 am

Ugh! This happens to me ALL the time! I'll go to another room to do something, realizing that I could to do <something else here>, then totally forget what I originally went there to do.


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03 Nov 2009, 9:37 am

Maybe the question should be-is there anyone here who doesn't experience this frequently? :? I know it happens to everyone sometimes. I'm actually curious about whether there are any here that can focus easily on things that are the mundane day to day details of life.


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03 Nov 2009, 9:39 am

I know that making to-do lists is a helpful way to plan the day.

A to-do list when we go to another room :?: :idea: :shrug:


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03 Nov 2009, 9:43 am

Aimless wrote:
Maybe the question should be-is there anyone here who doesn't experience this frequently? :? I know it happens to everyone sometimes. I'm actually curious about whether there are any here that can focus easily on things that are the mundane day to day details of life.



Well, I figured that I wasn't the only one doing this but I didn't expect the voting numbers to be so grotesquely one sided.

I wonder if the NTs have a tough time with this one :roll:


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03 Nov 2009, 9:45 am

Blindspot149 wrote:
I know that making to-do lists is a helful way to plan the day.

A to-do list when we go to another room :?: :idea: :shrug:


haha! For me I can imagine it would be an all day long list-making affair, in which I'd be too busy making the lists to be able to get anything done in a timely manner... granted forgetfulness doesn't help me get things done in a timely manner, but it would definitely make it worse.

1. Make a list of things to do when I go into the kitchen.
2. Go to the kitchen.
3. Go back to get my list.
4. Go back to the kitchen.
5. Read my list.
6. Remember to do everything on it.
7. Sit down in the kitchen to make a list for going back into the livingroom.
8. Leave the room and forget my list.
9. Try to remember what room I'm supposed to be going into and why.
10. Remember that I made a list.
11. Go back and get the list...

Rinse and repeat, lol.


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03 Nov 2009, 9:48 am

anxiety25 wrote:
Blindspot149 wrote:
I know that making to-do lists is a helful way to plan the day.

A to-do list when we go to another room :?: :idea: :shrug:


haha! For me I can imagine it would be an all day long list-making affair, in which I'd be too busy making the lists to be able to get anything done in a timely manner... granted forgetfulness doesn't help me get things done in a timely manner, but it would definitely make it worse.

1. Make a list of things to do when I go into the kitchen.
2. Go to the kitchen.
3. Go back to get my list.
4. Go back to the kitchen.
5. Read my list.
6. Remember to do everything on it.
7. Sit down in the kitchen to make a list for going back into the livingroom.
8. Leave the room and forget my list.
9. Try to remember what room I'm supposed to be going into and why.
10. Remember that I made a list.
11. Go back and get the list...

Rinse and repeat, lol.



LMAO :help:


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03 Nov 2009, 9:22 pm

Leave it at it happens A LOT... :lol:


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03 Nov 2009, 9:41 pm

matt wrote:
I do this too.

And sometimes I will go to the store to get something and then after I get to the store and am walking to get what I need I suddenly forget what I needed. Or completely forget that there was a specific thing I needed and buy some other things, check out and go home and only remember that I was supposed to get a specific thing when I go into my home and see that I need it.

What's worse is when I am trying to bring one item into a room, and bring something back from that room:

For example if the timer goes off and tells me my food is ready in the kitchen, I might want to bring a cup to the kitchen to get some water and then bring the water and the food back to my room.

I know I should follow these steps:
  1. Get up from chair.
  2. Pick up cup.
  3. Walk to kitchen.
  4. Fill cup with ice.
  5. Fill cup with water.
  6. Scoop food into serving bowl.
  7. Get silverware.
  8. Walk back to bedroom with food bowl and glass of water.

What happens more frequently is more like this:

  1. Get up from chair.
  2. Walk to kitchen.
  3. Forgot cup. Walk back to bedroom.
  4. Pick up cup.
  5. Walk to kitchen.
  6. Put ice in cup.
  7. Fill cup with water.
  8. Take food out of oven and scoop food into serving bowl.
  9. Walk back to bedroom with serving bowl.
  10. Forgot water.
  11. Walk back to kitchen.
  12. Walk back to bedroom with cup and water.
  13. Forgot silverware.
  14. Start laughing at how funny it is that I can't even do this right.
  15. Walk back to kitchen.
  16. Get silverware.
  17. Walk back to bedroom.


:lol:

I relate.

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03 Nov 2009, 9:57 pm

It's not just going up or down stairs for me, but for going into another room. It isn't until I leave that room that I remember why I went in there in the first place.



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03 Nov 2009, 9:58 pm

yep, all the time.

In conversation I'll have a thought in mind and if I don't execute it, I'll lose it and it may reappear randomly at some obscure time when I don't need it.

I have a poor working memory anyways; once I stepped out of my truck and went back in to get something I forgot , and then heard a 'BANG'.
I looked outside to see what the noise was and couldn't see my truck and noticed it was halfway down the block - crashed into a parked car.
(I parked halfway up on the easement and the vehicle didn't move as I exited ... it crawled off the grass)

Once I drove off without paying for gas and the police came over to remind me.


The list goes on..................



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03 Nov 2009, 11:33 pm

Ah ha! This the explanation as to why when someone tells me to go get something I end up, upstairs and think "why am I here?"

So it goes like this,

mom says "get such and such with x, and y"
go up stairs
wonder why i'm here
go to bedroom and go on my laptop
mom yells upstairs wondering why I'm not downstairs yet with such and such, x, and y.
go get stuff
bring it downstairs to mom.

or mom never calls and then just plays the guilt trip toward the end of the day when she's mad at me and I apologize, but this happens so much that she doesn't believe me anymore. 8O


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03 Nov 2009, 11:59 pm

I did that yesterday, before class. I got up, looked around, asked out loud "why did I get up?", and proceeded to walk down the hallway. I ended up in my professor's office and completely forgot that I had another class. I remembered about an hour later. I'm blaming the clock... it was not set back an hour, but really I just forgot. Then two of my classmates walked in and said "Oh. There you are".
I'm actually taking this as a step in the right direction. I forgot about school because I was talking. That's not something I would usually do. I just have to not do it again.


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04 Nov 2009, 12:10 am

I've done it before quite a few times.


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