Autism and slowness

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I'm a perfectionist by temperament, which slows me down.

Any slower and I would be going backwards topic

As long as the task is eactly the same, and the steps to complete it identical, then I can be faster than average. But employment is no longer this way, and with multitasking and task switching, it is dang near impossible to complete any job related task in the time alloted by the emplyer.

I am and have always been slow at what I do. In school I finished tests last (or among the last), I was always last to finish up when we did experiments, and I did tasks slow even in subjects where I excelled. Also in other areas I’m slow, cleaning up, writing letters, you name it. I use a lot of time formulating sentences I use in writing.

I don’t know why. I can be a perfectionist in regards to some projects (especially writing). I have a hard time getting started and knowing where to start when a task overwhelms me, and if a task is boring I can’t go at it for more than a very short time before I’m off to la-la-land (and before that I’m even slower than usual). And even when doing tasks I like, I’m easily distracted, and keep losing my focus, spacing out, getting lost in thoughts.

If someone is behind me or leans over me, I lean over what I’m doing, unable to go on as long as he/she is there and also unwilling to let anyone see the unfinished product, even a teacher to whom I might deliver the paper 5 minutes later.
If I’m rushed or stressed I get even slower and can get to the point where I feel completely confused and words just stop making sense.

But once I get into hyper focus, for instance when I’m writing and have the contents ready in my mind, I can actually be quick, as long as it’s silent around me so I can reach that point.


I wonder why so many of us are like that.

But once I get into hyper focus, for instance when I’m writing and have the contents ready in my mind, I can actually be quick, as long as it’s silent around me so I can reach that point.


I wonder why so many of us are like that.[/quote]


Once I'm focused I do things much faster as well I tend to do one task at a time and not multi task. What I hate is when people disturb me when I'm hyper focused and "break the bubble" it makes me really pissed.

I'm slow, I usually fall behind in tasks easily because of it. I like things to be correct, so I don't rush, my old electronics teacher didn't mind, it wouldn't surprise me if he was on the spectrum actually. If you met him you'd understand...

Still, I tend to be ahead because my slowness is offset by my not wasting time chatting. And even when I do talk to the guy near me about computers, it's while working. Probably because I don't make eye contact, which would distract the NT's from the work.

I've always been slow with doing things, I can't rush and HATE to be rushed. If people try to rush me I'm all over the place and I'm like "Stop rushing me!! ! Just wait a min PLEASE!!" Any project I have to do is done slowly because I can only do things right if it's at my OWN pace, so because of that some things at school like when we had to sew cushions in year 7 I barely reached half way and things like essays and tests are always hard to do.

I'm always the last one out of the classroom for some reason, I can start packing my things away at the same time as everyone else but still be the last one out the door. When I was at primary school it would often take me the whole break time to finish my dinner and it took me forever to get changed for PE.

I have no sense of rush and being rushed just stresses me out and doesn't get anything done quicker.

I try to get round this by doing things way way in advance, like getting my bus pass out of my purse while I'm walking down the street so I don't have to fumble around when the bus gets there and keep everybody waiting.

Another edit: not only do I do things so but I process everything slowly as well, every reaction is slowed down to varying degress. I often miss what people say because even though I've heard something I haven't taken anything in and it takes some seconds so I'm always saying "what". I can't do mental arithmatic to save my life for this reason. It takes a while to think of comebacks in sarcasm sessions and I'm often just listening to all these insults and jokes flying around at the speed of light and I can't keep up with them.

tl:dr IM JUST REALLY SLOOOOOOOOOOOW

OMG I can't keep adding things so I'll make another post. There's so many posts I agree with and reasons for my apparent slowness.

Oh f**k it: WHAT EVERYONE ELSE SAID ^^^

It takes me a long time to do things. I agree with a lot of people on here about perfection and making sure things are ''done properly''
A lot of the time I tend to go into my own world and think about random things which also slows me down.....................

my learning is slow even though im a fast thinker im a basic level to understand things but were all different