I am wondering if this happens to others on the spectrum.

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This might sound like a strange question but yesterday I was looking for a certain pair of plaid boxer shorts and I knew I hadn't misplaced them in a different drawer and I searched and tore my room apart and found out I was already wearing them-has this ever happened to you-you think you lost or misplaced something and found out it wasn't actually lost or misplaced at all and right there all the time? I know the example might be considered strange but it did actually happen-so please no making fun.

I once was looking for a can opener to open a can of canned fruit. I looked EVERYWHERE. It turned out that was the first thing I took out and I'd put it next to the can, then I got a bowl. When I cam back with the bowl, I did see the can, but not the can opener, and I go back to get it but it's not there anymore. It wasn't until my mother pointed to where it was that I saw it.

I've done something similar more than twice before. Now, whenever I can't find something, the first place I look is my hand.

yes. The day before yesterday I was looking for the pants I wanted to wear to work and was panicking because I couldn't find them anywhere and I was going to be late. So I went to the side of the bed where I had laid out my top and stockings and there were my pants- I had already laid them out

This happens to me frequently. I think something is "lost" then I find it right where it is supposed to be and somehow I looked right at it without seeing it. Have had many a meltdown due to this. Strangely, the opposite is also true for me. If I or someone else drops a small object on the ground, I can "set" my eye for the image and find it. I once lost a small, black earring in a gravel parking lot and found it this way. Recently, the makeshift antena on my car fell off on a 14 mile trip on a dirt road. I discovered it when I arrived at my destination. On the way home I "set" my eye for the image of it and found it 7 miles later!

I did that with my purse just the other day. I had it on my shoulder and was looking around the house for it. I couldn't find it anywhere and needed to get going. Finally, I figured out it wasn't lost.

Do this all the time with our hairbrush. It's incredibly frustrating.

My cell phone's always in my hand but I look for it everywhere and then have a panic attack thinking its lost. I do this a lot. I forget certain things very fast because I am absent-minded most of the time.

spent 30 mins looking for my keys yesterday when they were in my pocket...

This morning I was getting very upset because I couldn't find my keys. Turns out I put them in my pocket about 5 minutes earlier.

This happens with me looking for my glasses when I am already wearing them.

This happens to me all the time. Especially when I'm in a rush.

Happens to me all the time! As an example, one time I thought I lost my iPod Nano, only to find that it had slipped underneath the printer on my computer desk!

Seems to happen, quite often.... - More often if stressed!

Last time i did it, were two days ago. Iran around the apartment for 15 minutes, looking for my cellphone.
When i actually "found it" i was on the top of three CD's where i had been looking directly at it at least two times, without seeing it!! !

At another occasion, i asked my wife if she'd seen my carkeys, while actually having them in my hand!
- At least she don't get a laugh of me that often any more, recognising the the troubles i'm having...

It does happen to me occasionally, but I think it happens to NTs a lot as well. Probably more than those on the spectrum, too. I have a tendency to put things in a place that makes logical sense or at least in a consistent place. A lot of NTs just throw stuff around anywhere, I do it when I don't have room for something to go where it logically should but it always makes me tense; my mother does it as a matter of course...

Pretty much everyone has made this mistake before, especially those with poor short term memory. Or anyone that gets really drunk and puts down their phone, only to seconds later check their pocket and think they lost their phone.
Or someone that is sleep deprived or had bad sleep.

So, don't feel bad. Humanity will eventually learn how to use the so-called human area of the brain.