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What is your daily routine like?

What happens if something changes in your day?

Is it possible through having no structure due to unemployment for example, that a person with aspergers could fall into a bad daily routine which is difficult to break out of?

thanks for sharing

I get up, I turn the coffee pot on. I wake my husband and kids up to go to work and school. I drink my coffee and check mail, etc. while they are getting ready. When they leave I get dressed, do my hair and makeup and start cleaning up. I straighten up, I sweep, I mop, I dust, I clean the mirrors and bathrooms, I take out the garbage, I do the dishes and put them up, I do the laundry and put it up, I make whatever phone calls have to be made, I make the beds, I let the dogs in, I put the dogs out, I thaw some meat for supper, I mix up the bread dough and let it rise, then bake it, I put together a dessert, I cook supper and serve it, I clean up after supper, I do my mending, I pick up after everybody, I take a bath and moisturize, I go to bed, I get up the next morning and do it all over again.

During the day, I look at forums or YouTube or something while I'm between chores.

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Frances

When I get too into my routines, it's hard to get out of them and I have a hard time with work when I start. But it doesn't take me long to adjust. Plus when I get into my routines at work and then my boss adds something new, I am very forgetful because it's not something into my routine so I forget. So I try and remember doing it the next day if I realize I forgot to do it. but while I was unemployed, I was all of a sudden called into work and it was a bad night and I didn't do well. I wasn't mentally prepared. But the second time it happened I did better because I had myself prepared because I thought any day now I could be working so I was mentally prepared. When I worked my last job and was laid off full time and only worked once in a while when someone call in sick, I did fine. It be unexpected when I get a phone call about once a month asking me if I can work that day and I always did fine with that.


My daily routine is like getting up, computer for a little bit, feeding my son and then myself. Computer again. Going for my walks if it's nice out and then computer again. I watch TV with it sometimes or my favorite movie. Around one or two I eat if I am hungry and around 3:50-4:00 I start getting ready for work. There are things I have been wanting to do but haven't done it because I get too stuck in my routines. Plus I want to do other things but I am stuck. I will think of plans in my head to do them and I never do it but yet when it comes to things like family, I have no problem with it because I do it. Probably because I know they are only here for a few days while other places are there all year around so I have unlimited time unless the place shuts down. Then when I finally do things at home I wanted to do, I do little bit of it and then go back to what I was doing.


If something changes, I get irritated but I learned to deal with it without having anxiety and throwing a fit but it still happens sometimes.

I'm wondering if the stereotypical view of autistics craving absolute routine is a bit misunderstood.

I may well organise things in a seemingly incomprehensible way to other people that makes perfect utilitarian sense to me and then explode and freak out if said things are moved, or have to weigh everything to the exact gram when cooking but I don't require routine in the way it is often portrayed eg

Must have cup of tea @ 10:15, tea must be stirred 3 times with the same blue spoon.
Must have lunch @ 12:45, lunch must be two slices of this exact bread with this exact filling.
Must go to bed at exactly 22:00, or the world will end.

In fact I have trouble remembering to things like brush my teeth every day and establish a routine around it.

My routine varies from day to day.

I was worried about this week because several of my routine like events are canceled due to Thanksgiving. I was worried I was going to be wandering around my house with no purpose. It hasn't been as bad as all that, although I do miss the things.

What routine? that's one of the AS symptoms I don't have.......my routine is chaos.

I feed my cat at about 7/8am. Then I eat, make my bed and brush my teeth. Choose out clothes, write to-do list, iron shirt, shower. Look at to-do list; usually says 'internet stuff' so I do that for a bit. 10am I take my pill and maybe write or read or do something that requires a lot of attention and focus. Eat lunch at 12pm. Second pill at 1pm. Might do something productive while on them. 3pm is free time - it's important because I need a time to unwind. Weekdays from 5:30-7:30pm is sci-fi TV prime time. I usually make dinner about 6/7pm, then eat and do dishes. 10:30pm is bedtime, but I usually read a few chapters to get me sleepy.

Some things I do during the day involve grocery shopping, cleaning my room, cleaning cat litter tray or giving her clean water, put out garbage, wash clothes, someone in my house catches me getting a snack and I get stuck in a conversation, and weekends are for going to gigs or doing other types of shopping and exercising; weight lifting and exploring my new neighbourhood.

This was a part of my old routine: Breakfast: two slices of avocado on toast with tomato and a sprinkle of salt. Drink water, brush teeth. Choose clothes, iron clothes, shower, etc.
I stuck well to my routine. I had to watch all my favourite TV shows at the times they were on. I would shutdown when the shows were moved into a new timeslot. I absolutely had to exercise on Saturdays. I moved it to Sunday in respect of the actual Sabbath.

6:30pm: tea (one sugar) with two White Wings Choc chip Drizzles (if my mum came back from shopping without the Drizzles I'd have a meltdown - in fact I am currently without Drizzles and am a bit melancholic), while watching Star Trek: The Next Generation.

I absolutely had to be in bed by 10:30pm or at least reading in bed. And if I stayed in bed past 9am I was a very bad and lazy person.

Being able to have a routine would be wonderful but my work schedule changes from week to week. It used to change from day to day at short notice but my one customer has finally realised that I can't cope with that at all. Unfortunately this is seen as inflexible and so I don't get enough work . In the time I'm not working my days have become an undisciplined formless mess, doing things like hanging around on Wrong Planet when I should be making lunch.

I don't have one, but I do like to do most of the same things everyday. I don't crave routine as much as I do predictability. If something's gonna happen, I need to plan it out ahead of time or I'll feel anxious.