My executive dysfunction strikes again

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I took a book with me and kept it in a plastic bag (which I was also going to use for groceries). But at some point when I was in the public transit system, I failed to pick it up, now it's lost.

This is problematic, because the book is checked out on interlibrary loan (which is where the library "loans" a book from another library system so you can check it out), and the replacement fee is over $100.

I tried going back to lost & found, but I got there a few minutes too late after it closed. So I guess I gotta go tomorrow, and find someway to manage the uncertainty of the situation.

It may be a good idea to never check out a book from the library again, if I can't keep up with it. I wish more books were digitized.

You're not as bad as me, I left a library book in a hotel once.

Executive function issues are one of my biggest problems. However, an NT friend of mine once lost a library book.

Sure, because I could have only had this problem once, lately... [/sarc]

Whoo! Was able to get it at the lost-and-found.

Yay!! !
One of the best feelings is to find that lost thing!

My biggest problem with executive functioning is getting myself to focus on things that I'm not all that interested in. Whenever I sit at a computer, I feel like doing nothing else besides spending hours researching a topic that interests me, and it's very hard to get myself motivated to do other things.

I also misplace things frequently, especially when it's something that I usually don't keep track of in my daily routine. And then when my mom cleans the house every month, all hell breaks loose, and I spend hours looking for things.

I didn't mean to upset you. I apologize. Though I have only lost a library book once, I have lost others things many times.

I've lost things more than once:

-I've left my calculator in the library on campus

-I left my iPod in the public library

-I left another iPod in a pizza restaurant

-I left at book at my grandparents' house

-I left my phone in the bathroom

-I left my notebook on a table at a restaurant

-I have left many umbrellas on public transit

And the list goes on and on.

At least you were able to get these things at the lost and found, I rarely get things back that I lose. I don't usually check the lost and found anymore because things I loose usually stolen. Theft is a big problem at my college. There are signs everywhere to keep track of your belongings because of reports of theft.

My house is on the market so I know exactly what you mean about losing stuff. I can't tell you how many times I lose something once a showing is announced. I have to hide all my valuables and many times I hide them so good that I end up hiding them from myself. One time I lost my mom's camera for about 3 months and then eventually found it in my closet where I had looked many times over ...

Awesome. I watched a documentary of the lost and found system of the London transit and they have this whole building of workers itemizing and storing all these lost items of everything imaginable. They go to some pretty great lengths to reunite lost items with their owners. Glad you were able to get your book back.

Executive dysfunction is my greatest difficulty when it comes to Asperger's. I misplace and forget things all the time. My attention span and working memory are terrible.