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CAN ASPERGER'S PEOPLE KEEP DIARIES?!! I CAN'T!

NAS77711

Hi, I was diagnosed in 2010 with Asperger's, at the age of 52.  I once heard a snatch of someone on the radio saying 'we Asperger's don't do diaries.'  I have appalling problems putting the appointments on the right month of the diary and the right date.  I try to join zoom lessons on the wrong day etc etc!  Does anyone know of any good books which explain about our problems with time?

  • Yeah I'm like this. Unable to keep and do a diary. When I try it's a collosal failure! I'm unprepared and unscheduled in every way lol.

  • I have trouble similar to this, my problem is I always have it a day early.. for some reason I write down the day before. I just can’t help it. 

  • I'm 51 and can't use them.  It helps me when other people use my diary to book things, but I can't.  When I see time listed out like that it makes me panic (I used to set watches 15-50 minutes fast to keep me early). When I try with diaries I ended up putting the right dates in the wrong months, or visa versa. Never managed to use a hand written one for longer than 5 days. I can't handle time, and watching it dwindle away on a watch makes me uncomfortable.  

  • I have a very imprecise relationship with time. I was very late learning to tell the time. Perhaps because I was a scientist, and had to use very complex equipment and analytical software at work, I am a complete technophobe in my personal life. I would never use any sort of digital diary. I have a pocket diary that I write all appointments and birthdays and suchlike in. I check it at the beginning of each week and then again each day if I have anything within that week. On a day that I have an appointment, I write it on the back of my hand, just to make sure.

  • I have this problem too. But I put it down to me having ADHD and dyslexia, not my autism. I found that if I use Microsoft Calendars I don’t seem to mess up as often a written diary. 

    their are no books about the specific area, but the are articles online and medical journals on how dyspraxia, Dyslexia and ADHD affect individuals ability with organisations and executive function.