Attention to thoughts

After a brief conversation with someone, I wanted to find out about attention to thoughts in autistic people. Quite often when faced with too many options for something, say, a task, I don't know where to start, all options are shouting just as loudly as each other. I think this is the same for thoughts. I can get fixated on something insignificant which seems to shout loudly but when this shift moves to something else such as existential matters, this shouts just as loud. It does often feel like my brain is full to the brim like a room full of people chattering away. And I don't know which conversation to join. It's like I have difficulty prioritising what's a little thought or problem to what is a big thought or problem. 

I found this link really interesting but I haven't checked the references properly yet.

https://embrace-autism.com/autism-and-disorganized-thoughts/

I just wondered if anyone can relate to it or if you had any comments.

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  • Imagine: (exercise)

    you are moving house

    truck fully loaded

    superkingsize bed, sofa, superking size matress, 2computer desks, 2 wardrobes, 3 open wardrobes with shelves for books, all dismantled in parts, and tied in bundles 20 big and 60 small various sizes and content boxes are being unloaded by two helpers from a company renting truck

    plus a lot of small things without boxes, that's what happens when you run out of boxes

    hpw long does it take you to form a plan how to get it in??

    to first floor 2bedroom flat, using stairs, that are about 1m wide, where to put it inside to avoid one biig tumbled mess, 

  • Just unload the lorry into the front room like we did then spend the next two years throwing all the stuff away you shouldn't even have packed and finding a home for everything else. Haha!

    I think your analogy is interesting. Just like we have to have things in rooms and in the right place in the house, we need our thoughts in certain boxes and drawers in our head.

  • Without tje need to actively assign places. You can make it run in auto mode.

    The correct answer was: the moment we finished loading lorry and i had full list of contents

  • It was real life experience. By night i had bedroom room furnitures assembled. Including bed. Next day all other furniturrs and all was left was 10 boxes of my 3x stuff, she needed a month to unpack them

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