Published on 12, July, 2020
Whenever I have to report anything to anyone and it involves more than several things, I miss out important information which means the person or organisation I am reporting the problems to do not know the full facts and the problem drags on.
I might go to a clinician and give them a list of symptoms and miss the most important things out, despite giving myself time to prepare the list, so the clinician does not have a complete picture and the problem takes longer to solve. I have many more instances of this frustrating thing. I dont want to blame autism/asperger's if it is not down to that.
Whether it's autism or not I assume it impacts your life so it would be helpful to you if you found strategies to avoid the negative impact.
It's not something I've struggled with, I tend to be the opposite, but I can imagine it being something some autists struggle with. Hopefully you can find something that helps googling around.
Thank you.
Jeez I got this wrong about myself!
At work it doesn't happen cos I prep a lot and always have all my points to hand. I'm constantly taking notes of my thoughts, and collating them. I learnt young that preparation for any meeting is 90% of the deal.
I noticed recently how a close friend that I've been talking to about a big issue in my life was not filled in on quite a few points. Recently I said I need to fill you in on the gaps. He gave me lots of soace and I talked. Next day I was conscious of how little of substance I'd said, had gone off on a tangent early, and then ended the conversatiin a bit surprised at how short it'd been. I wrote a list of key points. Yesterday I did a 3.5 hour run with him. When I checked my list I'd only filled him in on 1 of the 9 points. They're not hard to remember, they're very pertinent and salient in my mind.
So yeah, I saw I'm not good at covering what needs saying, and could see this was a pattern that had become normal to me and so invisible.