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TV Remote

Kitsune

Does anyone else have specific places for items to be stored and find it really frustrating when other people in their household don’t put things back in the specific place and as a consequence of that the item gets lost?

So our TV remote lives in a little slot between some books on the top shelf of one of my bookcases in our lounge. Except today it isn’t there! My husband has misplaced it, again!!! And he’s at work so I can’t get him to locate it. This annoys me on so many levels. Firstly, it’s half term and I could really use the TV as a back up to occupy the children. Secondly, if he just put it back where it goes after he’s used it then it wouldn’t get lost! Thirdly, he is a repeat offender of losing the TV remote, previous places that it has eventually been found include the kitchen, our bedroom and the garage, I simply do not get the logic of taking the TV remote to those places, just simply leave it where it belongs and all will be well! 

Rant over!

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  • I will lose anything and find it very difficult to put things back where I get them from.

    Something can be on its own on an empty desk and I cannot see it.  It can be right in front of me and it doesn't register and I can spend a long period of frustration looking.  I can be using something and then it just 'goes missing'.

    A radio programme several years ago said that this was due to the brain not registering the object and therefore it appeared invisible for a period of indeterminate length.  There is a word for this condition and it is similar to not being able to recognise faces another thing which I find very difficult.

    Putting things away means I forget where I have put them.  And then causing a mess looking for them when I want them again.  Or even purchasing more of an item I know I have because I need it and cannot locate it.

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  • I will lose anything and find it very difficult to put things back where I get them from.

    Something can be on its own on an empty desk and I cannot see it.  It can be right in front of me and it doesn't register and I can spend a long period of frustration looking.  I can be using something and then it just 'goes missing'.

    A radio programme several years ago said that this was due to the brain not registering the object and therefore it appeared invisible for a period of indeterminate length.  There is a word for this condition and it is similar to not being able to recognise faces another thing which I find very difficult.

    Putting things away means I forget where I have put them.  And then causing a mess looking for them when I want them again.  Or even purchasing more of an item I know I have because I need it and cannot locate it.

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  • in reply to Trainspotter

    I guess everyone has different ways of doing things and everyone has strengths in different areas. It must be very frustrating to always lose things?

    I think what you’re describing about not being able to recognise an object that’s right in front of you, is visual agnosia, it very commonly co-occurs with prosopagnosia (difficultly recognising faces) which you say you also find difficult. Do you find that that presents a lot of difficulties in everyday life?

    My visual memory and perception is very good. I’m the person that would see the needle in the haystack. I’ll also put my hands up to being completely obsessed with everything in the house having a specific place where it belongs, I have always been like that. It’s probably the reason why, even after having an ABI I never lose things (apart from the odd cup of coffee being temporarily misplaced for a few minutes, but I think most mums of young children are guilty of that from time to time) because everything has its specific place so I know exactly where to find anything.

    It must be terrible to forget where things are if you put them away