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I've put a passport down in the wrong place

AddieThree

I've gone through the room it was last seen (it was supposed to go back to the place I keep it in) - it's a pain - I'll need to get another passport.  I'm kicking myself - executive function is abysmal - the anxiety and executive function seem to be mirrored.  A normal functioning person would be practical and say to themselves this is a minor setback;  I'm gutted literally - my stomach feels painful, taking more medicine.  

over the last few days i've got increasingly unhinged - going through everything and not finding it.  

feels exhausting - the anxiety gnawing into my brain.  I wake in the middle of the night:  it's been a memory from the past

  • yeah i do the same thing trainspotter i am the one in the house that puts shopping away and i think i just get bored while doing it and my mind stops pain attention and a soon as someone goes looking for something they cant find it to the point where are used to it. say they are look for a can of soup it might turn up in the fridge and cereral turns up in the freezer but it they joke that im making them look for it but it really annoyes me that i do it

  • I am always putting things down and finding them in the most stupid places.  Usually they turn up a time after (sometimes a very long time) when I'm not looking for them.  It could be linked to having other things that distract my train of thought and the 'short term mermory' of what I've done with the object is deleted from my memory (and sometimes even the fact I have even had it at all).

    I also think sometimes my eyes don't recognise what I'm looking for, my brain just doesn't register it even if it is right in front of me.  Sometimes in a supermarket the items I am looking for are right in front of me and yet I don't see them. 

    Whether this is linked to ASD I don't know but it drives others mad.  It is certainly an affliction I've had since I was born!

  • AddieThree said:

    LMW what a wonderful person you are! - the passport was in the living room - not where I'd remembered, in another place with a pile of stationary!  Thank you for problem solving for me!

    You are quite welcome, Addie. All I did was to think logically, something I know isn't easy when you are in a panic.

  • LMW what a wonderful person you are! - the passport was in the living room - not where I'd remembered, in another place with a pile of stationary!  Thank you for problem solving for me!

  • AddieThree said:

    Thanks LMW and Random.  I have original birth certificate and photocopies in a storage box.  The passport was in living room with paperwork.  I hope your both having a good Saturday.  Sending very best wishes,

    Yes, thank you Addie.

    If you're positive it was in the living room and nobody else could have moved it, it should still be in there. Are you absolutely certain you didn't put in somewhere else?

  • Thanks LMW and Random.  I have original birth certificate and photocopies in a storage box.  The passport was in living room with paperwork.  I hope your both having a good Saturday.  Sending very best wishes,

  • Hi Addie,

    I have very similar problems, have particular place for things, but sometimes seem to not put the things where they should be for whatever reason. Then when you can't find things, get so stressed for not being able to find it.

    Is there anything you can do to give you a break from searching now, and then try again later. I find that usually helps with me, only when I am absolutely exhausted, then my mind gets a bit clearer, and think of new places it could be that I totally overlooked before.

    Most things I do find, only a few things that have been lost. My original birth certificate I have never seen since I needed to get it photocopied for some application. I do have a photocopy, so may have sent the original one by accident.

    Random