[RSmithOpt]

I understand the disorder too. Though very sociable for the most part, I myself find myself mentally wandering in social settings sometimes. I can concentrate well on a lecture or something technical, written or oral, but there are times I don't have a clue about what's going on in a social setting because my mind is caught up with something else. It's like being in the center of something and trapped and looking out. I guess it's the way a I process things into the brain. Sometimes, I never even stop to think what another person may be actually thing or feeling. I'm just focused on one thought or subject they have brought up. Those are the days when my brain is busy processing 10-50 sometimes unrelated thoughts at the same time in a 5 minute period. I just figure that it's wasted energy to try and guess at what all someone may be thinking, body language, etc.

Just say want you mean and get on with it!

I can remember dates, numbers and facts to a tee; however, I only remember conversations in a general sense...not exact words, tones of voice, body language, what they were wearing, etc. I've seen lots of movies, but I couldn't tell you a lot about who all was in them, the lines, what the main characters wore in a scene unless it was a really good film (i.e. Shawshank Redemption, Tombstone, etc.)

DAMN! This made my afternoon! Glad to hear I'm not the only one that's screwed up!!.

[annyokie]

Not to pry, but my husband and I both have minds that run a hundred miles an hour while it seems (to us) that everyone else usually runs at about 35 MPH.

I drank a lot when I was younger so I could inversely Keep up with the slower crowd.

[PurVirgo]

I know what you mean. I cannot use the excuse "I forgot" a date, a number, time, a face, or an event... because I remember them perfectly.

LOL - the problem comes when it's putting faces, events, circumstances, etc with them. I'm hopelessly lost.

I went to a casino and showed my ID to the guy (I'm pretty young). He asked me to recite my driver's licence number.

I did.

Perfectly.

Only it was a driver's licence I held in another state, almost 6 years ago.

Talk about a faux-pas. Especially when I argued with him that it was my license number.