Hi this is my first time here and I have Asperger's and I've noticed that even tiny disruptions completely throw me off.
For example: I was going to the gym consistently and weighing myself every Monday morning. Then the scale's battery died and they didn't replace it. I just stopped going to the gym entirely. Not because I was upset about the scale — I just couldn't figure out how to continue the routine without that one anchor point.
Same thing happens with my daily schedule. If one thing changes (a meeting moves, a class gets canceled), my whole day feels scrambled and I end up getting nothing done.
I've tried different productivity apps (Notion, Todoist, Google Calendar) but they're all built for "normal" brains that can just adapt on the fly. They don't understand that routine disruption is genuinely hard, not just annoying.
Does anyone else deal with this? And if so, have you found any tools or systems that actually help you rebuild your routine when something changes, instead of the whole day just collapsing?
Genuinely curious if this is just me or a common Asperger's thing.