looking at something but not seeing it

[u/Fun-Shelter345]

I don't understand why, but sometimes I'll see an object or be holding it and just not realise, like to me it feels like there's nothing there or like I can't tell what the object is. It takes me a couple seconds to actually register stuff. It happens a lot when I lose a something and it could be in my line of sight and I still can't see it. I have a similar problem with hearing; I'll be listening to my friend speak, and it almost sounds like gibberish to me for a couple seconds until I fully register it. Just to add, this doesn't happen all the time; it's just kind of random. I'm just putting this here to ask if anyone is similar to this and if there's a way to combat it.

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[u/EnvironmentalRock222]

I have severe ADHD and autism. I am permanently self aware. I think about what I’m doing constantly. I think about me listening to people. I don’t really listen. I have debilitating social anxiety though so I don’t have any friends anyway. If you’re very self aware like me, just try not to be I guess.

[u/redditsbyanka → u/EnvironmentalRock222]

Online friends are a thing

[u/redditsbyanka]

I have this sometimes. I look at something and it should be for example number 125 but I see 15 instead. Also the reason I have arrived in the wrong location at the wrong time on the wrong date so many times its not even embarrasing anymore, just me. The feeling when you are the only one in your uni course who has gone to the lesson in person when it actually was meant to be online, like 20+ times.

[u/MySocksAreLost]

For me similar thing happens with places. I think for me it's linked to fatigue.

I keep forgetting where I am, especially if the place is unpleasant. I know that I am in the place x but it doesn't make consciously sense for a while. Maybe this is more about dissociating?

I have the auditory issue that you mentioned too.

[u/sanebyday]

This happens to me ALL the time. To the point it feels like the universe itself is fucking with me. If I'm looking for something, I will double/triple check for whatever it is that I've lost in the spot it should be. I even tell myself, and others helping me look, that I know I'm probably staring right at the thing I'm looking for, and just can't see it. Sometimes, the thing is actually lost, but a lot of the time, it is actually right there, right where it should be, but literally invisible to my brain for some fucked up reason.

[u/greggers1980]

I look at my watch and have to look again to check the time