Hi, sorry if this is in the wrong place, wasn't sure where to put it.
My dad has always been slightly spacey but more recently I have been wondering why he is the way he is.
He is quiet unorganised, even his collegues at work have commented on that, I think he has trouble ordering the jobs he does.
When looking at (for eg) a pack of photos that everyone else wants to see he will look at one and then put it down next to him, the next one he'll put at the back of the pack, the next he'll pass to the person on his left and the next to the person on his right. This drives me crazy but it doesn't seem to occur to him to pass them all in the same direction and instead they get muddled up and no one person will see all of them! (Maybe you'll think this is not a big deal but I've always found it very odd).
He gets lost incredibly easy. Particularly in hospitals or buildings like that. He will go to get a coffee or magazine and be gone for ages because he can't find his way back. A hour later he may get lost again!
Talking to him can be hard as you can only keep his attention for a matter or seconds (sometimes longer if it's very interesting). You can see his attention going in his eyes. Actually found that very upsetting growing up as it felt like he wasn't interested in what I was saying . . . still upsets me now actually. Often when talking to him and I lose his attention I have to shout to get it back, but then it goes again soon enough. Sometimes he starts a conversation himself while I am still talking (maybe i'm boring!) and will just talk over me like he hasn't heard me.
He is incredibly clumsy and puts things down on his chair and then sits on them and breaks them even though he only put them there a few seconds ago.
If he isn't sure how something works instead of thinking about it he just yanks/pokes/bashes etc and often breaks things but doesn't always notice.
He loses things all the time.
If I tell him not to do something with my dcs because it's dangerous, he'll listen, agree and then do it seconds later. I tell him again and he'll say "oh yeah" and then he'll do it again. It means he can't look after his gcs by himself which is sad. He is aware that he is like this a bit but I think he mostly just thinks he's stupid which he is not.
Thats all I can think of right now.
Thanks for reading.