Autistic Hyper-Focus

I am very good at getting tasks done. I like lists of things to accomplish and I find it extremely difficult to go to bed without finishing my list. I have spent a long time trying to figure out how it would be possible to let go of a task at the end of the day without finishing it. When I was a child, I watched my father (probably autistic) do the same kind of thing. Once he had started a project, nothing would stop him. It could be full dark, three a.m. and he…