# Do you suffer from Auto-Pilot's Syndrome?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suffer-from-auto-pilots-syndrome/814679>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 23, 2018, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suffer-from-auto-pilots-syndrome/814679 "2018-05-23T13:57:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suffer-from-auto-pilots-syndrome/814679/21 "2018-05-24T04:30:37Z")

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> [@Grrr](#):
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> My biggest offenses happen when I’m at work. But I wont talk about those since you have to work there to understand what I’m talking about.

Something like this happens to me every two or three days at work.

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**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suffer-from-auto-pilots-syndrome/814679/22 "2018-05-24T05:14:57Z")

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Awhile back I was using the toilet at work, which is gender neutral. As I’m washing my hands I notice that the seat is up, which is weird because I fixed it when I was through…taking a dump…so, yeah, It seems I unfixed it, on autopilot.

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**Author:** ![anomalous1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@anomalous1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anomalous1)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suffer-from-auto-pilots-syndrome/814679/23 "2018-05-24T05:16:15Z")

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Nope, have OCD. Autopilot is forever broken. Manual control on everything. Although I am starting to get to a point where I understand why people have grocery lists. I used to be able to remember every item I need or think “I’ll remember that tomorrow” and now I don’t.

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**Author:** ![thornyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@thornyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thornyrose)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suffer-from-auto-pilots-syndrome/814679/24 "2018-05-24T08:29:32Z")

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It is not a syndrome. It is not a glitch. It is a feature;

Evolutionary: Those that stopped to notice every bush and tree and flower and butterfly got eaten.

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**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-suffer-from-auto-pilots-syndrome/814679/25 "2018-05-24T19:25:54Z")

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> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#):
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> Everyone, pretty much without exception, is prone to this to some degree or another.
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> If you think you aren’t you just haven’t noticed or it hasn’t resulted in adverse consequences…yet

Yes  
Perzactly  
:smack:

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