My limitless desire for information always gets hindered by my very limited memory.

There’s nothing like the ADHD experience of going to google something and immediately forgetting what you were going to search so you have to look through your recent apps to find whatever triggered the thought, but then get distracted in the apps, then just rinse and repeat.😩

@adhd #ADHD #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurodiverse #neurodivergence #ADHDmemes

  • ddh@lemmy.sdf.org
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    11 months ago

    One trick I use for that is to say it out loud, so I can access it in my echoic memory. Echoic memory doesn’t last very long, but sometimes long enough!

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    11 months ago

    That’s the beautiful thing… you get to enjoy learning something then you’ll forget it and get to enjoy learning it again!

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      11 months ago

      A lot of the time, I start the re-learning process, only for my long-term memory to kick-in halfway through, and then I get annoyed because I “oh, I’ve read all of this before, it’s boring now”

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        11 months ago

        You know the next sentence, but you don’t understand the concept. You’re bored of the familiar text, so you skip a few sentences, find out they are completely foreign, go back, realize you forgot the context or to actually read so you end up re reading the whole paragraph. But this time, the effort to concentrate takes the soul out of your body. And that’s how you spend a full workday reading a one page document, while feeling burnt out.

        And I’m not working again…

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          11 months ago

          You’re coming across as if you’re saying that all anyone with ADHD has to do is try harder and their symptoms will be gone.

          I would like to imagine that you’re actually trying to say that there are strategies that can help with improving the symptoms of ADHD and that finding and doing ones best to employ these strategies is more productive than just complaining about these symptoms.

          Unfortunately though, ADHD is a chronic neurodevelopmental condition which is characterised by its associated symptoms. These symptoms will never disappear as a result of ‘trying harder’. If that were the case then the diagnosis of ADHD wouldn’t exist.

          Simply telling someone with ADHD to put more effort in is insulting and can be quite hurtful.

          It is also unhelpful to single out those who might be awaiting diagnosis as ‘self-diagnosed twats’. Since you were quite young when you were diagnosed it’s understandable that you likely do not know what it’s like to go through the diagnostic process as an adult. The constant self doubt and imposter syndrome that nags away at you while at the same time you know that the symptom list reads like a brutally honest biography. Having others look down on you just because you haven’t yet received the diagnosis yet is very hurtful, unfair, and unnecessary.