Today's Takeaway Lesson

[soc_puppet]

Shiiiit, I am super ADHD.

(Oh look, it's that lack of ability to prioritize thing that my boss has gotten on my case about before! And not being able to manage my time properly! And deciding to actually leave when I'm scheduled to leave when there's still a few things that could conceivably be done either today or tomorrow! HOW ABOUT THAT!)



Also, a fun quote from me:

"Brains: Can't reason with 'em, can't reason without 'em."

Because brains. And neurodivergence. And all of that fun stuff.

Comments

[shy_magpie]

thanks for the link, I knew that not having a sense of time passing was an ADHD thing but I didn't know that people without ADHD are able to pull up a memory based on date rather than figure out the date of the memory based on clues with in it. Kinda seems fakey that you could choose to remember a meal from 5 or 10 years ago

[izzet_bedtime_yet]

I'm pretty confident I don't have ADHD and I sure as heck can't do that. I think it's the putting the memories in sequence that differs, not calling them up?

[shy_magpie]

The meal memory test is in the article just completely baffled me, so I probably described it badly. Unless there was a wedding or something I can't imagine being able to picture a meal from an arbitrary year. Maybe if I could look up events that happened in that year.

[soc_puppet]

Honestly? The other links I had to pick from were:

* Slideshow of how to deal with time seeming fake
* YouTube video of expert talking about what he calls Time Blindness (which I would probably prefer a different name for), which I haven't watched and therefore am uncomfortable linking
* Two different Tumblr posts talking about having a poor sense of linear time

I probably could've looked longer, or linked one or both of the Tumblr posts, but at that point I'd been awake for a good twenty hours already and Tired Brain decided that the first decent-looking Article With An Official Source was the best option. I was absolutely not up to watching the video, though.


Anyway. My memory has always been ludicrously good, but I absolutely organize items around a central theme more than as according to a timeline. This has also gotten me in (minor) trouble at work when we've changed the baking time and temperature on a recipe several times and I don't remember which is the most accurate or recent change, just as an example.

[shy_magpie]

I'm not doubting you, it is just strange to think that most people have their brains organized in a completely different way and I didn't even know.

[soc_puppet]

I swear, at least once a month I learn another way that neurotypical brains are super weird compared to my ADHD brain. Except for me it's usually, "Holy crap, so that's what's going on and why other people don't seem to have a problem with [x]?"