Well, I do have a diagnosis. I appreciate you providing the insightful take on the process though. I just thought this was another instance of me just being forgetful.
Hard to de-condition myself from thinking about myself in a neurotypical fashion and recognise my limitations are real.
I can’t say a strong yes since I’m not a professional, but it’s common to me too. Thinking about that from a programming perspective, we all have short-term memory (e.g. RAM in PCs) where we write tasks, things, impressions we need now. It’s limited in volume\blocks, so when we push one another thing in, it takes something else’s place, and past things inevitably gets overwritten, unless they went the long-time memory road. What’s left are traces and parts beyond recovery, usually a saved meta log of your thoughts\intentions, some unique emotions and visions, or something that you saved in another sources (e.g. you interlink where you lost your keys by remembering what other thing you did at the moment). You comb these together and construct either a list of timestamps or a blurry 3d scene in motion of significant actions and details, and work from here.
It is, as I know, natural to everyone. It becomes an ADHD thing when inputs are that frequent you don’t stop overwriting important stuff with first, second, third thing you now focused on, or try to reactualize lucky survivors by writing all your memory with them.
I haven’t thought much about that when my life was slow and boring, but as it got to it’s speeds now, the rhytm I’m actually thrive in intellectually, losing things or forgetting stuff becomes too much apparent, compared to my more NT colleagues.
Take it as my own personal perspective and nothing else.
Well, I do have a diagnosis. I appreciate you providing the insightful take on the process though. I just thought this was another instance of me just being forgetful.
Hard to de-condition myself from thinking about myself in a neurotypical fashion and recognise my limitations are real.
Hehe, I didn’t get it from your comment.
I can’t say a strong yes since I’m not a professional, but it’s common to me too. Thinking about that from a programming perspective, we all have short-term memory (e.g. RAM in PCs) where we write tasks, things, impressions we need now. It’s limited in volume\blocks, so when we push one another thing in, it takes something else’s place, and past things inevitably gets overwritten, unless they went the long-time memory road. What’s left are traces and parts beyond recovery, usually a saved meta log of your thoughts\intentions, some unique emotions and visions, or something that you saved in another sources (e.g. you interlink where you lost your keys by remembering what other thing you did at the moment). You comb these together and construct either a list of timestamps or a blurry 3d scene in motion of significant actions and details, and work from here.
It is, as I know, natural to everyone. It becomes an ADHD thing when inputs are that frequent you don’t stop overwriting important stuff with first, second, third thing you now focused on, or try to reactualize lucky survivors by writing all your memory with them.
I haven’t thought much about that when my life was slow and boring, but as it got to it’s speeds now, the rhytm I’m actually thrive in intellectually, losing things or forgetting stuff becomes too much apparent, compared to my more NT colleagues.
Take it as my own personal perspective and nothing else.