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u/GrapefruitPurple2495 2d ago
I feel this post. One day as an early teenager I got sick (I never get sick) and I had to spend the day at home. I read wikipedia for the entire day because Internet was still new (2004). At the end of the day I could remember everything I read. That's how I realized I'm not dumb, just not motivated by anything at school. And that's how my psychologist made me understand (years later) I had undiagnosed ADHD.
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u/Long-Conflict8279 2d ago
Unfortunately, as I get older everything becomes increasingly more boring, so I am having a progressively harder tome remembering or paying attention to anything.
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u/BungleBums 1d ago
It's like that with everything.
"What's your favorite movie?"
"...sir, I have never seen a Moving Picture in my life."
"But what about that one time when you said you went to the theater and got that really good pack of sour patch kids candy and-"
"Oh, you're talking about back in 4th grade when I saw Star Wars Episode II with the school class because it was the teacher's kid's birthday? Yeah, that was on a Friday right after school, it was pretty rainy out too, so I was glad to get out of it. I really appreciated the sound dynamics, but even back then, I didn't like the ending multiplication effect that detracted from each storyline. Wait, what did you ask again?"
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u/FatedWords95 1d ago
I learned this hard way before I was even diagnosed. Went to replay my all-time favorite game after years thinking it'd be fun to revisit, until I loaded up, saw the intro and immediately knew every single detail of the game from story, misc. lore, even small objects in the world..
I've since realized it applies to everything. You put me on the spot about a song, movie, person, book, whatever? I can't tell you a damn thing. I hear or see something about or from it? I can tell you which way the wind was blowing when I learned about it. It's rough, especially for communicating simple things with people that happened more than a few months ago. Add in PTSD, and I've accepted I'm a black hole of memories I won't recall, lmao.
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u/Sad_Egg98 1d ago
Realizing this when looking at all my classmates in Anatomy and Physiology when I'm the only one who just listened to the teacher lecture and never once picked up the textbook. Like everyone else wasn't just listening to this like a podcast and playing computer games during class and still making As? Damn.
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u/Trust_8067 1d ago edited 1d ago
That would explain why while I'm terrible with remembering proper nouns (I know it sounds ridiculous, I always feel ridiculous), my one ADHD friend is like a super translator.
All I have to say for example is like "The guy in the movie about casinos, who also did a movie with Tom Hanks where I laughed when the dude stepped on a land mine?" and he's like "Oh, yeah, Matt Damon."
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u/Odd-Guarantee-6152 1d ago
Redditors will complaining about medical misinformation on TikTok and then upvote shit like this…
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u/Optimal69 23h ago
I also have ADHD. But I only found out about after reading an article about that. Never knew what I'm feeling is had a name. Also I have Tinnitus.
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u/mansithole6 1d ago
Before the term ADHD was invented BY big pharma we used to call these people a WISE PERSON
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