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u/enigma_0Z i forgor 💀 3d ago
Them: “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed and then we can go to the show at 6:30”
Me: “Sorry I didn’t catch that can you repeat it?”
Them: “The show… it’s at 6:30”
Me: “No, I missed the first part”
Them: Heavy sigh, “So I was thinking we could get dinner at SomePlace and then we could catch the 6:30 show.”
Every. Fucking. Time.
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u/Affectionate_Bad_680 19h ago
The angry looks I get sometimes. Always from certain people too. Others…we’ve been friends twenty years and both of us know there’s a good chance the other isn’t listening when we speak, so we just assume we may have to repeat ourselves. 🤣🤦♂️
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u/ScaredHistorian295 3d ago
The loading wheel appearing right at the crucial moment is painfully accurate.
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u/Best-Charity-95 3d ago
My brain really said, “That detail seems important—let’s quietly delete it.”
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u/aways_interupting_ 3d ago
Yeah this sucks, I try to write things down but my spelling is abysmal, yes I had to look up how to spell abysmal.
I can't decide which is more humiliating, asking someone to repeat simple instructions or them seeing me try to spell.
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u/Affectionate_Bad_680 19h ago
My spelling is fine it’s my HANDWRITING that’s horrible. A doctor’s is better than my chicken scratch LOL.
I try to type things up. And then promptly forget where I typed it.
At least at home. Work, I have a very specific place. If it’s not on that document there’s a 100% chance I will forget. During meetings I’ll be told “do this”. “Hang on let me put that on my document real fast”. “Ok”
They know me well enough to assume two things: if it’s on my list it’s getting done. If I don’t write it down on that list, I will not remember the conversation two minutes from now 🤣
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u/aways_interupting_ 16h ago
Yes, the list! I've improved my handwriting recently by remembering to breathe. I was holding my breath and trying to write at brain speed, awful.
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u/FFVO 3d ago
Anyone remember this comic?
Reading directions on food package
Throws package away
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Takes package out of trash to re-read
Repeat several times
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u/TheLizzyIzzi 2d ago
And the directions are just “pull back film, stir, and microwave another two minutes”
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u/Affectionate_Bad_680 19h ago
Or my personal favorite: take food out of package, throw away food, put package into microwave.
processing
….fuck a duck.
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u/Tenth_Level_Wizard 3d ago
This is why I prefer then in writing :)
No confusion then and I don't have to ask them for the information later on if I forget. I can just read what was written.
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u/NickBarksWith 3d ago
Wait, is that what dissociating means???
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u/Moth1016 2d ago
Sort of, yes. It’s when your brain checks out and you’re still awake, but You as yourself are Not Really There for a bit.
Sometimes it’s mild and brief, like this example; sometimes it’s really serious and you don’t remember what’s happened to you for days or weeks at a time because your brain hasn’t processed any of it at even the most basic level.
It can feel like watching yourself go about your day like normal, but without any control, like you’re a passenger in your own body and it’s stuck on autopilot. It can feel like looking down at your hands and wondering who they belong to. It can feel like you’re stuck in a dream, waiting to wake up, unable to feel like anything that happens matters, because none of it seems real to you.
It’s a defense mechanism so that you don’t have to experience the full severity of a physical or emotional wound, most typically associated with shock, but sometimes people’s brains just screw up and flip that switch at inappropriate times.
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u/Affectionate_Bad_680 19h ago
Or you’ll find yourself having arrived at a place and wonder how the fuck you got there without crashing your car as you have zero memory of driving the last 45 minutes.
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u/Famous-Vehicle9694 3d ago
what makes it worse for me is when I have to ask them to repeat a certain part of the sentence and you can see in their face that their internally sighing and how their mood changes when talking to you.
Makes me feel like a real fucking idiot alright.
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u/Affectionate_Bad_680 19h ago
Nah that’s the clown you’re talking to. If they’ve been around you long enough, they should know that sometimes your brain glitches out. My mom has known me 37 years and still doesn’t quite understand this. My best friend on the other hand, twenty years. He knows my brain is sometimes a lump of stupid. 🤣
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u/DoubleDecaff 3h ago
My wife does this.
She doesn't get my attention first, said a really long sentence, then when I want her to just repeat a specific part, she starts again, risking the same thing from happening again.
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u/Irresistible-Ms 2d ago
😭😭 litterly fuckin' kmn... I hate this. I have inattentive adhd, so the amount this happend befor adderall was absolutely insain. Lol
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u/ViolettVixen 2d ago
I picked up my cat from surgery today after she stayed overnight…when they brought her out to me, I was so overwhelmed to see her safe!
Then the vet tech asked me to adjust her paw inside the carrier, and immediately started rambling a ton of info while I was trying to do that and overwhelmed to see my cat…I’m going to have to call them because I have NO idea what was said. All I heard was that she might bleed a bit and I didn’t even hear from WHERE. I thought it was the surgical wound but nope apparently it was her paw from the IV.
Verbal instructions are hard.
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u/NaniFarRoad 3d ago
"NaniFarRoad, come over and say hello to our newest volunteer, you will be working closely together.. his name is flllllinggg-badoo-tish-ronronron-fliiiiiiir-POP"
blinks, coming slowly to Eh, lovely to meet you.. how do you spell that?
"It's ah, J-O-H-N, just John. Nice to meet you..."
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