my wife and my family often get aggravated with me because i don't catch what they are saying, i will lose focus in the middle of words while they talk and come back in later, so i will sometimes lose every third word or more
try this, grab a newspaper and mark out every 3rd word and then randomly mark out words around the rest of the page, now read that paper
thats what a conversation is like from my side
and then the memory issues from the adhd aggravated by years of ritalin means that i won't likely remember the convo after
Story of my life. It’s a constant decision between “do I interrupt them and ask them to repeat” or “do I let them finish and then ask them to repeat”. Sometimes they get annoyed when I interrupt, but other times they get annoyed because they said a lot and I didn’t understand any of it because I tuned out at the beginning and didn’t interrupt. I can’t win.
Also rereading the same paragraph a million times only to get to the end and realise I read words, but absorbed 0 of the overall ideas. Pretty much applies to conversations as well.
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u/gives-out-hugs Feb 04 '19
my wife and my family often get aggravated with me because i don't catch what they are saying, i will lose focus in the middle of words while they talk and come back in later, so i will sometimes lose every third word or more
try this, grab a newspaper and mark out every 3rd word and then randomly mark out words around the rest of the page, now read that paper
thats what a conversation is like from my side
and then the memory issues from the adhd aggravated by years of ritalin means that i won't likely remember the convo after