I don't have bad memory at all. I have no control over what I remember, though. Sometimes I will see something and know that I will remember this useless information.
And sometimes someone important will introduce themselves, and I will very badly want to remember their name, but it's gone before we're done talking.
I literally write down all names in notes. I'm so incredibly bad with name recall that I forget names of people I worked with and known for years. That app is a life saver and I open it a lot.
I also use the trick to imagine their name as something completely over the top absurd. Which works because the image is so much easier to recall. For example Karen would be then behind the wheel of a Ford Ka running on its back tires. A Ka Run... But this is very difficult to do in the moment.
Otherwise yeah I can lose names at any moment of anything at any point in time. People, towns, events, brands, objects, concepts... Just gone. My mind went passed it with a 1000 miles a minute and forgot to grab it.
Yeah, same, but it's hard for people to understand that.
One day a coworker told me he went to the doctor because of his bad memory and they were suspecting ADHD. This person is extremely well organized and methodic about every thing, the one person who was always the most likely to be paying full attention on meetings and that sort of stuff. Everything about him screamed the opposite of ADHD. And the doctor was suspecting ADHD because he forgets things and that's an ADHD symptom.
Me, on the other hand, I clearly have problems that resemble being forgetful, but I know that's not what's going on. I just need my memories to be triggered. If I'm going to the store and you ask me to bring you some coke, I'll forget about it immediatelly and won't think about it again, but if I walk past the sodas and see the coke brand, or if I do a mental check "did someone ask me to bring anything?", then I'll remember it. It's very different from just being forgetful.
(tbh the mental check sometimes will just make me remember that someone did ask me for something, but not make me remember what it was)
And imagine a scenario where I can share this useless information with someone, but that never comes.
If the subject comes with a good feeling it will be remembered. If it comes with a neutral to bad feeling it doesn’t even gets saved.
If the subject comes with a
goodbad feeling it will be remembered. If it comes with a neutral tobadgood feeling it doesn’t even gets saved.
FTFY.
I might be having a different problem...
that ones unfair. when you repeat something 10000 times you are an expert at that thing.
Good point. I suppose that goes for most things like old commercials that we saw all the time. What's weird for me is that I have a near photographic memory for some movies, even if I've seen them only once, and then other movies I will completely forget that I've even seen them. Like why? What's the distinction for my brain?
Doom 1 noclip code is IDSPISPOPD.
Edit: For you youngins, Doom 1 came out in 1993... 30 years ago.
Yeah dude! Why do I remember that too? Also IDKFA - guns & ammo? IDDQD - invincibility I think.
I can remember obscure things from almost any point during my life, but I can't remember a person's name even when I'm told less than 2 minutes ago regardles
I'm 44 and I can remember my best friends phone number from 5th grade. Couldn't remember it when I was in 5th grade and I can't remember any actually useful numbers today, but I know that one. A guy named Jeff has it now. He's nice.
Our disk defragmentation never runs and it’s always full. So it’s slow at I/O but with enough time we can recover data from a long time ago.
And whoever implemented our garbage collector must have taken it quite literal, without looking up what it means
I remember the phone number of an older guy i talked online for like a week when I was 13 or so, 20 years ago. Thanks brain. Also thanks for reminding me about all the embarassing/shameful stuff i've done over the years. Why not replace those slots with, dunno, SOMETHING USEFUL!
You know I’ve always wondered, since memories can be changed as they are accessed (memory is absolutely fascinating, and very very very flawed), is it possible to knowingly reprogram your own memories to change your own subjective history?
I’ve been trying but I always forget that’s what I’m supposed to be doing.. 🫤
I know so much about a ton of things that have effectively zero utility in my day-to-day life.
This is the way, I guess?
ADHD is super fun. I remember even the smallest details about the most obscure things, and the most random stuff will remind me of that. I also usually can think about 3-4 things at a time! So cool.
What isn't cool is that, I don't get to pick either. Random details? Not sure which ones are going in and not coming out.... Thoughts? Plenty, but I have no choice in what I'm thinking about.
It's a fun little game of whack a mole, trying to get my brain to do what needs to be done.
When I was a kid there was a song that I guess was popular around here that mocked bald people with several "pet names", one of them was "Moskito Airport".
Over a decade later I started taking the train to go to work and it took me literal years to stop getting that song pop up in my head every time the train announced the airport station. Nobody around me even remembers that song exists. I don't even remember who sang it or where it would play, but still - listen to the word airport and the song starts playing in my head. Same thing is true for pretty much every word that is not often found in song lyrics.
This is missing the part where if I manage to misremember something, it is all but impossible to correct the memory.
Curious input, I'm wondering how many people on this community are diagnosed compared to just not sleeping properly.
I notice a lot of these posts that pop up are frequently just normal symptoms of an exhausted brain and there's only a few that distinct themselves with ADHD only.
Not here to ruffle any feathers, just the posts are popular in Top/Hot feeds and I hope people seeing them are looking at ADHD diagnosis seriously instead of self-diagnosing like, "Oh, that's so me.". Kind of like people that think they're OCD because they're pedantic.
Again, curious input. Not here for feather ruffle. Just a comment thought it may be worth mentioning in case moderation isn't aware.
The problem is that the symptoms of adhd are things that everyone experiences. What makes it adhd is the frequency, severity, and it negatively affecting their lives.
Well I'm glad we've all given ourselves nerve damage from reading a book for too long
No feathers ruffled.
A lot of ADHD symptoms are variants on normal burn out. The difference is the trigger level and severity.
By analogy, it's like going for a run. Everyone gets tired etc. ADHD is like going for a run with an invisible parachute deployed behind you. You can still run, but it's exhausting. You are also a lot more prone to being knocked about by cross winds etc. Unfortunately, without a sense of scale, the problems all sound like the same issues a normal person has running.
This is a common issue amungst people who randomly happen across here.
Going pee isn’t anything to be concerned about, but if you’re doing it 60 times a day, it’s probably something to look into. This applies to any symptom and why ADHD is typically glossed over like you’re doing.
My unscientific and uninformed observation is that social media, especially TikTok and Reels seem to mess with peoples’ dopamine reward systems and cause them to become very impulsive and have short attention spans. Either that or literally every single one of my coworkers under 30 also have ADHD.
I thought VAST was some doctor’s proposal for a new name for ADHD. Because “Deficit” doesn’t really fit the disorder in reality.
There has been an uptick in ADHD TikTok videos over the last year or so. There are a few TikTokers that do basically nothing else. Since the core symptoms of ADHD won't provide you with content forever, those channels have continuously moved into symptoms that are more and more loosely connected to ADHD and thus more and more present in people who don't have ADHD.
Now, since medical professionals have been super reluctant to diagnose or treat ADHD for some reason, there is a huge distrust in diagnoses. It's said that ADHD is both the most underdiagnosed and overdiagnosed psychiatric disorder at the same time.
So people who have been convinced on TikTok that they have ADHD because they have trouble prioritizing household chores and walk around objects by swooning their hip out of the way will not trust a psychiatrist when they tell them that what they have is not ADHD.
There are tons of communities all over social media where people who have been "denied their diagnosis" gather and circle jerk about how all their life's problems would be solved if only someone finally wrote "this guy ADHDs" on some piece of paper for them, much to the detriment of real undiagnosed people who go under in this sea of confirmation bias and projection.
What counts as a diagnosis? Technically I've had a medical doctor (no clue what their specialty was) try to prescribe me adhd meds when I was like a toddler (my mom refused). Ironically, the reason my parents brought me at all was mostly sleeping problems IIRC. Even with treatment for sleep apnea and when I'm regularly getting 9 hours of sleep, my adhd symptom's don't seem to change much. If anything, being exhausted might make me more normal.
A diagnosis counts as a diagnosis. ADHD worth any concern is easily identified and diagnosed. If it is hard to determine, it's very likely one (or some) of the countless other things that cause the same symptoms and are more often fixable, but can cause harm/damage if ignored. It is quite simply a numbers game and of all the things causing symptoms like foggy short-term memory, attention drain, daily fatigue, etc, ADHD as the cause would definitely be a single digit percentile. This makes it a concern that people—ironically as someone else put it—gloss over their problems with alignment to memes/post as conviction over professional diagnosis. It also makes things more difficult for the community and those within that do indeed have ADHD.
Again, I'm not saying this is the case, but the remarkable uptick in ADHD's trend lately is certainly making me consider that people are neglecting their health or are indirectly encouraging others to. If I see a meme about ADHD being the LOL cause of needing to sneeze, I'm calling it.
I think OP was more about the trend of self diagnosed people acting like they were really diagnosed people while we all know that self diagnoses aren't worth anything.
I too do oppose this trend since it fuels the "ADHD is a made up dad that parents make up so they don't have to take responsibility for just not disciplining their child enough" crowd that just will not die out and harms diagnosed ADHD patients like myself.
I heard that because working or short term memory is so deficient, the brain retasks to long term memory more often.
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My parents always used to joke about this: "Couldn't I have done something better with that neuron?"
Kid me interpreted this to mean that memory was finite and that, once allocated, was not reusable. It seems incredibly silly in retrospect, but I starred making a conscious effort not to remember things I didn't need to, so as to "conserve space" so to speak. I still occasionally have to stop myself from doing that.
All it got me was a complete lack of practice at remembering things. I still have exactly this problem -- I'll occasionally remember perfectly something I saw over a decade ago, but forget where I left my phone, without exaggeration, three seconds after I set it down.
There you go, OP -- empirical evidence that that's not why. It's not that our brains get full, we're just eternally cursed to be like this
