More seriously, ADHD, among others, is a working memory disorder. A way to cover this is to use “prosthetics” for it, such as a notepad that you always carry with you. If this affects you strongly, train your muscle memory to use it to note down what you were planning to do and to refer to it when you forgot.

In PC-speak, ADHDers have traded RAM for more CPU.

  • aksdb@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think that’s the working memory. At least in my diagnosis I have extremely well functioning working memory and I excel at a lot of tasks that require to juggle with a lot of information.

    However I still struggle with remembering that I need to do something after the current task if I don’t put some reminder in place.

    So I think it’s some other part of the memory that’s … erm … weird.