Am I projecting or does this sound like an compensating strategies for an intelligent person with an executive dysfunction disorder?
To someone with ADHD (me) it does look like it. I seem to be one of the few people who want to discuss the correlation between ADHD and all of these traits, but unfortunately one of my replies didn't garner the attention I wanted.
Yeah same here. I sometimes wonder if these coping strategies result in a late diagnosis (if diagnosed at all).
Hey, do you drink alcohol ? A few years back I accepted a challenge to take a year off drinking from a family member. I cannot tell you how much it improved my memory. Before that I was always losing things, frustrated I couldn’t remember the names of things etc. After about 3 months I felt like I had doubled my memory. I wasn’t really a heavy drinker, but I would go for a few months having 1-2 beers a day. Anyway ju…
Piggybacking to share very similar circumstances and results, though memory improvement while noticeable was not quite as dramatic. What was dramatic? Immediately dropped ten pounds landing me at my ideal weight. Without trying.
This would of course have a positive impact on your vascular health and your brain right ?
> A related theory: being good at math, especially mental math, correlates with aphantasia (not being able to see pictures in your head) This is the kind of condition I wonder if I have. Because on one hand, if I do a visualization exercise I would describe it as foggy at best. Then again, I struggle to understand how our brains could be wired that differently from person to person, that we could have or lack certain…
> those good at mental math might see a chalkboard like image of the problem with all the detail Experiments with chess players and memorization shed some light on this. DeGroot’s research showed the average person is quite poor at recalling chess positions from real games, while chess masters have almost perfect recall even after seeing the board for only a few seconds. However, when the chess masters were given com…
Incidentally, that's one of those anecdotes that sounds deep but is really perfectly obvious if you play chess at a moderate level, or, like, ask someone who does. It would be much more surprising if it didn't work that way (chunking the board into patterns).
I've always felt like I have awful short term memory. I use tiling WMs so I can see information side-by-side. If I need to type something exactly, I forget the exact details almost immediately. I need to derive things to understand them, ie music theory. I'm jealous of people who can memorize and take at face value but if I'm looking at a chord, I need to know the components that create that chord, which gets frustra…
Hey, do you drink alcohol ? A few years back I accepted a challenge to take a year off drinking from a family member. I cannot tell you how much it improved my memory. Before that I was always losing things, frustrated I couldn’t remember the names of things etc. After about 3 months I felt like I had doubled my memory. I wasn’t really a heavy drinker, but I would go for a few months having 1-2 beers a day. Anyway ju…
I'll have a week where I have alcohol in stock, finish it, and not buy it again for a few weeks. So not super regular anymore. I've had drinkier periods but I can't tell if it actually effected anything.