i keep forgetting everything

  • snooggums@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    I also have adhd and the best thing I have found is tricking my brain into seeing the thing as interesting by adding context. I’m not referring to the associate a single thing with another thing that apparently works for most normal people, but by entirely changing the context.

    Even singing the thing I’m doing to myself while I write it down can be enough. Or writing it down in a way that adds some extra context. A stick person on a sled on a graph of a slope is enough to remember something like whether it is ascending or descending. Or an alligator eats the larger number for 3 > 1.

    More complex subjects are harder, but the concept is the same. Need to interact with it in a way that piques my interest or it is going to float away from memory.