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Does your ADHD make you forget?
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this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2023
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Here's a simple experiment you can try. Look up one of the contacts in your phone. It has to be one whose phone number you don't know. Read their phone number, then try to recite it or write it down from memory without looking at it again.
If my meds are working like they should, I can do it. Otherwise I have to literally look at every single digit as I write it down because it's like as soon as the number is out of sight, I might as well have never seen it. Same with reading books. I love to read but I struggled with it before getting on Vyvanse because I would get to the end of a paragraph and have absolutely no idea what I just read. I'd have to read the same paragraph 5-6 times before some of it actually stuck.
This is something that some people who don't have ADHD struggle to understand. Everyone forgets things occasionally. That's normal. What's not normal is forgetting things so quickly and frequently that it severely degrades your quality of life. That's a common symptom of ADHD and boy does it suck.
Just remembering people's names is a torment. I'm a Teamcoach and I have to keep some sort of inventory because from time to time I can't remember the names of colleagues that I've been working with for 10 years.