Same, except younger sister from my POV. AutDHD is a lot, and in my current, well accommodating and supportive environment it's a pretty cool way to be a lot of the time. Unfortunately, I also have C-PTSD, which is considerably less fun - though thankfully manageable with my current meds and the understanding of my husband and children.
@@druck7480 neurodivergence is an informal umbrella term for approximately "unusual brain." For example, I am an autistic, dyslexic & hyperlexic member of the Mensa with ADHD and C-PTSD, and it is just easier to describe myself as multiply neurodivergent. Some of us like the newer word neurovariant more. Those with more statistically likely brains are called neurotypical. Hope this is useful and welcome to the community!
I used to keep scrapbooks jammed with articles or random notes and information that i nick named the college of radical knowledge. Which is basically what would be called a common place book.
I am AuDHD, late diagnosed, and this really sounds like how my brain works. It really resembles my own organizational habits and how I used to deal with homework and exams. (This is not to assume or suggest you specifically have ADHD and ASD, I just relate to your experience of not externalizing ideas via notes or journaling.) I'm now medicated for my ADHD, and still prefer that "save for later" method, but I now (thankfully) have more energy to clear through those content piles, digital or physical.
Sounds a lot like how my AuDHD brain used to work, before menopause hit and now I can't retain anything! It's quite normal for me to have like 200 tabs open! i used to visualise books, i can't remember it now. I only remember random stuff!
I’m like that too for the tabs, stacking links and videos to read or watch later, memorizing some stuffs easily (actor’s bibliographies, song lyrics…) but other stuff live my mind as soon as I don’t need them (I can’t memorize recipes even if I do them regularly)…. I was diagnosed Autistic and ADHD (AuDHD) 2 years ago, in my late 30s! Of course I have other traits and I’m not trying to armchair diagnose you, but to me these are typical AuDHD traits 😅.
My brain is similar. Like a steel trap for things it's interested in or can attach to existing knowledge and prone to data dumping with the slightest encouragement. More broadly though (and speaking from experience as someone who holds a PhD), this sounds like deep expertise to me. You've spent over two decades practicing permaculture and more than a decade in this specific garden, you use that knowledge daily and have spent a lot of time educating the public (and I'm going to guess your kids too). I'd be more surprised if you didn't have a deep knowledge of the details and interactions in your garden. I do second the other folks who have suggested investigating ASD/ADHD as this is a good fit for special interests/hyperfixations (I'm autistic, and suspect as-yet-undiagnosed ADHD too). There's also a correlation with dyslexia which I recall you mentioning.
I have Sherlocks mind palance. Before that show, I had a mental file cabinet 😁 But I am starting to lose my photographic memory as I age...or maybe my palace is full 🤣
My brain works the same way but I never had a name for the place I keep the knowledge about my passions: cooking being number 1. Pinterest is my friend, but I think I'll call my mind palace my "Recipe Box." However, I don't exactly follow recipes; I more use them as suggestions, but that is because I know the craft so well that I *can* play with it. I have been called a kitchen witch before and I wasn't offended. My mom was like that about gardening. It was her passion and she was a treasure trove of information about everything to do with it. She could talk about it for hours. She and my dad created gorgeous flower gardens and hardscapes to compliment them. Sadly, once she could no longer physically do it, she lost her passion for living and we lost her within a couple of years. And she was like us: memorize and dump except for what most mattered to her.
A photographic memory is a beautiful thing My land lord can remind me what I said 20 years ago but he has spent thousands$ on Internet romances My ex of many years ago was a guitar player on heroin , he couldnt make good decisions but his mind was brilliant Lay low Park Rose We in the resistance movement will need you in the future as MSN news is baught and paid for by the ultra rich Soon we will be in the underground movement and it's important that people like you continue to have a voice here on utube Shits getting real real fast
Compared to what? I don’t really see it as more misinformation than other platforms, just more content in general. Overall it’s way better than any of the copycat versions like Reels, Shorts, etc. That said, I redownload it for about day or two every couple of weeks before getting totally overwhelmed these days. But I’ve been curating my algorithm for years and my feed is not at all what people stereotypically think TikTok is. Comments like this are usually from people who haven’t spent hardly any time on it
I wish with all my heart that my brain worked like yours. I have had working memory issues since childhood but was not disruptive in school, so I was never tested for ADHD. I can remember plot lines from media I saw as a kid, but not what I had for breakfast. I failed at community College because I couldn't do what you do. My own brain is broken.
Have you ever hear of SDAM - Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory? I identify with you not recalling personal details of my day to day life, because I can't either. It's because I can't visualize and I have SDAM. And ADHD :)
interesting, I relate to externally saving things for later like bookmarking /add to watch later/etc, but it has to be organized. if i have a lot of tabs open, i'll separate them into windows for each topic or project or whatever (like one for school work, one for a research project, one for recreational stuff) and if it gets to be too much I save them in bookmark folders. I think your brief side point about things being deleted online is a good reminder to keep physical or at least offline copies of information you want to save for later, so like screenrecord, screenshot, save to harddrive/flashdrive, print). I dont have a photographic memory for anything. I have pretty good memory for things I've had as special interests/important stuff, but I have to be prompted by someone/something else to remember specific facts about a plant species etc. I'm working on writing things down more (journaling, keeping a zettlekasten with obsidian) for this exact reason, I can never remember what I know without someone else's help lol.
This sounds so familiar! When I was in high school, history was one of my favourite subjects (to be honest, it still is). I remember once going into a history exam (on events that lead to the start of WWI, if I recall correctly) and I'd studied for the exam, but when I came to the portion on where we could pick a few subjects for essay questions, I suddenly remembered a picture in our history text book on the stages of the fall of the Ottoman Empire (the map was colour coded for when certain regions had split off from the Ottoman Empire). I hadn't read much of the text on the topic, but I answered that question anyway, extrapolating my answer on the visual information I'd retained from that image.
I think you're talking about several different memory topics. Some of this seems to indicate that you have very visual memories, but you also have some means of literally filing away information in a way that a lot of people don't have.
I signed up to TikTok only to support a very few content creators, like Angela. Sorry to hear TikTok is becoming an issue. Best wishes on navigating the turbulence!
I’m sorta recognizing an adult sister undiagnosed AuDHD human. That’ll be interesting to investigate if you’ve got bandwidth.
Agree with you fellow AuDHDer 😅
Same, except younger sister from my POV. AutDHD is a lot, and in my current, well accommodating and supportive environment it's a pretty cool way to be a lot of the time.
Unfortunately, I also have C-PTSD, which is considerably less fun - though thankfully manageable with my current meds and the understanding of my husband and children.
Ha! It's funny to hear you call it that, too. In my head, I call it my "Rolodex."
Oh yeah, I have a bunch of private play lists full of things I see that I want to watch but just not right now.
I save videos after reposting them. I figure if it's good enough to repost I might want to revisit it in the future.
Welcome to neurodivergence.
this
Yup hyperfocus for subjects of interest with great retention - everything else not so much.
wow!… get out of my brain!… is that what this is called?… well then I’ve got it!…😀😂
@@druck7480 neurodivergence is an informal umbrella term for approximately "unusual brain." For example, I am an autistic, dyslexic & hyperlexic member of the Mensa with ADHD and C-PTSD, and it is just easier to describe myself as multiply neurodivergent.
Some of us like the newer word neurovariant more.
Those with more statistically likely brains are called neurotypical.
Hope this is useful and welcome to the community!
My youtube playlists ...... my watch later is 2500+ ... and i have 30+ OTHER playlists
I used to keep scrapbooks jammed with articles or random notes and information that i nick named the college of radical knowledge. Which is basically what would be called a common place book.
I used to keep scrapbooks of craft and game ideas when my kids were little. I had binders of all sorts of magazine snippets.
I am AuDHD, late diagnosed, and this really sounds like how my brain works. It really resembles my own organizational habits and how I used to deal with homework and exams. (This is not to assume or suggest you specifically have ADHD and ASD, I just relate to your experience of not externalizing ideas via notes or journaling.)
I'm now medicated for my ADHD, and still prefer that "save for later" method, but I now (thankfully) have more energy to clear through those content piles, digital or physical.
Same, same!
*waves* from Finland
Im the same way. Plants and the post it notes
Wow!… I do the exact same things!… glad to know I’m not the only one…
Adhd/Autism... cause that's absolutely the same as me...
Same 😅
Sounds a lot like how my AuDHD brain used to work, before menopause hit and now I can't retain anything! It's quite normal for me to have like 200 tabs open! i used to visualise books, i can't remember it now. I only remember random stuff!
I’m like that too for the tabs, stacking links and videos to read or watch later, memorizing some stuffs easily (actor’s bibliographies, song lyrics…) but other stuff live my mind as soon as I don’t need them (I can’t memorize recipes even if I do them regularly)…. I was diagnosed Autistic and ADHD (AuDHD) 2 years ago, in my late 30s! Of course I have other traits and I’m not trying to armchair diagnose you, but to me these are typical AuDHD traits 😅.
This exactly describes how my brain works too!
My brain is similar. Like a steel trap for things it's interested in or can attach to existing knowledge and prone to data dumping with the slightest encouragement.
More broadly though (and speaking from experience as someone who holds a PhD), this sounds like deep expertise to me. You've spent over two decades practicing permaculture and more than a decade in this specific garden, you use that knowledge daily and have spent a lot of time educating the public (and I'm going to guess your kids too). I'd be more surprised if you didn't have a deep knowledge of the details and interactions in your garden.
I do second the other folks who have suggested investigating ASD/ADHD as this is a good fit for special interests/hyperfixations (I'm autistic, and suspect as-yet-undiagnosed ADHD too). There's also a correlation with dyslexia which I recall you mentioning.
Exactly I can truly relate to the way your brain works mine does very closely You articulate🙂 it more efficiently.
O chem is the devil 😅
I could do differential equations no problem, but that one got my ass so bad hahaha
Elites absolutely do not want us talking about class consciousness right now.
I have Sherlocks mind palance. Before that show, I had a mental file cabinet 😁 But I am starting to lose my photographic memory as I age...or maybe my palace is full 🤣
My brain works the same way but I never had a name for the place I keep the knowledge about my passions: cooking being number 1. Pinterest is my friend, but I think I'll call my mind palace my "Recipe Box." However, I don't exactly follow recipes; I more use them as suggestions, but that is because I know the craft so well that I *can* play with it. I have been called a kitchen witch before and I wasn't offended. My mom was like that about gardening. It was her passion and she was a treasure trove of information about everything to do with it. She could talk about it for hours. She and my dad created gorgeous flower gardens and hardscapes to compliment them. Sadly, once she could no longer physically do it, she lost her passion for living and we lost her within a couple of years. And she was like us: memorize and dump except for what most mattered to her.
My brain works the same way
Yessss
A photographic memory is a beautiful thing
My land lord can remind me what I said 20 years ago but he has spent thousands$ on Internet romances
My ex of many years ago was a guitar player on heroin , he couldnt make good decisions but his mind was brilliant
Lay low Park Rose
We in the resistance movement will need you in the future as MSN news is baught and paid for by the ultra rich
Soon we will be in the underground movement and it's important that people like you continue to have a voice here on utube
Shits getting real real fast
I don’t bother with TikTok. Too much misinformation on there.
Don't like it. I lasted a week.
Compared to what? I don’t really see it as more misinformation than other platforms, just more content in general. Overall it’s way better than any of the copycat versions like Reels, Shorts, etc.
That said, I redownload it for about day or two every couple of weeks before getting totally overwhelmed these days. But I’ve been curating my algorithm for years and my feed is not at all what people stereotypically think TikTok is. Comments like this are usually from people who haven’t spent hardly any time on it
My brain works similarly, but definitely without the photographic memory elements.
Yes yes I totally do that/this.
Me too!!!!!!!
🎉 💜
I do not clock app the energy is feels frantic to me. I also am a gal that shuns having multiple tabs open but I rock with you gal
Well, learned something new. Now I know why so many links are broke.
I wish with all my heart that my brain worked like yours. I have had working memory issues since childhood but was not disruptive in school, so I was never tested for ADHD. I can remember plot lines from media I saw as a kid, but not what I had for breakfast. I failed at community College because I couldn't do what you do. My own brain is broken.
Have you ever hear of SDAM - Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory? I identify with you not recalling personal details of my day to day life, because I can't either. It's because I can't visualize and I have SDAM. And ADHD :)
Interesting. I cannot form mental images. It sounds handy!
Hello! Some call that ADHD. I call it normal.
interesting, I relate to externally saving things for later like bookmarking /add to watch later/etc, but it has to be organized. if i have a lot of tabs open, i'll separate them into windows for each topic or project or whatever (like one for school work, one for a research project, one for recreational stuff) and if it gets to be too much I save them in bookmark folders. I think your brief side point about things being deleted online is a good reminder to keep physical or at least offline copies of information you want to save for later, so like screenrecord, screenshot, save to harddrive/flashdrive, print).
I dont have a photographic memory for anything. I have pretty good memory for things I've had as special interests/important stuff, but I have to be prompted by someone/something else to remember specific facts about a plant species etc. I'm working on writing things down more (journaling, keeping a zettlekasten with obsidian) for this exact reason, I can never remember what I know without someone else's help lol.
I was going to leave a comment but I don't know if youtube has the same limitations so I think I'll wait a few days (:
This sounds so familiar! When I was in high school, history was one of my favourite subjects (to be honest, it still is). I remember once going into a history exam (on events that lead to the start of WWI, if I recall correctly) and I'd studied for the exam, but when I came to the portion on where we could pick a few subjects for essay questions, I suddenly remembered a picture in our history text book on the stages of the fall of the Ottoman Empire (the map was colour coded for when certain regions had split off from the Ottoman Empire). I hadn't read much of the text on the topic, but I answered that question anyway, extrapolating my answer on the visual information I'd retained from that image.
I think you're talking about several different memory topics. Some of this seems to indicate that you have very visual memories, but you also have some means of literally filing away information in a way that a lot of people don't have.
I signed up to TikTok only to support a very few content creators, like Angela. Sorry to hear TikTok is becoming an issue. Best wishes on navigating the turbulence!
No Tic Toc for me.
Very familiar. Betting your ADHD neuro spicy. Check it out.
Yes. It's called ADHD. Edit: Further into video now... Girl. Girl. There's a name for everything you're describing.