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Post by cheekybuddha on Jan 28, 2016 8:25:30 GMT
Hello Adders I was just doing some puzzles with my son, and realised something obvious. Anytime it was a puzzle he already knew how to do easily he didnt want to know. It clicked with me that the adder brain is all about learning and experiencing new things in order to learn and experience. We just arent interested when we already figured something out. We not lazy But we hate rountine because there is no development or progression for our souls or even just our inner selves! Ps formany oiypou who remeber i wanted to set up an adhd retreat in portugal i now live here and own 1 bell tent! Progress
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Post by vagueandrandom on Jan 28, 2016 12:36:55 GMT
Interesting. . .I don't understand why people would watch films/read books more than once. . .and I had a flatmate who would watch comedy shows over and over and would still laugh at the jokes, even though he knew them by heart. . .Why? My attitude for most things is I've done that - next!
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Post by contrarymary on Jan 28, 2016 16:21:39 GMT
Hello cheekybuddha Fabulous to see you how are you? Portugal - progress Tent - progress Retreat..? xx
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Post by blaze on Jan 28, 2016 16:47:55 GMT
Interesting. . .I don't understand why people would watch films/read books more than once. . .and I had a flatmate who would watch comedy shows over and over and would still laugh at the jokes, even though he knew them by heart. . .Why? My attitude for most things is I've done that - next! i am the opposite, i reread/watch things over & over, mainly because i can't pay attension to things i am not familar with. I also have allways been someone who succeeds breasily at things that come easily to me & don't attempt things i don't instinctively *get*. Although ofcourse not with everything, being that iam a consistantly inconsistant adhder & all.
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Post by anopheles on Jan 29, 2016 1:04:38 GMT
When ai was younger I would learn quickly, sometimes by taking short cuts. Maths was relatively fun for me. I remember winning a chocolate bar (different days) for working out if you knew 6x8, for example, then you also knew 8x6. Until long division. I couldn't learn a short cut, nor could I get my head around the standard explanation, so I just stopped being able to maths.
There's also a weird memory thing going on. I am a really good, if careless occasionally speller. So I remember words perfectly. a word is just a shorthand for a thing, not the thing itself. A kind of code.
Show me an equation and with prompting I will solve it, but I won't remember how to a week later. This is odd, considering an equation is just a code for a thin too.
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Post by cheekybuddha on Jan 29, 2016 7:24:53 GMT
Hello contrarymary Nice to see your here so yes there is actual linear progress! Wierd. Im doing what i said I would! I am going to offer my little blue bell tent as private retreat for this year, for friends, family and anyone esp adders or single parents who would like to have some time camped on an olive grove in the beautiful portuguese mountains! The longer term vision is for something more to offer respite from the crazy life. I will post up more details when ive actually moved onto the land! Ha im being a bit premature. Thanks for the interesting replies which i relate to also. I have always relied on my quick brain which instantly accesses certain things, spelling is one, mental arithmetic another that i could just 'see' but formulaic maths etc i began to get left behind too, yes i like shortcuts and quick results or i lose interest. If my brain cant self containedly figure something out it cant be bothered!
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Post by vagueandrandom on Jan 29, 2016 11:11:02 GMT
anopheles There was a thread about this a while ago (probably started by me) I think it started about noticing everything and having a visual memory. . Anyway. . I see numbers as patterns and words as shapes. . a 'code' as you describe it. My spelling is very good because words don't 'look' right if the spelling's wrong. I'm good at anagrams, often they jump out at me. With numbers, I often have a better result if I look at an amount of something and guess by pattern, than if I actually count (if it's a large number, I lose count and have to start again)
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Post by anopheles on Jan 29, 2016 11:58:11 GMT
That's how spelling works for me! I suppose it could be that, unless we're in a very specialised field, we never get the practice with equations that we get with words.
The few words that trip me up (innate just looks better with one n(, are probably caused by perserversity, where it is difficult to relearn something that you initially learnt incorrectly, like a word, name or telephone number.
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Post by contrarymary on Jan 29, 2016 12:56:27 GMT
this reminds me of some recent research i read somewhere, about a new way of appreciating/understanding how people on the autistic spectrum learn - differently from neurotypicals.
it was to do with seeing/detecting patterns, however subconsciously, & how the first way of learning /first time experiencing something is deemed by brains as being "the right way".
thus change can be difficult-impossible, because things are no longer how they "should be", and re-learning to cover difference or additional knowledge is extremely hard...
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Post by davem on Jan 29, 2016 15:57:26 GMT
ADHD people tend to continually seek novelty but exhibit disturbances in cognitive effort, which is perhaps why many of us struggle to maintain attention during boring tasks leading us to regularly fail to complete the task. If there's a degree of excitement in the task, such that it increases arousal, I can maintain attention. Somewhat tangentially, IQ tests might not simply be measures of intelligence but may also measure cognitive effort.
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