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Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



Pollyanna posted:

I’m dumber and slower than I was a few years ago

my glasses prescription gets worse every year

I don’t remember things too good anymore

I don’t learn things as good or as fast as before

I’m impulsive and have started making a lot more snap decisions to get snacks and avoid work decisions and research in favor of checking something on my phone

I keep putting off putting clean laundry away STUFF and get scared of playing games or jamming on my pc instead of just being on the couch watching poo poo on yt

what’s happening to me

edited to be accurate for me

im doing the same thing. part of me wants to get checked out for add, another part just wants to chalk it up as getting old

basically i think that for the past 30-odd years ive been compensating for my general difficulties focusing with a really good memory. i also got lucky that in general, reading/learning most topics is something that holds my attention so i did well in school. anyway, now that my memory is getting worse, i cant really bounce around from one thing to the other without losing context (whether for ingesting information or producing code/specifications/music/whatever)

kinda sucks, maybe i should tell a doctor about it. i apparently forgot to take my medicine yesterday and the day before despite my pill container being <2ft from me and having a phone alarm to remind me. i got distracted between turning the alarm off and taking it. i can compensate by making a new rule where i dont turn off my alarm before i take my medicine, but...that seems kinda like a red flag

it probably also has to do with burnout or smth

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Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



yeah that tracks

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