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I was diagnosed with adhd as a young child, and still very often forget stuff. My short term memory can be terrible and I often immediately lose a thought or forget an idea after just a couple of seconds.

However, I'm often able to recall an idea by going back to what I was doing, which is something I never hear other people with adhd talk about. Sometimes all it takes is going back to the visual that triggered the thought or reading back a couple of sentences. This usually doesn't take longer than ~10 seconds. Other times I have to retrace my thought process, which can occasionally take up to a minute... If it takes any longer, then the thought is likely to be lost forever and I always feel terrible when it happens. At times I randomly remember something days later, even though it had felt like the thought was truly lost forever.

Is this common among folks with adhd? I only ever hear people talking about forgetting, and never about remembering.

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[โ€“] snrkl 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes.. I realised member everything in the shower.. Even the things I remembered in the shower yesterday....

And have zero ability to get it into my digital journal...

[โ€“] PolyPig@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Same! Showers are magical, although I feel like that's true for most people. What I don't understand, is that I am sometimes able to vividly recall the most useless information that my brain really should've just gotten rid of already.