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How had this idea never entered my consciousness? Everyone with ADHD should be monotasking.Ĭheck out this short video from Sanjay Gupta. I first heard about monotasking from Carla Birnburg. Let me tell you, there is an absurdly easy solution to your poor working memory: Monotasking! My next question, and hopefully yours is, what can we do about it? True story!Īll of a sudden it is startlingly clear to me that not only do I have ADHD, but my terrible, no good, very bad working memory has been affecting me for my entire life. The same part of the brain responsible for working memory is also responsible for attention and concentration. The other really interesting piece of information I took from the Understood article was this:
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So accessing the information about say, how to do a math problem 4 hours after it is shown to me is virtually impossible. In some of us, a poor working memory makes it harder to grasp and then hold on to new information. As opposed to a lecture that is all listening and no interaction with an instructor behind a podium or desk.Įver had a 3 hour weekly course? Yeah, it is painful at times. Auditory memory records what you are hearing, while visual-spatial captures everything you see.Īs a side note, humans instinctively respond to what they can see, which explains why so many of us with ADHD are better at visual learning. In the same article I learned that we possess both auditory memory and visual-spatial memory capabilities. If my memory is any indication, the period of time a person with ADHD can store information in his or her brain is relatively short. I think it does a nice job of explaining what working memory is and how it works.īy definition, working memory is “the ability to store and manage information in one’s mind for a short period of time.” Working Memory DefinedĪfter a quick Google search I found this article on the website.
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If this rings true for you, then join me in the Society of Poor Working Memory. If you are anything like me, you won’t even remember to TRY to remember the instructions.
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Even now.Īsk yourself this: If I gave you a 3-step set of instructions right now, would you remember my instructions in 10 minutes? I have ADHD, and I also have a pretty poor working memory. I gave up on a lot of my dreams because of a problem that I didn’t recognize clearly at the time. Why the h-ll can’t I remember anything no matter how hard I try?! I would berate myself, feel frustrated and give up. At the time I literally thought I must be stupid. You know why? Because no matter how detailed my notes were by the time I got home and started my homework, those same notes were like trying to read Chinese. Algebra, trig or geometry, it didn’t matter. Frankly, no matter what it was it was lost on me. I remember when I was a kid, I would sit in math class and take these detailed notes about how to do whatever type of math we were learning.