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I have severe ADHD, the sheer volume of things I've forgotten must make me one of the smartest people alive
by distract8901 3y ago
I have severe ADHD, the sheer volume of things I've forgotten must make me one of the smartest people alive
- Llamamoe 3y agoI have a pet theory that the sheer range of information ADHD people expose themselves to is precisely why they're often so versatile cognitively - even if the memories don't stay in "memory", the brain still learns from having processed them.
- distract8901 3y agoThat feels right. I don't really have direct recall for everything I learn, but it almost always stays lurking in my brain until I run into a specifc problem requiring that information