#i can do short term rote learning but i lose whole chunks of time if its been longer than like. three weeks | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

tadpal · 1 year ago

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one of the more frustrating parts of uni was people without memory problems saying Learn This Now And It Doesn't Matter If It's 3+ Years Until You Next Use It!! It'll Come Back To You!! like no tf it won't. it's gone.

#everytime i drop a skill i genuinely have to reverse engineer it from my last project i did! i keep extensive notes on my projects!#my journals are so obsessive 'written for a historian' bc the historian is ME! i keep video diaries for movements i cant describe!#i draw illustrations!#people think bc i memorises poems and quotes that i will be able to hold lots of skills and events when The Reason I Memorise Poems #is because i have had diagnosed memory problems since i was fifteen ok #i can do short term rote learning but i lose whole chunks of time if its been longer than like. three weeks #like i get that theyre coming from a place of like Your Brain Will Bring Those Memories Back Up but like!!! my Brain Doesn't Store It!!!#my brain is a freak who clears out junk files once a month!!!#idk what to tell you!!!#genuinely the past three years have just been. surrounded by people without intellectual disability working under and with people #who dont have intellectual disabilities. and have no interest in understanding them Bc You Got Into Uni You Must Be Capable #and then wondering why everyone thinks im being purposefully laszy or obtuse #and im only judt processing it #genuinely awful experience

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