You should know adhd people often have superior long term memory and faulty short term memory. So we may be able to keep 4 things we need to do in our heads but a fifth will push something out of mind. On the other hand I remember in vivid rage most all the people who did me shitty going back to elementary school.

[–] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was about to say... "That's not how this works". You've hit the bullseye.

[–] JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

The trick is to rev up the ADHD distractions to put le shitty occurrence out of short term before you focus and replay the scenario into long term

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, this tracks more than OPs bullshit

[–] Coldgoron@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I’m not saying it’s impossible but probably not as common.

[–] Yippster@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, according to my therapist all brains, not just ADHD ones, do this - negative memories are evolutionarily more pertinent to survival (i.e. "this rotten/poisonous fruit made me sick" trumps "this fruit was really juicy").

On the other hand some people say ADHD can come with RSD or "reaction sensitivity dysphoria" (i.e. stronger reactions to negative feedback, thus salient negative memory etc.) - and sometimes that feels right to me, but the evidence is thin so far.