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20 Jan 2009, 6:47 pm

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Yes. I always felt stupid. Even give me a list of instructions and I'd still have troubles following through. I can't even follow cooking steps because I find it hard to understand so I hate cooking. Another reason why I needed an aid in school.


People actually uses recipes??? I have used I think 2 recipes in my life, and both were modified beyond the point that you could still call it using a recipe. I cook using what I think would taste good.



Sorry, I was talking about cookbooks. Sometimes I have troubles following the cooking instructions too on the box. I mostly have my bf cook me my food since he knows what he is doing. The thing I cook myself the most is boxed macaroni and I do it my own way. I leave out the milk even if the instructions say to pour some in.


I generally make my own creations and have never used a cookbook in my life, I have however looked online at recipes to give me ideas.



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20 Jan 2009, 6:53 pm

I have the same issue with school. I do have access to a note taker, I am terrified to relinquish my grades by trusting in someone who might take in accurate and in complete notes. I simply can't understand, incomplete and non linear notes.

Anyone do anything to help themselves in this respect? I would greatly appreciate techniques.



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20 Jan 2009, 6:56 pm

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I have the same issue with school. I do have access to a note taker, I am terrified to relinquish my grades by trusting in someone who might take in accurate and in complete notes. I simply can't understand, incomplete and non linear notes.

Anyone do anything to help themselves in this respect? I would greatly appreciate techniques.


See if you can get funding for a tutor, and make sure to figure out what you are not understanding.



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20 Jan 2009, 7:01 pm

That is just it. I have to devote full attention to taking completely accurate, step by step notes, since I can't remember processes like that, until I understand their function or understand how they work. It is the ultimate catch 22.

Like, I have a friend. He has told me about his life, countless times. The other day, he finished up a report on his life. I read one paragraph and went ohhhh! That is what you were saying all of those times.

When I listen, I can't hear. Unless, I am being talked to, one on one, and I have a full understanding of what it is I am listening to.

Omg, I don't know what to do.



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20 Jan 2009, 9:28 pm

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I've always had that problem. If I haven't internalized something, and understand it inside and out, I feel like I am not grasping something, and can be forgetful.


Exactly the same here.


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20 Jan 2009, 9:49 pm

This is a major source of embarrassment for me. Some days I feel that I can't do the simplest thing someone asks of me. I can find nearly every item on my Interlibrary Loan List each day, a task which some people regard as very difficult. For me, however, it's easy because I have the list to work from.

Sometimes my seeming inability to do simple things makes me feel so bad I think I'd rather be dead. I can't tell the people who care about me that I feel that way because they would be angry and hurt.

I can't tell them about my suspected AS, either, because people have started to see me as competent for the first time in my life. I don't want to ruin everything at my job and especially not with my family.



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20 Jan 2009, 9:52 pm

Aspienoid wrote:
Rip-City wrote:
I've always had that problem. If I haven't internalized something, and understand it inside and out, I feel like I am not grasping something, and can be forgetful.


Exactly the same here.



Yeah, that is the same as I was attempting to say.

Does anyone know how we can work with this issue?

I could really use anything about his subject. Anything at all.



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20 Jan 2009, 10:28 pm

For two years I went to a school where there were no lectures - I read things and asked questions if I didn't understand. That was GREAT! But going back into a traditional public school was difficult because I had to remember the teacher's lectures.

To this day I still beg my family to write down directions - they either get really annoyed with me, or laugh at me - but that's about the only way I can remember more than a few words of verbal directions. My long term memory is fantastic - it's just the short term stuff that doesn't stick.

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