I'm Losing My Intelligence

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I feel like I can't think for myself anymore. I have no concentration to speak of, except to write a short post on here. It's like a fog has descended into my brain.

Could it be something to do with the replacement of so many facets of our lives by the internet? Fifteen or twenty years ago, I could still read a novel, or write a long letter, but these days I settle for watching stuff on YouTube or posting on forums. I can still read a one or two page magazine article, but that's about my limit these days.

I don't think that's it. In addition to autism I also have psychosis.

I get something like this frustratingly often, in my case it's a sign of partial shutdown.

The very fact that you fear you’re “losing your intelligence” might actually mean the very opposite.

Maybe you’re actually gaining in intelligence and insight.

I’ve seen this sort of thing before.

Brain fog is a common phenomenon, not just for people with autism, but for anyone who has suffered sleep deprivation.

When I told counselor Jeanne Courtney that I was (am) getting stupider she asked why

Wtf?

You are always getting smarter, the same or stupider


You could do activities to try to make yourself smarter

Play chess

But graceful degradation


Everything you could do is competing with nature


"You can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear"


Like Sisyphus

It may also be due to more stress in your life. This is very common among Aspies who have to live in the NT world.

Attack of the cotton candy?
(In other words, cognitive dysfunction, or as commonly referred to, brain fog)
Mine gets bad.

Eat better

Sleep more