I was just so surprised because words are really my jam. I love reading, I love writing stories, I love learning foreign languages, I love Shakespeare, I love etymology and linguistics. It just would have never occurred to me that it was an issue. It's only been in the last few years that I've noticed all those things I mentioned in my post are worse, but I did read stress and illness can play a role in making things harder and I've certainly had a lot of that.
My brother wasn't diagnosed as having ADHD until he was around my age, and we only just figured out my mother has afantasia last month when she couldn't figure out how to put a sweater she was knitting together I discovered she literally cannot picture things in her head. You just don't think the way you've always done things is weird until you find out other people do it differently.
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Date: 2022-04-09 03:56 pm (UTC)My brother wasn't diagnosed as having ADHD until he was around my age, and we only just figured out my mother has afantasia last month when she couldn't figure out how to put a sweater she was knitting together I discovered she literally cannot picture things in her head. You just don't think the way you've always done things is weird until you find out other people do it differently.