is part of it that it's so difficult to read a recipe when your busily concentrating on trying to be in control of your kitchen environment.
If I'm doing something new and potentially scarey, I print it out really big and thenput highlighter points next to the things that i think I might potentially miss that would be critical.
Yes, definitely part of it. :) My main coping strategy is my memory, which is why I wind up with egg-less cakes!
Also, because I have such a small cooking space in what is overall a pretty small flat, I tend to just leave a window open on the computer with the recipe and come back to check it at important points. Of course, the recipe and I often disagree about what constitutes an important point. *sigh*
I think I need to get a bookstand or something so I can have printed information usefully available without taking up too much bench space.
I've spent most of my life relying on my memory to help with stuff like this, and for the most part it's worked. Now that I have more stuff to remember, though (work appointments, assignments, to do lists, catch ups) it's getting less and less reliable. The magnet-to-the-fridge solution should have been obvious, I'm just still not at the point of automatically thinking I have to use something other than my memory to do this stuff.
yeah, i understand. I've had brain leakage due to my mental problems.
I tried to tell both the psychiatrists, who were like "no it's not normal to remember that much stuff in the first place, so stop whining about not being able to do it anymore, use other strategies like normal people do".
Which I think is a good point, we get older and our eyes and memories get worse and we berate ourselves for not being super blinky anymore, which is probably harsh on ourselves.
If I'm doing something new and potentially scarey, I print it out really big and thenput highlighter points next to the things that i think I might potentially miss that would be critical.
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Also, because I have such a small cooking space in what is overall a pretty small flat, I tend to just leave a window open on the computer with the recipe and come back to check it at important points. Of course, the recipe and I often disagree about what constitutes an important point. *sigh*
I think I need to get a bookstand or something so I can have printed information usefully available without taking up too much bench space.
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If you're low on bench space, how about magnetting it to your fridge?
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I've spent most of my life relying on my memory to help with stuff like this, and for the most part it's worked. Now that I have more stuff to remember, though (work appointments, assignments, to do lists, catch ups) it's getting less and less reliable. The magnet-to-the-fridge solution should have been obvious, I'm just still not at the point of automatically thinking I have to use something other than my memory to do this stuff.
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I've had brain leakage due to my mental problems.
I tried to tell both the psychiatrists, who were like "no it's not normal to remember that much stuff in the first place, so stop whining about not being able to do it anymore, use other strategies like normal people do".
Which I think is a good point, we get older and our eyes and memories get worse and we berate ourselves for not being super blinky anymore, which is probably harsh on ourselves.
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