24-hour gnats have it good by comparison...
This may be related to the whole Mystery Tired™ thing, but since Christmas I've had the attention span of a 24-hour gnat if I'm lucky. I can't focus on anything for more than thirty minutes, and that's if I'm lucky. My days are passing in a blur, and I honestly can't tell one from the other unless there's a specific event which allows me to differentiate them.
I can't read. I'll sit down with a book, and get maybe ten pages in before my attention wanders. I can't write. I sit down at the computer, and my mind goes elsewhere. I start a sentence and forget what I was going to say. LJ posts take six times as long to compose, and when I'm not posting something random (rants about illiterate twits, shiny links), I actually have to make a point-form outline about what I want to write about so I don't forget.
I've had to write down everything I want to do, almost to the point of writing down simple things like brushing my teeth. It's not quite that bad, but last night I got distracted three times before I got around to it. I will go into a room with the intention of doing something, and completely forget what it was in the time it takes me to get there. I have to bring my little "to-do" notebook with me in order to get my chores done.
I put a load of laundry in the dryer last night (I think it was last night. It may have been yesterday morning). By this morning, I'd completely forgotten about it. I only remembered because I did another load of laundry, and upon opening the dryer I discovered the previous one: "Hey! I washed my socks! Cool." >_<
I have trouble focussing on what people say. Half a minute later, I'll have forgotten the exact wording of someone's sentence. Sometimes my attention wanders as they're speaking, which is really embarrassing.
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And I forgot what I was going to say. Case in point. I think that you get the main thrust of my post, anyway.
It's highly frustrating, in any event.
I can't read. I'll sit down with a book, and get maybe ten pages in before my attention wanders. I can't write. I sit down at the computer, and my mind goes elsewhere. I start a sentence and forget what I was going to say. LJ posts take six times as long to compose, and when I'm not posting something random (rants about illiterate twits, shiny links), I actually have to make a point-form outline about what I want to write about so I don't forget.
I've had to write down everything I want to do, almost to the point of writing down simple things like brushing my teeth. It's not quite that bad, but last night I got distracted three times before I got around to it. I will go into a room with the intention of doing something, and completely forget what it was in the time it takes me to get there. I have to bring my little "to-do" notebook with me in order to get my chores done.
I put a load of laundry in the dryer last night (I think it was last night. It may have been yesterday morning). By this morning, I'd completely forgotten about it. I only remembered because I did another load of laundry, and upon opening the dryer I discovered the previous one: "Hey! I washed my socks! Cool." >_<
I have trouble focussing on what people say. Half a minute later, I'll have forgotten the exact wording of someone's sentence. Sometimes my attention wanders as they're speaking, which is really embarrassing.
...
And I forgot what I was going to say. Case in point. I think that you get the main thrust of my post, anyway.
It's highly frustrating, in any event.