#slow processing

[just-a-music-and-poetry-lover]

Born to read stuff quickly, forced to scroll back up because I only processed part of what I read and it made fuck all sense

[nananaahheyjules]

That feeling when you calculate that you can finish off the last 4 episodes of a drama in one night, only to be hit with bombshells so big, you can’t make it a single episode without taking a 2 hour break just to process it all. 🙁

[enderbot-magic]

The best relief

Is when you FINALLY get a name for something oddly specific about you.

Fear of rejection, but not just fear. You have an intense mood swing, you can melt down, you were fine one moment then you turn self loathing - that is called Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. RSD. It has a name.

Slow thinking, understanding things slower, delayed response, unable to take many instructions, slow to emotions like fear, anger, sadness when threatened with stuff like being grounded for not doing work - Slow Processing. A valid name. You think slower and your emotions are slow as a result. It doesn't affect your IQ at all!

Feel free to reblog with more names for specific things so others know they're not alone, and that Their Struggle Has A Name.

[mindingmyownbrain]

Processing speed is the time it takes for us to take in information, make sense of it, and respond. The information can be visual, verbal, or motor. Another way to define it is to say it’s the time required to perform an intellectual task or the amount of work that can be completed within a certain period of time. Because we place such a high value on doing things quickly in our culture, it is hard to live with a nervous system that needs more time to process information.

Ellen Braaten, Ph.D

[chronic-confessions]

Confession #3,454

I have this weird thing where I will want to do a thing, and literally take years to actually do it (The longest was literally 4 years from the idea being made and me actually following up). It was really bad when I was a teenager. I call it a freeze in my brain. I'm 100% sure it's not normal and its had various negative affects in my life. I'm really slow at processing and taking in positive imput too.

[mindingmyownbrain]

There are a number of things other people can do to help me. One of the key ones is telling me [what we're going to do] without relying on me to ask. Sometimes I may find it difficult to actually ask people what the plan is, so it is a lot easier if they simply tell me. This works well when planning a day out or a working day. It is also useful to have some kind of list of plans for the week that I can refer to at any time, such as a schedule that can easily be seen by anyone throughout the day.

Henry Green

[mindingmyownbrain]

What “too much information” sounds like when you have autism.

[ninthwhisperinguts]

me thinking ab stuff while talking to someone often leads to not remembering stuff at the moment (names, dates, periods, facts; it's just my late processing and hard time navigating the talking+the social+organizing my thoughts at the same time) and just saying it later

so i was talking to my mom ab nuclear fission bc she's watching Oppenheimer, and i forgot the name of the nuclear plant that exploded, the famous one (or the city where it was at). so like 20min later we are sitting here in silence and:

my mom:

me:

me: CHERNOBYL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and she just nods at me.