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Post by earthmonkey on Aug 6, 2008 23:35:05 GMT -5
Oh noes! Some of the special ed teachers printed out a paper of several remembering methods, and this was one of them, the one that took the longest to wrap around my head, and once I understood it, it was one of the least effective things ever for me. I've always had trouble with mnemonic devices too, like the kind that say Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally, which apparently has something to do with math and was taught extensively in elementary school, and - argh! (there was also one about the solar system, something about pizza?!) Something that does help me, is to develop hand gestures to go with different actions and things, and so when I do those gestures, I remember to do the action. (This is how I learn songs.) Unfortunately, this technique didn't work in trying to memorize the names of gods and goddesses for my mythology exam (mainly, I think, because I didn't think to use this technique until a week before the final, instead of gradually developing gestures and connecting them to names and roles). Fortunately much of it was based on Greek and Roman mythology, which I learned prior to age 12, and most things I learned by rote before that age stick pretty well for me, like 99.9999% of my vocabulary (literally, there's maybe a couple of words that I learned after that which have actually stuck - most words I've learned after that, I never can remember).
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Post by batzarro on Aug 7, 2008 1:28:49 GMT -5
I use a PDA (Palm Zire 72) instead of timers and sticky notes. The calendar lets you set a timer attached to a note. Many cell phones have a similar feature. As for directions, I was hopeless until Max bought me a Global Positioning System (Garmin Nuvi 350). You can probably find a used one relatively cheap. doctorboy, how would you describe your executive functions? Mine are utter crap.
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Post by micgrace on Aug 7, 2008 3:23:01 GMT -5
Continuing on . Heres something doctorboy may relate to (and lose nearly everyone else). In a rather and very complex discussion regarding the hypothesis of head NASA AstroBiologist (sorry I can't remember his name now) who paid a quick lecture / visit to my Uni and while having a discussion with the head prof about his hypothesis relating to orbit eccentricities of the earth and relating them to the KT event was good until I forgot basic nomenclature relating to earth history, but could decipher the complex integration used. I tended to look a bit like a fool while putting my own hypothesis foward as to another alternative explanation
But the comment was interesting we'll soon get you doing something. Like research into precambrian carbonate deposits using organometallic chem. techniques etc (don't ask...takes too long to explain)
But the annoying part and always is the very easy parts of something are like a mental block. Its there one minute but gone the next. Like the exectutive function says I'll teach you a lesson. I'll humiliate you.
anyway the chief prof at the uni has aspies in spades as well, so I suppose he understands the wacky short term memory defects on simple terms, problems etc.
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Post by micgrace on Aug 7, 2008 3:57:09 GMT -5
I use a PDA (Palm Zire 72) instead of timers and sticky notes. The calendar lets you set a timer attached to a note. Many cell phones have a similar feature. As for directions, I was hopeless until Max bought me a Global Positioning System (Garmin Nuvi 350). You can probably find a used one relatively cheap. doctorboy, how would you describe your executive functions? Mine are utter crap. So are mine. Problem is I have a bit of an aversion to self organization. But the best thing for me was to past a sheet on everthing I use on a daily basis with the weekly schedule and write anything out of the ordinary on a calendar where I keep the required daily items phone / wallet etc so I don't forget everthing. Then I write anything else in a little notebook I carry in my pocket (I call that my frontal lobe). If all else fails I write on my hand. Anyway a GPS would be of little use to me I always drive strraight past places anyway even though I know how to get there. Short term memory of mine, nope, there is very little.
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Post by theheretic on Aug 9, 2008 16:26:04 GMT -5
I have a PDA that syncs to Outlook on my computer where I keep all my contacts, and appointments, and since I know how easily computer stuff can get wiped out I have a small calendar I keep track of things in simultaneously. I also keep a steno notebook close by with a running todo & grocery list. If I don’t write something down when I first think of it, it is lost forever. I also have a nifty Ironman watch my friend gave me that has multiple alarms and a programmable countdown timer. I use it for everything from waking myself up, to remembering when to start laundry, get ready for bed, or just keep myself from losing track of time in general. I use the countdown timer to keep track of things like watering the lawn, to remind me when it’s time to leave or do something, or to keep me from spending too much time on the computer, or whatever project I am currently deep into. I too get lost wherever I am going . . . even when I have been there several times already. I have maps for many places I go, and will often use Google to find my way before I leave.
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Post by lestat on Sept 6, 2008 5:27:58 GMT -5
Well well well, lookie here who it is, if it isn't my favourite stalker^ How are you, I was gonna drop you an email checking up, ye know, and how is alexa? Hope you two are feeling better now:) My organisation/motivation skills are worse than crap, I have to write everything down and leave notes where I will see them day after day for a while before the event is due to take place. I just got a huge tub of piracetam in the mail today, thats supposed to work wonders on this sort of stuff, I'l let you know more on how it goes as I find out, too early to say yet as I just took my first dose about 15 minutes ago, but I do feel quite a bit more focussed on day to day shite thanI usually ever do. Micgrace, you sure you don't fancy gfiving out a lecture on organometallic chemistry? I've just been reading up on Grignards myself, and have a few things to try out regarding indole/benzothiophene derivative synthesis that way sas soon as I get set up for schlenk tech:)
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Post by eponine on Sept 6, 2008 20:40:55 GMT -5
I have a big dry-erase calendar for appointments and the like, and 3 other smaller white boards for notes - one for bills, one for shopping lists (which I rarely remember to use), and one for other random notes. If I don't have a visual reminder of when bills are due, I forget until the very last minute that board in particular is a must.
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