Difficulty following verbal instructions

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Yeah very true for me. I started making it clear to my authority figures that if they say something and don't write it down, don't count on me to remember it. As in I have to make sure it is written down. I just got the smart pen device which is helping a lot for class. I wish I had gotten that device when it first came out or else I would have spared myself a lot of poor grades. Its taken a while to work my way up to understanding my learning disability and taking steps to request accommodations.

I am exactly like this; my Homer Simpson-ness in me will set in at times, and I won't understand what to do entirely!

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I usually have to write it down on a note pad. It's nice when my boss emails the task or instructions and then I just print them out and keep it on my desk as a reminder.

At university, anything the professors said was written down. At work, nothing has changed. It doesn't matter if it's something simple like "fax this to so-and-so," it still gets written on either a piece of paper or on my arm/hand (for more important things, since I often glance at my hands during the course of a day).

During my cooking class I would constantly forget what to get when my group told me to get supplies. It was embarrassing when one of the group members wrote me a list telling me to go up and get it. I seriously hated that class.

Yes I do, which I find odd considering how above-average my auditory memory is. I aced a test last week because I remembered all the details of a scenario we were later asked about, even though I hadn't written anything about it down in my notes. My poor memory for verbal instructions got me into trouble at work and eventually cost me my job; I worked in fast food where things were hectic and busy as a matter of course, and when people threw instructions at me in passing, I couldn't remember them, so instead of asking them to repeat themselves and risk looking like an idiot, I did things as best I could remember, which would invariably wind up with my having done some part of it wrong, and my bosses believing that I was stubborn and refused to "follow directions". They said I needed to be "flexible" and do things as I was taught, but I just couldn't remember the things they were trying to teach! It was so frustrating. I don't have that problem any more though because I work for a self-employed psychologist who communicates everything through text (although to be honest her texts are usually garbled and don't make much sense) but at least I can still ask for clarification and see it written down.

I hate verbal instructions. Please write it down and/or show me how to do it. Visual cues plaese.