Can someone please help me with my problem?

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Please, no-one has given me any helpful advice what to do or what it could be, please read. It happens to me when I answer maths questions and when I'm explaining concepts in relation to situations in science.


Copied and pasted but, oh well-


When I solve a problem, I tend to try to do everything at once.

Instead of re-organizing I rush in putting all of the information at once and I get confused.


Like a shape game, where you're meant to re-organize the shapes in the correct hole but instead I'm pushing all the shapes in one hole at once.

Is that considered an executive problem? Do you know how you would deal with that too?


And this is what it feels to me in my mind:


http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=35816i0&s=6


Anyone help please?

I also make alot of silly mistakes.

Sometimes in English, instead of saying met I'll say bet and instead of saying me I'll say be o_0..

Last edited by NateRiver on 17 Aug 2012, 11:41 am, edited 1 time in total.

A little while ago, I was reading a book on learning disorders, and it mentioned that with dyslexia and some other LD's, a person will often have trouble organizing or properly breaking down information.

Since you mention that your problems are with math and science concepts, and not with english or any other subjects, you could possibly have dyscalculia. I don't have enough information to say that for sure, but look it up; you might possibly find some similarities, advice, services, etc.

Sounds like youve just answered your own question.

You "try to do everything at once".

You respond to math problems with fear and panic.

Just learn to not panic and the steps will come to you.

Maybe if you didnt wait until exam time, but found some way to make a game of math in your off hours you would learn to not panic.

No one here can diagnose you, but you may be describing a perceptual distortion. That is common on the Autism spectrum.

Sometimes I'll say banana instead of doughnut. Seriously.

But when you say "Sometimes in English" do you mean English isn't your first language? If so then kudos to you for being bilingual. I'm genuinely hopeless at learning languages.

As for your first concern - uuum, I read this journal article about autistic kids not automatically searching a room systematically like NT kids do (in a standardised 'search' task). I think it's a similar thing- trying to do everything at once and not approaching a problem systematically.

Guess what, though? You can learn to do that, it just takes practice. Get some problems (math, visuo-spatial, whatever) at home and force yourself to think about solving it systematically, step by step. Write the steps down if you need to at first. It's like reigning in a pack of hyperactive labradors, but with a lot of practice you can train your brain to do it. I know because I've had to do it myself too.

If you want to think of it in a different light, though, I attribute my ability to problem-solve creatively to my brain's tendency to think about everything at once. It might not be helpful in a shapes game, but it might be pretty spectacular during complex real-world problem solving.

...Just food for thought...

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I like the pix. Has a nice depiction.
This does not happen to me with maths/science but with social interactions. The only solution I have found is not to panic and try to endure till you can understand the constants/variables involved.

It only happens when I'm trying to explain something in science that I haven't come across before because I have problems ordering my thoughts. Making the stupid mistakes in maths, Idk