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pensieve wrote:
I have a poor short term memory and a good long term one, so I think hyperfocusing helps me remember things.
I could read an article and probably forget what I read a few minutes later, but if I was interested in it I would probably spend 2 hours looking it up from different sources, and then I'll remember every detail about it.
It's also a good way to beat boredom.
And my hyperfocusing with photography has taken me pretty far: free access to gigs, a few photo exhibits under my belt and the potential to actually make a bit of money from it. One problem was it was all I cared about, I even hated going to gigs with friends because they got in the way, as horrible as that sounds..heh.
I could read an article and probably forget what I read a few minutes later, but if I was interested in it I would probably spend 2 hours looking it up from different sources, and then I'll remember every detail about it.
It's also a good way to beat boredom.
And my hyperfocusing with photography has taken me pretty far: free access to gigs, a few photo exhibits under my belt and the potential to actually make a bit of money from it. One problem was it was all I cared about, I even hated going to gigs with friends because they got in the way, as horrible as that sounds..heh.
gee penseive. that is exactly how i am. the prerequsite for my hyperfocusing is also that i must be intrested. no interest and there is virtually no memory.
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25 Jan 2009, 11:17 pm
Sola wrote:
Many people in the spectrum have the trait of 'hyperfocusing'.....I certainly do. Thinking on this, I began to wonder if others have found this trait sometimes be a great benefit in life's 'great tests'. Have you ever thought that your ability to focus intently on something was beneficial, whereas if you didn't have this trait you might not have been able to accomplish something important. I was thinking about the years of me being the 24-7 caregiver of my Rett Syndrome daughter......I dedicated MY ALL to her and her needs.....and I am happy about that. I am not good at juggling....but at least I can know that I took care of her with ALL my heart......she wasn't just a part of my existence....she was my existence.....if I wasn't Asperger's I might not have been as good at caring for her. Do you notice that you love to dedicate your self to something that really matters in the scope of life. Sometimes I feel like a loser, in so many ways......but not in the ways that I am able to DEDICATE my whole self.
i've raised litters of prematurely born kittens, which required feedings every 45 minutes, for days and days... and then there's spike the finch, who i raised from... pretty much an embryo, given what he looked like when he hatched. that took round-the-clock for weeks, too, plus temperature control, plus hydration, plus when he got butt-fungus, plus...
and i guess there's my daughter, too.
it also got me through grad school - when i really needed to focus on research, i was damned good at focusing on research. for 20 or 30 hours at a stretch. too bad i didn't (probably still don't) have the social skills to parlay that into a living. i ~really~ dug that.
but i consider t all a real plus, yes.
25 Jan 2009, 11:24 pm
millie wrote:
Quote:
pensieve wrote:
I have a poor short term memory and a good long term one, so I think hyperfocusing helps me remember things.
I could read an article and probably forget what I read a few minutes later, but if I was interested in it I would probably spend 2 hours looking it up from different sources, and then I'll remember every detail about it.
It's also a good way to beat boredom.
And my hyperfocusing with photography has taken me pretty far: free access to gigs, a few photo exhibits under my belt and the potential to actually make a bit of money from it. One problem was it was all I cared about, I even hated going to gigs with friends because they got in the way, as horrible as that sounds..heh.
I could read an article and probably forget what I read a few minutes later, but if I was interested in it I would probably spend 2 hours looking it up from different sources, and then I'll remember every detail about it.
It's also a good way to beat boredom.
And my hyperfocusing with photography has taken me pretty far: free access to gigs, a few photo exhibits under my belt and the potential to actually make a bit of money from it. One problem was it was all I cared about, I even hated going to gigs with friends because they got in the way, as horrible as that sounds..heh.
gee penseive. that is exactly how i am. the prerequsite for my hyperfocusing is also that i must be intrested. no interest and there is virtually no memory.
I'm another who is like this. It's amazing what a little interest can do for my otherwise terrible memory. If I'm interested I'm capable of mastery, if not, it's in one ear and out the other.
25 Jan 2009, 11:58 pm
millie wrote:
Quote:
pensieve wrote:
I have a poor short term memory and a good long term one, so I think hyperfocusing helps me remember things.
I could read an article and probably forget what I read a few minutes later, but if I was interested in it I would probably spend 2 hours looking it up from different sources, and then I'll remember every detail about it.
It's also a good way to beat boredom.
And my hyperfocusing with photography has taken me pretty far: free access to gigs, a few photo exhibits under my belt and the potential to actually make a bit of money from it. One problem was it was all I cared about, I even hated going to gigs with friends because they got in the way, as horrible as that sounds..heh.
I could read an article and probably forget what I read a few minutes later, but if I was interested in it I would probably spend 2 hours looking it up from different sources, and then I'll remember every detail about it.
It's also a good way to beat boredom.
And my hyperfocusing with photography has taken me pretty far: free access to gigs, a few photo exhibits under my belt and the potential to actually make a bit of money from it. One problem was it was all I cared about, I even hated going to gigs with friends because they got in the way, as horrible as that sounds..heh.
gee penseive. that is exactly how i am. the prerequsite for my hyperfocusing is also that i must be intrested. no interest and there is virtually no memory.
Wow, that's exactly how am, too! ...or three, I guess I should say lol
26 Jan 2009, 12:01 am
jawbrodt wrote:
millie wrote:
Quote:
pensieve wrote:
I have a poor short term memory and a good long term one, so I think hyperfocusing helps me remember things.
I could read an article and probably forget what I read a few minutes later, but if I was interested in it I would probably spend 2 hours looking it up from different sources, and then I'll remember every detail about it.
It's also a good way to beat boredom.
And my hyperfocusing with photography has taken me pretty far: free access to gigs, a few photo exhibits under my belt and the potential to actually make a bit of money from it. One problem was it was all I cared about, I even hated going to gigs with friends because they got in the way, as horrible as that sounds..heh.
I could read an article and probably forget what I read a few minutes later, but if I was interested in it I would probably spend 2 hours looking it up from different sources, and then I'll remember every detail about it.
It's also a good way to beat boredom.
And my hyperfocusing with photography has taken me pretty far: free access to gigs, a few photo exhibits under my belt and the potential to actually make a bit of money from it. One problem was it was all I cared about, I even hated going to gigs with friends because they got in the way, as horrible as that sounds..heh.
gee penseive. that is exactly how i am. the prerequsite for my hyperfocusing is also that i must be intrested. no interest and there is virtually no memory.
I'm another who is like this. It's amazing what a little interest can do for my otherwise terrible memory. If I'm interested I'm capable of mastery, if not, it's in one ear and out the other.
I guess I should have waited before sending that last message lol. But I'm just like this. If I'm interested in something, I can remember every detail, but if I'm not, I have no memory of it.
26 Jan 2009, 12:10 am
jawbrodt wrote:
millie wrote:
Quote:
pensieve wrote:
I have a poor short term memory and a good long term one, so I think hyperfocusing helps me remember things.
I could read an article and probably forget what I read a few minutes later, but if I was interested in it I would probably spend 2 hours looking it up from different sources, and then I'll remember every detail about it.
It's also a good way to beat boredom.
And my hyperfocusing with photography has taken me pretty far: free access to gigs, a few photo exhibits under my belt and the potential to actually make a bit of money from it. One problem was it was all I cared about, I even hated going to gigs with friends because they got in the way, as horrible as that sounds..heh.
I could read an article and probably forget what I read a few minutes later, but if I was interested in it I would probably spend 2 hours looking it up from different sources, and then I'll remember every detail about it.
It's also a good way to beat boredom.
And my hyperfocusing with photography has taken me pretty far: free access to gigs, a few photo exhibits under my belt and the potential to actually make a bit of money from it. One problem was it was all I cared about, I even hated going to gigs with friends because they got in the way, as horrible as that sounds..heh.
gee penseive. that is exactly how i am. the prerequsite for my hyperfocusing is also that i must be intrested. no interest and there is virtually no memory.
I'm another who is like this. It's amazing what a little interest can do for my otherwise terrible memory. If I'm interested I'm capable of mastery, if not, it's in one ear and out the other.
Me as well. I love hyperfocus, except when I am needing to work on school stuff, since it is not something I can easily hyperfocus on. ?However, as soon as I start researching tech, I will look at the clock and notice I have gone 10 hours of straight reading without a break.
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