I often have to stop mid sentence, tell people I’m already at the end of my paragraph, and have to back up several missed points.
I often have to stop mid sentence, tell people I’m already at the end of my paragraph, and have to back up several missed points.
At work, we have a student who I’m suspecting has ADD, and I’ve been experimenting with different talking speeds, to see when her brain would be too bored and start multi-tasking, and when I was just explaining too fast for her to grasp it.
When I told her about my experiments, she said that the way her brain works, is that she just loads the whole sentence into RAM and then at the end of the sentence, she actually ‘listens’ to it and makes sense of it.
I had noticed that when she doesn’t get something, she’ll show no reaction until after the end of the sentence, when she’ll suddenly go “What?”.
And yeah, just what the heck…
I’m guessing, her brain has always been in this hyper-distraction state, and she just developed massive RAM + processing speed, so she could still get the gist of what people say, without needing to actively listen.
I have no idea what I can actually do for her with this info, but it is fascinating nonetheless.
The worst is when you do this, and the act of saying “What?” Ends up knocking the stuck process loose and the sentence comes through just as they start to repeat it.
'What?"
“OH, I said tha”
“Ah, got it.”
Good analogy though.
Oh yeah, damn, she does that, too. That makes a lot of sense now.