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Struggle to remember details from books and films

C

Hello,

Please can you help me with this.

I’m an autistic-ADHD. I’m at a loss with my memory. It’s awful, I can hardly remember books or films after finishing them, and character’s names don’t register with me. I’m left unable to recall who was who, it takes the edge off of it for me and I’m left feeling like what’s the point in reading or watching anything. I can normally remember the main characters names but everyone else is forgotten.

I went to see my doctor as I worry about a brain tumour or something like that as I get headaches frequently and suffer pretty extreme tiredness and fatigue. But my doctor wasn’t convinced of sinister health and thinks it’s much more likely to do with my ADHD.

Today my big sister very kindly bought me this new Wicked dvd and I was really happy because I love escaping in to a good film but I’m sad too because I know I’ll not be able to remember it properly.

There’s nobody else in my family with autism or ADHD and that’s why I thought I would ask here as I don’t know much about it either.

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  • Hey PhantomG

    i can safely say that all you describe above I suffer with also. I am undiagnosed atm but I’m fairly sure I’m not ADHD. I enjoy watching things but don’t remember anywhere near what I would like to. My favourite film (Weird Science) I have watched probably near to 100 times and still my memory is limited. Reading is also a problem to me as I don’t take it in so I discovered audiobooks…. When I hear it out loud it does help but I would listen to the same book 2 or 3 times. 
    I can’t say if it’s an autistic thing but I struggle as you do. My therapist said that I probably talk to myself a lot to process things better, wonder if it’s connected??

  • in reply to Take5

    Hello Take5.
    I'm sorry this is something you suffer from as well. It's really tedious isn't it. I'm glad you've found audiobooks helpful, this is something I've been dying to try out but haven't bought one yet. Now I've read your experience with audiobooks has been helpful I think I will try and get one too to see if it will help me as well. It might be connected. My therapist suggested talking to myself aloud to try to help process things better.

    I saw Weird Science. I love it.

  • in reply to C

    Glad you like the film. It’s my all time fave!

    Talking to myself definitely helps me process things better for sure as even when I write lists I forget to look at them. I have kind of accepted that forgetting is just part of who I am and I try not to let it get to me so much now.

    I hope you can find a balance somewhere and happy to chat if you ever need to

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  • in reply to C

    Glad you like the film. It’s my all time fave!

    Talking to myself definitely helps me process things better for sure as even when I write lists I forget to look at them. I have kind of accepted that forgetting is just part of who I am and I try not to let it get to me so much now.

    I hope you can find a balance somewhere and happy to chat if you ever need to

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