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Struggle to remember details from books and films

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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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  • I'm newly diagnosed with autism and I am really confused as I always thought that the way I am is the way most people are if that makes sense. Things that I read about autism is like reading a biography about myself, but one thing is exactly what you have written, all the way through anything I watch I have to rewind it all the time so I get the tiniest details and then I can't remember them when it's ended it's ridiculous. My doctor sent me for a brain scan before my diagnosis which was clear but I was the one who asked for a referral after speaking to a friend who was also diagnosed but was just telling me about it and until then I never dreamt of me being autistic in the slightest I feel very confused about the whole thing so I thank you for drawing my attention to the fact that this my be my autism and not in fact anything sinister 

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    Confused300492 said:
    I'm newly diagnosed with autism

    Welcome to the community and congratulations on your diagnosis! Slight smile 

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