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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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  • That was kind of your sister. I wish mine went out and gifted me Wicked lol!
    Have you watched it yet? I love it, I thought it was such a great musical film.

    I have the same problem as well. I’ve always had this inability to remember things from what I watch and read, at school some of my teachers used to accuse me of intentionally forgetting these details, but it’s actually a very real problem. When I’m stressed I notice I forget more so I try not to be too stressed when reading and watching something.
    One thing I’ve started doing is writing down characters in the book or film, I check IMDB for films and write out the cast. This helps me to remember people better. Just a little suggestion for you to try. It might not help but I’ve found it helps me with this problem.

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  • That was kind of your sister. I wish mine went out and gifted me Wicked lol!
    Have you watched it yet? I love it, I thought it was such a great musical film.

    I have the same problem as well. I’ve always had this inability to remember things from what I watch and read, at school some of my teachers used to accuse me of intentionally forgetting these details, but it’s actually a very real problem. When I’m stressed I notice I forget more so I try not to be too stressed when reading and watching something.
    One thing I’ve started doing is writing down characters in the book or film, I check IMDB for films and write out the cast. This helps me to remember people better. Just a little suggestion for you to try. It might not help but I’ve found it helps me with this problem.

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