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How do people manage tech?

TheCatWoman

For me its so stress inducing, it never seems to matter what I do things go wrong and they go wrong in a big way, or just so frustratingly small things that will not do as they're asked. People tell me it's not just me it happens too and that I'm forgetting all the times its worked and I find I can't really believe them, I know part of it is learning difficulties, some tyes of information go straight to long term memory storage without ever passing through short tem memory, so I've  probably got multiple memories of how to do simple things like C&P, but no way to access them and every time I try  its like the first time. I've tried doing the same things over and over in the hope of getting them to stick in my memory, onl they don't, although I remember having done so, just not what I did.

I had a horrific experience with a new computor a couple of weeks ago, I ended up locked out of everything except my email as it refused to accept any of my existing passwords, refused to accept new passwords and OTP's, it was treating me like I was an invader into my own stuff. I had to write to the comunity manager to help me get back on here as I was stuck on the sign in/reset password page going round in circles.

Its upset me so much that I'm still using my old laptop as I'm to afraid to go on the new one, even starting it up feels risky as I don't know if it will do it again or infect this old one. I'm going to have to get a new phone soon as my current one has a big crack on the casing and I know I should upgrade to something more modern and not an old basic flip top doro. I get so overwhelmed so easily with any thing techy, people starting asking questions and using words I don't understand or why they're asking, then they get cross or disapoiinted that I don't know and I get upset and have the urge to crawl under the table and hide. I've had a few people try and teach me but things have always gone wrong and they can't help anymore or they've just got frustrated or even worse set me up to fail. Everytime I successfully log on to my pooter and do what I need to do, even here I feel like I've got away with it rather than done something normal.

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  • "How do people manage tech?"

    It's interesting seeing the difference with the younger generations who have been brought up along side technology and how confident they can be compared to those who had to learn it later in life. I think it makes a big difference as kids learn quicker so the young often seem to get things quicker. There is still innate differences though, some kids seem to absorb tech knowledge more than others, there are always some that struggle with it too.

    My husband runs the code club at my kids primary school and I help out, some pick things up quicker, but most are petty confident on their tablets -they all have school iPads due to Apple partnership with the local authority.

    My son is particularly skilled at tech, I think he spends time seeing what everything does and clicking on everything. He taught me things I never knew where there, like holding down the space bar and pulling left or right moves the cursor around text on a tablet or phone. He was basically the IT for his school since he was 8, the teachers would get him to help whenever they had an issue. I think they'll miss him now he's left. 

    Even though I'm pretty good with tech, if something isn't working, it's often quicker to ask my son, my husband asks him too and he's a computer programmer. 

    I hope you're problems with your new computer get worked out and you can use it. I wonder if you have developed c-ptsd with technology from the result of a lot of stressful experiences with it that makes it worse? Is that a thing? I don't think you are alone in finding tech hard, I think it just depends on your exposure to it and those first initial experiences?

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  • "How do people manage tech?"

    It's interesting seeing the difference with the younger generations who have been brought up along side technology and how confident they can be compared to those who had to learn it later in life. I think it makes a big difference as kids learn quicker so the young often seem to get things quicker. There is still innate differences though, some kids seem to absorb tech knowledge more than others, there are always some that struggle with it too.

    My husband runs the code club at my kids primary school and I help out, some pick things up quicker, but most are petty confident on their tablets -they all have school iPads due to Apple partnership with the local authority.

    My son is particularly skilled at tech, I think he spends time seeing what everything does and clicking on everything. He taught me things I never knew where there, like holding down the space bar and pulling left or right moves the cursor around text on a tablet or phone. He was basically the IT for his school since he was 8, the teachers would get him to help whenever they had an issue. I think they'll miss him now he's left. 

    Even though I'm pretty good with tech, if something isn't working, it's often quicker to ask my son, my husband asks him too and he's a computer programmer. 

    I hope you're problems with your new computer get worked out and you can use it. I wonder if you have developed c-ptsd with technology from the result of a lot of stressful experiences with it that makes it worse? Is that a thing? I don't think you are alone in finding tech hard, I think it just depends on your exposure to it and those first initial experiences?

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