But something that happens all the damn time is during my driving. I listen to an audiobook for any journey but I end up relistening to the same part constantly rewinding because I get distracted either just in my own thoughts or to what is happening around me
That’s ADHD. Ok, not literally, and I’m not saying you have it, but that’s one of the behaviors most of us will exhibit. When driving your attention is split between many tasks (speed control via 2 different and opposing control methods, steering, traffic, etc.) so it’s perfectly understandable for your brain to do that. When you re-listen to catch what you missed your brain is auto-skipping the part it remembers, but because it’s also busy with a ton of other shit it misses when to engage listening again. ADHD is that all the time even if you’re sitting alone in a room.
If that’s your only one, or one of few, you’re a normal person with quirks and flaws, all good! Basically every mental disorder is doing a normal thing too much/too little/in a weird way, it’s the part where it becomes constant or often enough to cause distress in life where it becomes bad
Essentially: if you scroll this community and half or more of the memes hit home, talk to your doctor. If less than half, you’re probably normal (and by that I obviously mean broken but differently)
That’s ADHD. Ok, not literally, and I’m not saying you have it, but that’s one of the behaviors most of us will exhibit. When driving your attention is split between many tasks (speed control via 2 different and opposing control methods, steering, traffic, etc.) so it’s perfectly understandable for your brain to do that. When you re-listen to catch what you missed your brain is auto-skipping the part it remembers, but because it’s also busy with a ton of other shit it misses when to engage listening again. ADHD is that all the time even if you’re sitting alone in a room.
If that’s your only one, or one of few, you’re a normal person with quirks and flaws, all good! Basically every mental disorder is doing a normal thing too much/too little/in a weird way, it’s the part where it becomes constant or often enough to cause distress in life where it becomes bad
Essentially: if you scroll this community and half or more of the memes hit home, talk to your doctor. If less than half, you’re probably normal (and by that I obviously mean broken but differently)
Thank you for this insight. I’ll be more aware if this in the future.