It’s annoying because I spend so much in the noise. But when you tell me something I need to think on, you just, expect me to drop everything to figure it out. No, I’m going to keep drawing because this isn’t a new topic, when I bring it up, nobody does anything to me, so I’m going to mind my business. In fact, I think better when you tell me stuff playing a game or drawing or something because I’m not so much in my head that I don’t know what to think but I’m occupied enough that I can get it.
When I play Minecraft for example, I’ll play a podcast over it and I can tell you exactly what I was doing in the game during what part, it actually helps me remember what time, maybe because it actively engages me in something. I don’t know but I just feel like you’ve gotta prepare for my method of thinking versus your thinking, I’m not ignoring you. Part 2 incoming.
absolutely same
in school I kept having teachers say stuff like “I thought you weren’t paying attention in class but then you kept looking up from your drawing to ask good and insightful questions” and I was like yeah??? drawing helps me remember what you said because the lines I was drawing during each part of it all connect?? why would you think it distracts me, it’s not words, words and drawing take different parts of the brain.
If you caught me writing, now, you would know I wasn’t paying attention. But no teacher ever would catch me at that because they’d just assume I’m “taking notes” lmao
(also I usually can’t write while someone is talking, except for taking notes on it. Because like I said, it’s words and words. Which is why people who can do homework while listening to a song with words are from a whole different planet. And people who invite you over to watch a movie and then try to have conversations while the movie is playing are from another different planet that is at war with mine)
Exactly! I feel the same about people who play games and draw at the same time like Subway Surfers, it’s too much decision making and over-stimulation. But at work, I usually have an MS Paint tab open while people are talking because if I’m typing, I immediately forget what they said, like I have mental dyslexia. “I know I heard a 7 and a 3 but did the 7 come before the 3 or the 3 before the 7?”
Maybe it’s mixing something I like to get done what I don’t like.
Yeah maybe!
I think for me, the different functions that my brain can’t do simultaneously may have something to do with communication.
Because, making eye contact with someone else seems to make it harder to parse what they’re saying. And it feels the same to me as trying to understand two people talking at once – like maybe it’s because facial expressions while talking are also a form of communication, which I’m less fluent in than language, and trying to do both at once is just Too Much.