This is such an important topic, thank you for starting it Willow!
These are some of mine, though this list is definitely not exhaustive because trust me I always forget something(obviously, hahaha):
-Memory, my short term and long term memory have suffered hugely. I can't tell you what I did this morning, I honestly don't remember. I didn't dissociate either, my mind is just on the fritz and I just don't retain information like I should. And long term..? Forget it, as it were.
I get a lot of weird looks when people find out how bad my memory actually is, especially because I'm really young to be having problems like this!
-Concentration, a lot of things I do just end up not getting done because my mind gets side-tracked so easily it's ridiculous. I've had this problem posting here for example, I'll be writing my post and then something will distract me and the unfinished post will just be sitting here and I'll be like, "oops".
-Loose associations, my mind connects things that aren't connected to "normal" people. In its milder form it mostly comes off as me being a bit "weird" or "off", but full-blown it turns into complete incoherence.
-Motivation, I could write a disorganized novel about this one. I need to clean my bathroom at the moment, I've needed to clean it for over two months now. It's gross, I know it needs to be cleaned. But it still hasn't gotten done because I just... I don't know how to explain why I can't just get up and do it. There's something missing in my logical thinking, I can't see things through to their natural conclusions like non-sz people do. When I have something to do I can't think of what steps to take and what order to take them in so that things get done. This has caused me a lot of long term issues. I've tried a lot of things to fix this, but I haven't had much success.
-I can't retain information all that well, like if you guys pay attention I just about always quote posts I'm directly replying to because otherwise I'm going to forget what I'm replying to and just go off on some random tangent that's not related to the topic whatsoever.
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I misunderstand meaning so if a word has more than one meaning or sounds like another word, I'll hear or read the wrong meaning. This especially happens with positives and negatives eg so I'll understand 'does/doesn't' the wrong way around which confuses me. This makes reading very hard because I keep thinking sentences contradict each other until I read it several times.
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This kind of stuff happens to me a lot too.
-Indecisiveness, me making a decision about anything big or small can take forever and a day sometimes. It sucks.
I have serious issues with thought disorganization in general, and it's hard to really articulate what it all looks like. It's like this fog inside my mind, constantly. It's like... let's say normal people's brains are like a room full of files and they can just pull out the ones they need whenever, they're all in their space like they're supposed to be.. but in mine? They're all over the place, like someone came in and just trashed the place and now the files are scattered everywhere and I don't remember where anything used to be or where it was supposed to be. It confuses me at best, and at worst I end up incoherent.