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Old Oct 31, 2024, 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Tart Cherry Jam View Post
My math and science r capabilities have declined sharply but verbal ones have probably increased. I attribute it to whether I am using those mental abilities or not. In high school I lived physics and chemistry. Now, if I read about those subjects, I cannot believe that Was able to do so well in them back then.
Same, and I'll add my social skills have probably gotten better in the sense that my BPD isn't as "loud" and my ADHD is under control so it feels like when I'm physically with others, it's not in a volcano. It's also a lot easier to be presentable when I'm 10+ years post-first episode and the bipolar is managed compared to the shytshow I was back then.

Seriously, I was a math nerd and would just look at something like this and attack like it was a post-hike pizza. Now 1) I'd have to look up the definition of every other word in the question and 2) I'd probably try, look at the answer, see something different, retry, get something different, follow the processes at least five times for each question, and then understand it for a full 10 minutes and have a 40% chance of being able to apply it to something similar.
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