Posted by Ritch on January 8, 2003, at 23:57:38
In reply to Re: Adderall and card games, posted by Saragram on January 8, 2003, at 10:27:30
> Rich wrote: This is very interesting. I have trouble with stores as well (especially unfamiliar ones). Also, better bring a list or forget about coming out with what you intended to go there for! I did the best at Math in school, but when it comes to card games I am at sea as well. When I was first prescribed Adderall (just 5mg) combined with Neurontin it was amazing how I could sit at a table of people and listen to the rules and remember them, and most importantly follow through and keep up with everybody else. Otherwise it would be like walking up and sitting down and taking over someone else's hand and make a play and then go back to another room in the house and then come back and sit down again (with no knowledge of what went on since you played last).
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> Sara replies: Ritch, it looks like our brains are wired similarly except that yours is math-oriented and mine is verbal. I score OK on the math side of standardized tests (100 points lower than my verbal on the SAT, 200 points lower on the GRE 17 years later) but ran into a brick wall math-wise during second semester college chemistry. I can't balance a checkbook and both the only jobs I have ever had that I was outright awful at were as a check proof operator at a bank in my 20s and as an accounts payable clerk 35 years later. If there's an error or discrepancy I CANNOT find it or reason out where it could be.
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>I got stuck when it came to taking Calculus in college. The instructor was talking about derivatives and it seemed the stuff he was writing on the chalkboard looked a lot like "Pascal's triangle" which I had checked out in a previous class. It also seemed to have something to do with a logic class I was taking at the same time (meta-statements). I was trying to put these together somehow and was fascinated with them to the point that I could't follow the mechanics of constructing the proofs the teacher wanted. That's where the bipolar part of my troubles probably has more to do with the attention troubles than anything else. It "creates" more things to put on my "plate", than I need to solve the problem or task in front of me.
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