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What does "brain fog" feel like to you? (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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OMG, it's incredibly, profoundly difficult to talk about this.

Here you have such a verbally unmatched phenomenon with so much of that weird colliding context and fluctuation in generic communicability that you might as well explain to a 2D entity how the third dimension works.

It is a miracle I even was able to recognize it by name when I first came across it.

In ancient times, it was said that the Persians would debate their ideas once sober and once under the influence in order to align clarity with perspective, and here you have this thing, which sees this and is like "hold my beer", fading in and out like old age, flickering the old internal lights without anyone's planned consent, and misguiding thought navigation.

I cannot speak for everyone, but there are a number of us who will tell you they don't dare write fiction (or nonfiction?) if there isn't absolutely every reason to believe they're in the safe zone, mind's eye, verbal recall, and comprehension (including that of relevance, which already has a relative nature) be damned, further complicated by the "there are different kinds" which ranks it in the realm of "phases", "moodiness", and "DID alters" (my step-step-kids each can attest experience with one of those three).

What does your own mind match it up with?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

LOL Well then maybe try not writing like a stumbling misguided artificial intelligence. Actually, I think AI is doing a better job at writing than you have today. I tried reading what you wrote three times and only became further confused.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

One could also, I don't know, ask what something means if they're unsure. I, unlike some of you, don't judge people for not understanding something or for coming across as tripping over words, something my main demographic can relate to. "Stumbling misguided artificial intelligence" sounds like grasping at straws.

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You were absolutely right about their obsession with AI. That's the only reason they're so bothered. Someone said "AI" and it triggered a pavlovian response in the rest of them: getting defensive and grabbing their pitchforks.

I guess being a non-native English speaker is a crime here now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You're trying to convince me you're not a robot by referring to "your main demographic"?

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan 3 points 7 months ago

"your main demographic"

As in non-native English speakers, moron

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

...and? You say that like that's somehow unbecoming of a human to cite.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's a hallmark of people who don't speak perfect English that their English is obsessively perfect.

You'd come off a lot better, I think, if you wrote casually and allowed yourself to make some mistakes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Thanks, I may end up doing this. And as some of what I've said hints, neurodivergence may be some of it, though that's more complex to measure.