Been learning how other #ADHD folks also learn by building connections to existing knowledge, so maybe the most ADHD practice I ever had (aside from the rest of my life): the thesaurus.
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Been learning how other #ADHD folks also learn by building connections to existing knowledge, so maybe the most ADHD practice I ever had (aside from the rest of my life): the thesaurus.
When I asked Mom how to spell a word or what it meant, she'd tell me to look it up. I'd eventually find it in the dictionary, but definitions never stuck in my head.
So I started using the thesaurus. It would tell me words this was both like and unlike. I'd see a synonym or antonym I knew, and done. Usage and context where I encountered the word told me the rest.
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@randomgeek have you seen the mappers versus packers thing?
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@genehack How to Think Like a Programmer: Mappers vs Packers?
Not specifically, but I'm pretty sure I've come across the concept before in my learnings. With some frustration, because the best way I can describe my brain is packing maps. Or mapping packs?
I'm a doodler! I start sketching right away, but always switching scales and correcting or redrawing a bit that doesn't work in the whole picture, even if it looked really good up close.
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@randomgeek I was thinking more of http://www.programmersstone.com (which your link cites).
It didn’t quite land for me either, but your earlier description seemed to at least rhyme with it, and I’ve seen folks for whom it REALLY clicked.
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@genehack I'll take a closer look at your link in the morning.
My challenge with mapping vs packing, at least for my brain, is that yeah I definitely map, but it's a careful exploratory thing. It's more like the blind men and the elephant, and I'm all of the blind men.
Based on past experience this bit over here has got to be a tree trunk, except that bit over there is kind of a snake. A ha! Clearly we are constructing a wooden snake golem! Rinse and repeat.
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@genehack It can be frustrating. But it can also be fun.