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Working Memory

2 articles on working memory.

ADHD Object Permanence: Why Out of Sight Really Is Out of Mind

You love your friends, you meant to do the laundry, the avocado was right there yesterday. ADHD object permanence is a working-memory shortfall, not a character flaw — here is the neuroscience and the scaffolding that makes things stay visible.

May 25, 20269 min read

Working Memory

ADHD Doom Piles: Why the Chair Is Covered and the Drawer Is Full

The pile on the chair is not laziness and it is not mess in the ordinary sense. It is a working-memory strategy that made sense at every individual step and then failed at scale — which is also why the usual tidying advice does not touch it.

September 1, 20269 min read