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[quote=Anonymous]Based on my experience, I think you’re overreacting. I’m 45 and have pretty severe ADHD and I do stuff like that all the time. I have trouble with keeping track of time or remembering when things happened, so even if I remember where a thing happened, it might feel like it happened at a different time than when it really happened. I’m not in cognitive decline, it’s just something I struggle with. Did I put the item in the microwave 5 minutes ago or 2 hours ago? Who can say? Beeping? Background noise. I tune things out so I can focus on the task at hand, so beeping won’t register with me until I can switch tasks and deal with whatever is beeping.

I’ve often wondered how my family will be able to tell if I ever do develop dementia, at least in the early stages. That’s actually how I found out I have ADHD. I struggled so much with memory and executive functioning so much I thought I was developing dementia and had a screening appointment with my doctor. Thank goodness it wasn’t that. [/quote]

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