I didn’t know my best friend was two people. We never let her rewind unless we want to re-watch the last 10 minutes of whatever we’re watching. And mind you, she only needs to go back like 30 seconds. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

Watch it on your phone?

This is me with audio books while on PC

Not only does this happen with TV/movies I get it with everything. Whether or not I’m trying to pay attention.

The worst is being unable to process a word or two when someone is talking. I’ve tried all sorts of strategies, almost always the person talking restarts from the beginning and I cannot process the exact same bit. I’ve asked a speech pathologist I was seeing about it. She had not heard of it and said she couldn’t find anything the next week either.

We don’t want to miss anything. Completeness is important to us. But our minds are also moving too fast, constantly navigating ‘the thought tree’ branch to branch like a wild monkey. We let our attention slide from what’s in front of us to what’s playing inside our heads. I hope we all embrace letting ourselves slip into our own thoughts. Thank goodness movies can be paused and rewinded, I only wish I could’ve done the same in my engineering classes.

Your TV program comes on tape?

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