Okay, so I'm gonna start by saying I'm not really sure how to explain this. Recently I've gotten more curious and confused as to what's been going on in my head my whole life. For starters, I forget things. I forget things so often that my parents and my boyfriend have always thought I just use it as an excuse to get out of doing things I don't want to do. Random things, random times. Sometimes it's so bad I'll be in the middle of a sentence and stop to take a breath and oop, it's gone and I can't get it back. Sometimes I'll remember it for days, weeks, even. Also, things need to be dumbed down dumber than dumb for me to understand them 95% of the time. I have to be shown how to do something a couple of times and do it myself in order to understand it. Vocally, I have a hard time understanding what's being asked of me. I haven't Googled anything because you know, I'll just end up thinking I have cancer or some other unreasonable issue. I was thinking maybe some form of autism or something. I started paying more attention because my boyfriend kept getting frustrated with my forgetfulness and asked me to try paying more attention to things. I just want help to get some ideas of what's going on before I have to try to fit time in my schedule to fuss with the hospital trying to figure out who I need to go to to find out what's going on. Thanks for reading, guys. :) I wanna hear ideas!

I think you can as best go to the docter for a diagnosis.

It doesn't solve the problem to diagnose youself or let you diagnose by random people on the internet.

It could be a type of disability you've had your whole life and it went undiagnosed. One thing with my disability, is I have short-term memory loss. You can tell me to "go pick up your brothers meds and bring them home" and I'll forget to bring them home. my mom tells me countless of times things she needs to get done during the day (like go to the bank and I'll drive right by it) and I always forget something. Never fails.

I'd go to see a doctor for diagnosis.

My experience with this: I forget everything if I don't write it down and before I started to see a psychologist for my psychological issues I used to speak badly (use "baby" words, short sentences, forget what I was saying sometimes). I did go to a neurologist first for a brain scan but for me this turned out negative (nothing wrong with my brains). BUT my forgetfulness and speech come from my anxiety that manifests itself. I personally don't have an issue with understanding what's being said, though.

Being shown things over and over before you can do it yourself doesn't strike me as abnormal. Maybe you're a do-er instead of a thinker, I've always had that myself. I'm a pretty fast learner though so I usually get the hang of it pretty fast.

What you can already do to help with forgetfulness is make a to-do list or put notifications in your phone so that if you need to do something after school or in the weekend you have a noisy thing helping you remember what to do (Google Keep is a useful to-do list if you have a smartphone). A whiteboard in your room for chores can also help. I put sticky notes on the fridge to help me remember what I need to do as well and for payments I put sticky notes on my computer screen. The most important thing though is that when you see the to-do, DO IT! Sometimes it's hard and you could get distracted but try to immediately do it; if you can't due to circumstances, reschedule the notification in your phone or put a red line under the to-do on the whiteboard etc.