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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 711716" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>My husband had executive function difficulties. I found out about it after he left the service and was working in the civilian world. He carried tiny notebooks in which he wrote everything he needed to do down. </p><p></p><p>When the company i worked for came out with the first electronic organizers, I got him one. He couldn't get used to it and continued to use his little notebooks.</p><p></p><p>When he died, I went through his stuff from the Army days and found dozens upon dozens of tiny notebooks. I tried going through them, but discovered that husband had invented a sort of shorthand, and other than diagrams, his notes were illegible.</p><p></p><p>This is fine in a non-combat situation, but husband saw combat, and in combat, you have got to be able to draw upon retained training as though it is instinctual, plus be able to think on your feet.</p><p></p><p>Obviously, husband came home in one piece (barely...he was cremated with a desert camo boonie hat with a bullet hole in the brim)though with the seeds of the illness that killed him.</p><p></p><p>Thing is, if kid can't think on her feet, she isn't going to make it. And in this day and age, getting "chaptered" is the least of her (and your) worries.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 711716, member: 1963"] My husband had executive function difficulties. I found out about it after he left the service and was working in the civilian world. He carried tiny notebooks in which he wrote everything he needed to do down. When the company i worked for came out with the first electronic organizers, I got him one. He couldn't get used to it and continued to use his little notebooks. When he died, I went through his stuff from the Army days and found dozens upon dozens of tiny notebooks. I tried going through them, but discovered that husband had invented a sort of shorthand, and other than diagrams, his notes were illegible. This is fine in a non-combat situation, but husband saw combat, and in combat, you have got to be able to draw upon retained training as though it is instinctual, plus be able to think on your feet. Obviously, husband came home in one piece (barely...he was cremated with a desert camo boonie hat with a bullet hole in the brim)though with the seeds of the illness that killed him. Thing is, if kid can't think on her feet, she isn't going to make it. And in this day and age, getting "chaptered" is the least of her (and your) worries. [/QUOTE]
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