At what age did your cognition start to decline?

How can we make sure this isn't age phishing?

You need to program every day , at least 3 hours. Its like any other skill. Yes, you will be slower probably, but you must train.

I was talking to someone the other day that knows a lot of stuff about brains who insisted that cognitive decline is not a normal part of aging.

If you’re worried you’re experiencing cognitive decline, perhaps you should discuss it with someone who can do appropriate investigations into possible causes for your current experience.

Hasn't yet, and this is in spite of the most earnest efforts on the part of my psychiatrists.

Most of what is prescribed for my conditions have detrimental effects on cognition, such as brain fog, akathisia, homicidal ideations, extreme drowsiness and fatigue.

In fact, today I just quit two HBP meds due to their adverse side effects as listed above (they also cause depression, etc.)

These drugs are indeed designed to hamper cognition and keep you in bed all day. They are literally chemical restraints; they substitute for shackles and leg irons. They do not heal or cure any disease; in fact they can often cause the very symptoms they're supposed to suppress.

My rule of thumb is that if any drug hampers my ability to think or stay awake through a work day, then my right to work outweighs any imaginary benefits of those chemical restraints. I won't be sleeping my life away.

Oh, my conditions, you ask? They don't bother me, don't get in the way of a normal everyday life. When I do have an episode, there's not a drug invented that could prevent it.

I'm an intellectual worker: I earn money with my mind, and doing good work sharpens my mind, like quality singing strengthens my voice. I find dignity and self-worth in employment, and nobody will take that away from me.

Always found it hard to learn new tech. I think years ago companies would be happier to give you more time to learn it on the job and that was the difference.

Getting older means holding less things in my head when debugging but thats about it.

When you have ADHD you're oscillating all your life. For some it gets better, for some it gets worse.

When my parents moved to a different part of the UK, where the water was calcium rich and we'd previously lived in a soft water location, so around the age of 13. Been downhill ever since.

What new tech? Unless it s some biotech or dark-matter discovery there is not a lot of new things to learn. What i find is i can't find things exciting enough to learn (i know about deep nets and crypto and such). Documentation is just boring

I was 56, March of 2020. After a mild case of Covid, things have been a bit foggy, in terms of thought, ever since.

With that timing, you might look into long Covid.

For me? Maybe 55? But it wasn't a sharp thing, so it's hard to put a firm age on it.

It could be a subtle amount of burnout and or low grade ME/CFS. Most people who have this don’t know it. People who work in tech are more have the underlying preconditions that increase susceptibility and onset does occur as you get older. Probably the easiest way to check is to see how you respond to a low dose of Modafinil. An unusually strong response would be indicative of an ADHD level of dopamine dysregulation.

Probably around 30 for me. I attribute most of it to burnout and family issues.

Probably around 5 or 6