Do you think my intellectual and cognitive issues were caused by me being hit by a car when I was 13?

[Anonymous]

When I was 13, I got hit by a car and fell backwards but I was fully conscious, I don’t think I had a concussion, and now there is problems in my working memory, but I have a pretty good memory but sometimes I would have short term memory issues. I had difficulty with processing speed and many people are noticing my intellectual and cognitive issues that looks like a disability. This causes me to have a hard time to write things that are my age level and many people say I write younger than I actually am. After I got hit by the car the hospital said I was fine and didn’t have a brain injury but even just mild ones I heard can cause these cognitive issues because ever since the accident my IQ has been lower than normal. I was wondering if this seems like it’s caused by me getting hit by the car or my disability? I was wondering what you thought because I was doing some research on this and this seems odd to me.

My lower than usual IQ was caused by me getting hit by the car even if I hit my head a little bit and fell backwards

My lower than usual IQ was caused by my disability

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Keep in mind I did have some developmental delays when I was 1 and talked later in life but my IQ has always been good as a child since I was 14. Mabye I am being paranoid I don’t know because my IQ seems too good to be true

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And it sucks that I have to be this way the rest of my life

[Effably]

Likely not but possible. The problem with medicine and health in general is that we do not strictly speaking know much at all.

We know how things should behave. We have documented instances of outliers that are hopefully honest and comprehensive.

In medicine it is ruled by qualified guesswork. Highly qualified guesswork with often millions of cases to confirm the outcomes but guesswork. Your body and brain is not something that was specifically tested for and you may respond differently.

On this case while it would not normally cause cognitive issues it absolutely can. So no one will be able to, with certainty, answer your question.

I would recommend you attempt some memory work. Learning cue models and how to apply them is healthy for anyone. It is also important to note that our mental health and state is partially caused by our own perception. You noting every time you fail to recall something and someone else noting each time they succeed will manifest two entirely different perceptions from a similar base.

That perception will in turn impact your future ability. A story about a tennis player who claimed he reportedly sucked but kept remembering the good feelings of hitting the ball and internalized those comes to mind. Someone's long life lesson short: He ended up a very successful pro player because his body mapped the successes and ignored the failures.

Our minds are mysteries but the fact that our own assumptions dictate performance is well established.

[Asker]

Really? How?

[Effably]

How what? How to improve memory? There's cue models you can practice! Memory is largely, the version I transcribe to, a bunch of hooks in our mind. When we remember things we connect to them. Practicing how to set those up is what all memory techniques do. From learning to recall numbers and words by storytelling, to linking it to smells or same environment tmwhen studying and testing. Or heck, the mind palace you see popularized by fictional characters like Sherlock Holmes is ultimately just a visualization of the cue you want. Mentally placing it in a "palace" you can revisit at will gives you access to the cue, hook, and works as a jumpstart to memory.

If you mean the whole manifestation part? There's literal thousands of experiments testing it. I am happy to link a few choice ones but the gist is that we are to a large extent what we believe we are. So believe yourself capable.

[Screenwriter]

Sounds like you'd need evaluation by a neurologist to determine this. Nobody here is a neurologist and they'd need to see you, run you through tests and try to put together a complete picture of your brain health...

[Abbycado]

Concussions do not create intellectual disabilities. They can create other issues, but are not linked to the mental illness you claim to have and then not, day in and day out.

[Alex-Snow]

Dancer... ask a doctor

[Anonymous]

It probably is unrelated

[stevenkelly]

Probably not

[Asker]

Ok good can you follow me back and dm me?