I have so much trouble following basic instructions and understanding concepts that it’s making me depressed because I want to quit jobs all the time.

I know I have qualities like social intelligence, knowing a lot of things due to always researching different topics and when I try I can become really good at whatever I’m doing. But what does it matter if I can’t understand my task without asking my boss to repeat it a hundred times. And then I’ll forget it in 5 minutes unless I have it written in extensive detail. Nothing I’m good at can help me in the real world.

I’ve also been noticing serious cognitive decline where I keep forgetting words and have a vocabulary of a middle schooler even though I’m a big reader. I have to google movies after I watch them because I didn’t follow the story and I feel incompetent because I avoid trying to learn anything that sounds difficult to me (cooking, important things like doing taxes etc). I was never a prodigy but I feel like I’ve regressed.