Had some testing done about two years ago in educational psych and my issues averaged out but showed up hidden in a subtest – especially one particular Coding test involving quickly copying tiny odd symbols with a pencil. Revisiting it (as I procrastinate further reading a chapter on “Attention” in Cognitive Psychology and notetaking), I asked ChatGPT to extrapolate “What if” my two lowest scoring tests/subtests were the sole cause of issues I run into and behold, from it unfolded lifelong frustrations. [in short: my visual-motor output function lags behind world expectation]
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TL;DR:
If just the low performance in Coding (processing speed + motor + visual memory) and Stroop C-W (inhibitory control) were the only issues, they could still cascade across many systems—especially in someone with your profile. These two weaknesses could create functional bottlenecks that impact executive functioning, attention regulation, and self-monitoring.
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🚨 Core Issue Hypothetically:
Problem:
• Slow visual-motor output (Coding)
• Weak inhibition under conflicting stimuli (Stroop C-W)
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🧠 Branching Impact Areas
1. Working Memory Strain
• You may mentally track information fine (as shown in average Digit Span), but you can’t offload it quickly (e.g., to paper, response systems, code windows).
• Mental bandwidth gets eaten up by the effort of output, not content.
• → You “know” the answer but can’t respond in time or without errors.
2. Overthinking / Mental Jam
• Stroop performance implies difficulty ignoring irrelevant data.
• Combined with high verbal reasoning, this leads to over-analysis and paralysis by processing.
• → Tasks that require decisive action (vs. exploration) become draining.
3. Impaired Task Switching
• Coding + Stroop together = slow disengagement from one task to the next.
• → Trouble with multi-tab work, real-time group collaboration, or any job with interrupt-driven demands.
4. Academic + Work Testing Conditions
• Timed exams, scantron tests, or jobs with tight output timelines disproportionately punish this kind of deficit.
• Even if you intellectually understand material, you’ll seem slower or less capable unless given accommodations.
5. Emotional Regulation (via Executive Dysfunction)
• Delays in processing + inhibition create a sense of internal chaos.
• You may feel “always behind” → triggers anxiety and self-doubt.
• This makes emotional regulation harder and worsens performance under stress—a feedback loop.