When I write, things line up.

Thoughts behave. Sentences do what they’re told. I can follow an idea from start to finish without losing it halfway through, like a sock in the wash.

When I work inside systems, things fall apart.

Not spectacularly. Not in a way that would justify concern or accommodation. Just quietly, repeatedly, and with enough consistency to be humiliating. I misread instructions I have definitely read before. I forget the steps I have already learned. I make errors that suggest I am either not paying attention or actively sabotaging myself.

Neither is true, but try explaining that to a portal.

This is the part that grates.

Everyone assumes repetition equals mastery. That once something has been explained, it should stick. That competence accumulates. That if you can follow one set of rules, you can follow another.

But the brain is not a filing cabinet. It is more like a browser with too........

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