In light of your response, tufguy, you certainly need to concentrate on just one thing at a time. As Piscean said, you will (and do) get confused when you have multiple threads running at the same time.
From now on, I suggest you do the following when you want to open a thread on the forum:
1. Write your post but don't actually publish it.
2. Stop.
3. Read your post several times.
4. Ask yourself:
- Is my question absolutely clear? Will the other users understand exactly what I'm asking?
- Have I used (at the very least) correct basic punctuation (question mark on a question, full stop at the end of every declarative sentence)?
- Have I unnecessarily repeated any nouns?
- Have I used an article before every countable noun? (Don't worry too much about whether it's an indefinite or a definite article, but use one of them!)
5. When you're happy you've covered those, post your question.
When you get a response, do the following:
1. Read it.
2. Read it again.
3. Read it again.
4. Read it in combination with your original question.
5. Apply every single thing contained in the response to your original sentence.
6. Write your response, asking yourself:
- Did I understand everything in the response?
- Have I taken notice of every single thing I was told?
- Have I ignored any part of the response?
7. Write your response, following the same steps I gave you for writing your original post.
If it helps you, print out this numbered list and keep it next to your computer.
We sympathise with your specific issues, tufguy, we really do but you need to understand that this forum is not really set up for helping people with special educational needs. As in a standard school, students who need extra, specialised, help normally have a specially trained teacher to assist them. The reason that it can be frustrating for us here when we try to help you is that we are not trained to deal with learners with neurological issues that affect their learning. So the problem is twofold - we don't/can't teach in the way that you need, and you don't/can't learn in the way that we are used to.
