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I have ADHD as as long as someone asks "Wait, how did we get to this topic" while we are still going I can give a step by step string of tangents. Can't reliably do it after the conversation ends though.
The tangents are never random, they are always connected!
I think people get lost sometimes because the thought/story that triggered the tangent can continue for a bit before the tangent is shared. The tangential moment sticks out for the one wanting to share their tangent but it otherwise is a normal moment of the thought/story for others.
It took years of practice but I always make the tangent connection clearly when I bring it up. The other person often forgets it, but when they ask for the recap they go 'oh yeah'.
Well hey there ya go!
I mean, I probably would not... be able to recreate my own entire thought process like, the next day, unless I ended up getting hyperfocused on it for whatever reason lol.
Maybe if all the context could be recreated or described back to me, then I probably could... but, not if some bit of context that was really important to me, but totally unimportant to the other person, ended up getting left out.
If you don't know this sketch by Key&Peele already, you'll have a laugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0FMk2zUHA0