Colman Noctor

It's your capacity to organise thoughts in your head around what to do.

So if you were sent upstairs and said, come and go up there and get a towel, the black hairbrush, a toothbrush and toothpaste.

I would go up there and by the time I got halfway up, I would say there was a toothbrush in there, but the rest is gone.

So I would be back downstairs and I would try and...

rack my brain and think, because I really wanted to remember when you were telling me, like, and asked me to do that.

I want, like, I want to not disappoint you, but it's gone by the time I've gotten up there.

And it's not necessarily that something else has jumped into my head or anything like it.

I just, I can't make that recall, you know.

And again, it's not like a dementia thing.

I know that I've been asked to get something, but I just can't remember what that was.

Yeah, yeah.

My mother, I genuinely think the reason I don't, I didn't realise I had it was because she was on my shoulder the whole time.

Do you know what I mean?

Like, I'm the youngest of three and my sisters would always say I was spoiled.

Do you know what I mean?

But I don't think I was spoiled.

I was probably scaffolded.

Like, my mother was on my, like...

like have you done your homework yeah throw me out your journal there and we'll go through it and make sure that you have and i'll be like 17 years of age going mom nobody goes through their journal but she'd be saying no we'll just have a look to it because i would have gotten in trouble loads of times for not having the homework and she she would know that i'm not a kid who doesn't do homework because of brazenness i would just i would want to bring the homework in and i'd be

dreadfully conscientious if I didn't have it, but I was forgetting it anyway.