A U.K. study shows that people who reported long-covid symptoms for at least 12 weeks after a coronavirus infection performed poorly in tests for memory, reasoning and motor control

  • BJHanssen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have autism. First time I had covid, it got bad enough that I ended up in hospital for a week. Mentally, covid did two things; it made me a lot more forgetful in ways that I weren’t before, and it ruined my ability to focus. Effectively, due to symptomatic overlap with autism, covid gave me ADHD inattentive type. No signs of it going away, nor would I expect it to. Much of the damage caused by covid is permanent and cumulative with later re-infections, and I really wish people got that point.