This article describes my life better than I'm quite literally capable of. It's why the casual attitudes towards long covid upset me so much. I've given up urging people to wear their masks, it's too hard to take.

My memories of nursery all include, and often centre around, trying to negotiate a chaotic environment with this haze of brain sludge. I don't know what the cause is, only that it's been an impairment my entire life and it's becoming increasingly and unbearably hard to work around it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/09/long-covid-brain-fog-symptom-executive-function/671393/
What Makes Brain Fog So Unforgiving

Brain fog isn’t like a hangover or depression. It’s a disorder of executive function that makes basic cognitive tasks absurdly hard.

The Atlantic