I forget everything until someone else randomly mentions something tangentially related and I remember the entire thing.
It's like the memories are there but something has to jog them before they'll come out of the vault.
Unindexed database, a mention unlocks the secret query to access all related information
memory issues ❎
memory recall issues ✅
This but also I have memory issues
I relate to this so hard. If somebody asks me to tell them something about when I went to school there is literally nothing there. If someone tells me about something that happened when I was at school I immediately remember the whole thing plus a bunch of related stuff
Sometimes I'd practice having mind palace and it helps until I forgot I have a mind palace.
Welp, looks like I'm in both parts of this picture.
what did you do this morning?
I... don't know. I don't even know what I'm doing here now.
remember that dog that followed us around at the beach on our family holiday in 1997?
Bensley! He was a cutie.
I didn't expect to be called out like that this morning, I haven't even had coffee yet! Imma just curl up in a ball in the corner for the day.
Hmm? Sorry I was distracted by 3 different forms of media that I'm partially paying attention to. Enjoy your coffee 💙
It was in jest I'm ok don't worry, I'm now out running errands with coffee in hand, thank you, hope you have a good day ❤️
I'm both.
I have short term memory (unstable)
Long term memory (stable, unless interrupted while I'm accessing it, then I forget)
Niche, hyper focused interest and accidentally creepy memory (etched into my soul by Kokūsō Bosatsu, the God of memory himself)
Autistic + ADHD: would you like to hear a 3 hr dissertation on the interconnectivity of plant migrations and the evolution of insects?
Fails to log onto laptop
Shit... What was my password again? I think it has something to do with a vacation we went on...
This reminds of when I forgot my laptop password for like a day. I had already installed a new distro and somehow just typed in the old password on pure muscle memory
I once got total retrograde amnesia after a bump to my head, and it was hilarious how my fingers remembered my passwords even when my brain did not
audhd memory: i remember the license plate number of a car that i rode in exactly once when I was 7, but i couldn't tell you what i had for breakfast yesterday to save my life
I forgot my debit card PIN code on vacation once. I had used it daily for years and suddenly it was just gone.
A while ago I took the opportunity to go on a working holiday in Australia for 2 years. Somewhere in the first 1/4 of the first year I forgot my debit card's pin number. I couldn't get a new card because I'd have to go to a branch ATM to activate the card. Which was in Canada...
Fortunately I was able to use my credit card so I was able to survive the rest of my time there. As soon as I got back to Canada after my 2 years away, I went to an ATM and bam, remembered my PIN. I was able to get money. Which was great because I had my backpack stolen right before my 3 1/2 days Greyhound bus across Canada to get back home. I question how I'm still alive almost every day of my existence.
I completely blanked on my PIN about a year ago. I forgot it for like a month and then suddenly it came back to me out of the blue when I wasn't even thinking about it.
Then I forgot it yesterday standing at the register for a good few minutes before I remembered again.
No idea where my mind was.
I once forgot my pin at a store that only takes debit, had to have my 13yo at the time son pay and add money to his account. It wasn't even a relatively new pin. Remembered it spontaneously like a month later.
I've done the same with a very important password for work. One day it just wasn't there any more
My kid: somehow both
I'm both in some ways, but only through abstractions. If the info is connected in some intuitive chain I remember it for life. Things like names are not at all useful to me so I forget them easily. I barely know the roads to explain how to drive to my house by names, but I have ridden a bicycle everywhere in the county and know where all roads lead. Most will take me awhile to recall well enough to name and describe, but I picture them in my head instantly like a picture of the last time I rode them. One time I worked at a horse show for a couple of weeks just doing night security. I was so bored I memorized every horse and owner's name along with the schedule just to call everyone by name and ask them relevant casual questions. It was a challenge just to prove to myself that I could. Still it had no value to me and I can't recall a single person or horse now; only the abstraction that I can recall around 200 names and associations if I am very very bored.
Sadly I have both XD.
Do they balance out?
Not at all. Completely forgetful but the littlest detail we can remember. Because of that for me atleast my time perception is even worse.
And i got gaslit a lot as a child and early teen
Ohhhh the gaslighting. Dealing with the implications of that to this day and probably will for the rest of my life.
Unfortunately not how you would want it to.
I agree
Not at all, they are absolutely not compatible XD
We found out my high school's WiFi password was dymo$agptek14 and I've straight failed to enter my pin when I turned scramble numbers on. Had to pull up the emergency dialer to learn the numbers rather than muscle memory
I'm the second... As a very young kid i though it was cool and was something that would always be cool, if that makes sense.
But as i got older it slowly (pain fully slowly) dawn on me that people thought it was creepy. Being an awkward teen it was very painful to realize that people where avoiding me because i could recite conversations that where 1-2 years old word for word, and if it's about a girl i like, i memorize everything without trying (Worst super power ever).
As i get older i realize i do forget stuff but this is still a big problem for me. I don't know what is okay?(i guess) to remember and I'm soon to be 33 years old.
better hope you never need to recompile your house
I forgot I had a medical appointment earlier today and yet I remember the cheat code you have to dial on the phone in Theme Hospital (spoiler it's 24328). Curious.
I can tell you the Konami code and the code to Mike Tyson on Punch Out! off the top of my head. Can't remember the code to get into my garage door for the life of me.
I made an appointment and forgot the next day so had to call and ask when it was.
It was on our way back from the imaging medical people, who are located where my pediatrician was. Which I remember despite being almost 40.
Get a calendar
3rd
As far as I know, im not autistic, but i have the craziest memory when it comes to music. I'll remember events from 20 years ago about what song played on the radio or what was happening when this song played. My wife thinks im crazy. Outside of this, my memory used to be ok, but in recent years, it's not so great, so it's wild that these events still get saved forever, it seems.
Are you sure it’s not that a specific memory is triggered by a certain song?
I have thought of that, but it works both ways. So sometimes it can be a special moment, and that makes sense, but other times I can be like hey remember the last time we heard this? I was washing dishes, and you were setting the table for dinner 6 years ago on so and so day. It's super weird.
Depends. I think I remember what I want to remember, however what I want to remember is remembered quite well. Although sometimes it is confusing to some people what I choose is important to remember.
If anyone knows how to forget the I Love Egg song in its entirety, please let me know. It's been 19 years.
I definitely do both of these, just at different times. My first starter Pokemon ever was a treeko, and yet i keep meeting people that apparently know who I am but fucked if I know who they are.
Both at the same time lol
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