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There’s something so uniquely terrifying about memory issues. I feel like my self is slipping away from me.
ace-disgrace-on-the-case - Here’s the thing I feel like a lot of folks don’t get: I’m not trying to forget what you said. Honestly, I really tried not to. I can’t control what I do and don’t remember—forgetting things just happens. It’s annoying for you, I know, but for me it’s distressing as hell and when you make a big deal out of it rather than just reminding me you make me feel ashamed. I’ll remember that, at least.
It costs you nothing to be kind to people with memory problems. Please. It’s scary enough without people treating memory lapses as a personal failing.
Maybe not great for this exact sort of thing, but if you really need to remember a thing, mnemonics are stupid powerful.
Reading in bed this morning I realized I needed to get my daughter a stopwatch for Christmas. Too lazy to get up and go find one to order, so I made a quick mnemonic. I imagined sitting down to my PC with my coffee, powering on the TV, logging in and seeing a flood of stopwatches pouring out of my screen. Everything I clicked, more stopwatches!
Sat down at the PC this morning, “Shit! I need to find a stopwatch!”
The crazier and more surrealistic you make the scenario, the better it works.
Well that would heavily backfire for me because then my mind checks it off as done and I wont think about it until it’s to late.
yep that’s how it works for me, too, most of the time
a more limited version of what they described does sometimes help me out, though. for short term stuff to avoid the “I just entered this room and I have no idea why” scenario