I forget medical info all the time. When was my last dentist visit? I dunno. Which kid had their tonsils out? What’s my blood type?
Wife asks “remember when I had strep last year?” No…
Has anyone in my house had COVID? I think so, but which one(s)?
I forget vacations we took, what states I’ve been to.
Terrible at remembering people that I’ve met even a bunch of times.
Horrible at work. I’m on top of what’s happening now, mostly, because I have notes, but what happened a year ago? Gosh.
It’s really frustrating living like this, but I don’t know how much might be my ADHD and how much is just me having a bad brain.
I have come to find that my memory itself is quite good. I can, in fact, remember quite a lot of things in detail.
It’s the recall part that is messed up. I can’t necessarily remember something on purpose. It might come back to me when it totally isn’t relevant or doesn’t matter anymore, so I did remember, but even trying to recall the name of a song I was listening to 5 minutes ago might be impossible even though I definitely know the name of the song; it’s in the chorus! Shit how does it go again?
This is how it happens for me. Names, dates, important details. I know them. They are on the tip of my brain. But I can’t access them in a timely fashion.
We need context.
This is what I’m like now. The memories are there, but I can’t deliberately recall them. My memory used to be amazing, and I’d be the one who could remember all the details of everything.
Now, I struggle to remember anything without context. I can’t remember most of what I did this week, but if someone said that we went to the supermarket on Monday, for example, then I’d recall lots of random details, but not necessarily anything important. It can be very frustrating.
I’m not sure if this applies to me. I mostly remember emotional moments.