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Artifact, be well, and come back when you feel like it, okay?

posted by Blanche. on October 21, 2006 at 2:39 PM | link to this | reply

Artifact- based upon the things I have read about you being bright

and young... (assuming I remembered accurate details there.) If it is nothing you already know about as related to a physical problem it is probably just part of "growing up." When I was younger, (teen or college) I retained EVERYTHING. If you said you had an appointment at 64 Oak St. at 2:20 PM on January 15, 2007, you needed to wear nice shoes, and you should call them the night before between 5PM and 7PM, I would easily be able to tell you every detail of that if you asked me any time before that date. Now, I would retain "has an appointment sometime in January. I think. And something about calling...were they calling him?"

Now I remember different things, rather than EVERY thing.And sometimes I forget things if I don't write them down or mentally post-it note them as important SOON. It still bothers me that I don't, but now I don't think it means I am losing my mind.

Also, not enough sleep can do this...

posted by FactorFiction on October 18, 2006 at 11:49 AM | link to this | reply

Blanche, thank you! I am doing fine, actually

I just haven't felt like posting in a long time.

posted by Artifact on October 18, 2006 at 8:32 AM | link to this | reply

TV, I have one friend who has an incredible memory...

When we used to hang out a lot, I would call her my "portable memory" because I would tell her things that I needed to recall and she would remember it all for me.

posted by Artifact on October 18, 2006 at 8:31 AM | link to this | reply

Success, I need a bigger closet I think! LOL

posted by Artifact on October 18, 2006 at 8:30 AM | link to this | reply

Factor, I don't know

I think some of it may have to do with how distracted I am right now.  If I concentrate hard enough it gets better.

posted by Artifact on October 18, 2006 at 8:30 AM | link to this | reply

Artifact, that is worrisome, what you're describing seems more than just

lapses in memory, it's been four days since you last posted. I hope you're doing okay.

posted by Blanche. on October 17, 2006 at 6:36 PM | link to this | reply

I too used to have a flawless memory

Friends hated getting in arguments with me because I could quote previous conversations word for word and bust them when they were wrong.  No more.  I don't seem to have the gaps you have though.  I do use a similar tactic when facing something unpleasant.  I just know how quickly time passes, put my head down, barrel through and it almost seems like a snap of the fingers and its over.

posted by TVBlogger on October 14, 2006 at 10:24 AM | link to this | reply

I find myself doing the same.

"Don't need this anymore, put it at the back of the memory closet."

posted by SuccessWarrior on October 13, 2006 at 9:12 AM | link to this | reply

hmm is there a medical reason that I am not aware of?

or is it just the normal problems we all have with having so much more to retain as we age that the things we don't need to retain "go."

posted by FactorFiction on October 13, 2006 at 6:57 AM | link to this | reply