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Does your ADHD make you forget?
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Short Term and Working Memory of a damn goldfish. Long Term memory is so freakishly good that people think I'm making it up.
I can struggle to tell you what I had for a meal 10 minutes after I finish eating but I can tell you the exact page and location on the page of phrases that I read in a book 20 years ago.
Why did I just go to the kitchen? Who the fuck knows. Ask me what I was doing last Thursday afternoon at 3:30 though and I can write you a detailed description of the entire days events.
Welcome to ADHD.
This is literally me, except the farther out the memory is, the clearer it is. I remember stuff that I was to young to viable be able to remember.
Same! My earliest memory is a man, who wasn't my Father, coming to the house and giving my Mother a letter. After reading she hid it inside a flower pot underneath a fake plant. It happened in 1973 when I was just about 12 months old. I know the year because I talked to my Mom about it a few years ago and after she got over her shock she told me when it happened.
Yes my Mom was a serial cheater and yes my first memory of life is her getting a love letter from one of her lovers. ๐
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