Anyone here have SDAM?
I’ve recently stumbled across this and finally understand my significant memory lapses.
Moderating:
I moved your new thread from Factual Questions to In My Humble Opinion as you’re not asking for Factual answers but looks more like opinions and anecdotes.
Also, when starting a thread, please make the OPs a little more robust. At least explaining what SDAM would have been a help.
Note to all: SDAM is probably Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory
No but I have GMARH
Thanks, What_Exit. I’m new to this and appreciate the feedback for my learning curb.
It is mentioned briefly here: Autobiographical memory - Wikipedia
With a bit more depth here: Maybe You Have SDAM? | Aphantasia Network
You are correct regarding the full name of the disorder.
What is this?
Thanks. I’ve been researching the syndrome. I’m curious as to the effects on one’s life and coping mechanisms.
Warning for @colinfred
After discussion with another Mod, I’m issuing you a warning for this.
You got a warning for something similar last year where your first post was a thread shit. In this case, you appear to have done the following:
Bad joke, thread shit and ignoring the note 1 post before on spelling out uncommon acronyms.
Very unwelcoming to a new poster.
It comes off as making fun of the OP.
Huh. I might have it. My wife and I go out to eat perhaps 4 times a month. Usually breakfast or late lunch. “Let’s go to that place we went last week” is meaningless to me.
I just don’t pigeon hole those events. Or bigger ones. We went to Hawaii. We went, uh, about 6 or 7 years ago I suppose. It was before COVID so that gives me a timeline. Sort of.
I think, that some of it is due to my very poor hearing. I have hearing aids, but just can’t wear them all the time (noisy restaurants, mowing grass, crowded parties). So I depend on context/expresions a great deal.
Luckily, I don’t miss the bar sceen or big parties. No thank you.
Compared to my siblings(we all over 50 at this point) my memories of our childhood together are fairly poor.
I have problems with anxiety my entire life and have had PTSD since early childhood. I have been told this could be responsible for my poor memory–I remember the trauma to the exclusion of everything else and being in a heightened state of anxiety all the tie can prevent memories from forming..
I have moderate, maybe severe, aphantasia but I’ve never heard of this, nor am I sure they’re connected despite the writer of @Czarcasm’s link.
Could be, though, I’ll have to do more research since SDAM does describe me. And my wife, oddly enough. Neither of us can remember more than flashes or pieces of our childhoods. When something does occur to me, it’s not visual, more like a description of what had happened than the happening itself.