So, did I already tell you that I have a lousy memory?
It must have been the medications they gave me when I was a kid and I had kidney failure. I know that stuffing me with Cortisone wasn’t a good thing. Nothing good could come out of that. Or it could be that my parents passed their genetic material to me, they too have really lousy memory.
This is very frustrating. I am pathetically unreliable. I have locked myself out of the car ten zillion times and out of the house about as many times. I have almost burn my kitchen, constantly forget to pay bills, forget people’s birthdays, and other assorted-annoying-events countless times. I am dangerous to myself, I cannot be relied to take medications or remember to go back to the doctor after I get my lab results. I cannot for the life of me remember to pick up things I leave repairing, or return books to the library. I don’t even have a library card anymore.
If you don’t know me you’d think I am irresponsible. I am not. I just can’t help it; and that sucks. Some times I wish I could properly bitch-slap myself.
I have this aunt whom I love dearly. In my usual style I keep forgetting (forgetting, not procrastinating) to call her. I had plans to call her on her birthday (Friday). It would have been the perfect occasion. Call her, drop by, bring cake, and make her feel how much I appreciate her. All nice and dandy, but alas, I forgot again.
Here I come; I am going to rant like you’ve never seen before. I am going to use unheard-of expletives and colourful insulting words. This will be the mother of all rants… if only I could remember what it is was all about.
I forget things all the time. I never lock myself out of my car or house, but that’s because I’m too afraid to and check my pants for my keys several times, and even then, I still think I might have forgotten my keys.
I forget to call people, write them letters, (luckily never missed paying a bill, but close on rent once).
I have ADHD, which has a sympton or side effect of forgetting in daily activities, but I also think my long term memory is slipping. I’m only stinking 22 years old and I have a bad memory. It used to be so good, but I guess the ADHD is getting in the way, or else it’s because I’m tired most of the time and don’t drink enough water.
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I have this aunt whom I love dearly. In my usual style I keep forgetting (forgetting, not procrastinating) to call her. I had plans to call her on her birthday (Friday). It would have been the perfect occasion. Call her, drop by, bring cake, and make her feel how much I appreciate her. All nice and dandy, but alas, I forgot again. "
I probably wouldn’t forget that because I would drive myself nuts by continuing to think about it over and over. Think about things, when I’m going to buy the things, what leave I’m going to take. Even after I figure it out, I continue to think about it.
I’ve been called a procrastonater before, but I’m not really.
Sometimes I’ve though of having my head checked. Maybe I suffer from of those fancy-acronyms disorders. Or maybe as my mom says “some people have blue eyes, some people have brown eyes, and some people have bad memory”.
Oh well. I am sure there is -there MUST be - some advantage to it.
Me, too, Mighty_Girl. It’s kind of a family failing, as my mom had a lousy memory all of her life. It gets worse as you get older, too. Sucks, don’t it?
Thank Og for e-mail and voicemail. I can write or call myself and leave messages at home so that I’ll remember to do things.
You know, I’m beginning to think that I too have ADD. Someone here recently said that it was not typified just by hyperactive behavior; chronic daydreaming is also a symptom. I was a major daydreamer in school, and always had a bad memory. I’ve never been able to “take mental notes” so that I could remember to do things. Drinking a double espresso improves my memory, focus and snaps me right out of daydreaming. Huh. Maybe I need to start taking Ritalin at age 46.
Does it make you feel any better to know it’s really irritating to have a nearly photographic memory? I still remember the phone numbers of people I knew in high school. Like I need THAT kicking around my head when I’m trying to get to sleep.
I sympathize wholeheartedly. While my problem isn’t a lifelong one, I feel like the past few years my short term memory has gone completely to pot.
I do know it’s a result of the medication I’m taking, and oddly enough, my long term memory (trivia on virtually anything, ferexample) seems just fine, but…
Tell me something at breakfast, and by noon I won’t even recall having the conversation half the time. A movie I saw ten years ago I can still discuss in detail, but go 'head and ask me what the last thing I saw in a theater was. Go 'head.
You’ll be wasting your time.
It sucks, so I’ll comisserate with ya if you’ll just tell me one thing…
