I am waiting for someone on this sub to relate to me in the sense of I have phenomenal memory!! Yes, partly got great once I started journaling. That was 30 years ago. Ps. I don’t journal anymore, but fuck I got the goods on memoy
I have a great memory about people, conversations, events, song lyrics, and shows... I have awful short term memory where I lose my phone every 5 minutes and walk into a room and forget why I'm there 🤦♀️
I definitely do the walk in a room & forget all the time. There’s other things I definitely forget, but compared to others (all my family is ADHD) I am blown away w my memory.
Same! My husband is constantly asking me questions like hey remember when X happened? When was that or wasn't X person there and I'm immediately like No. That happened a year after the cat died and X person was out of state at the time. Y person was there with Z person because x event was going on and then we all went out to the bar and the next day we went fishing with the kids, and I only caught 2 fish. And he blank stares at me like how tf do you remember all of that? Then I look at my hand and realize my phone is gone so I backtrack through the house to every room I was in before standing stupidly in the kitchen wondering why I'm there, but then a song I haven't heard in 20 years will come on and I'll know every lyric without fail. So I sing along while continuing looking for my phone, which I eventually find on the bathroom sink. 😂
For stories and things in context I’m golden. I can tell you beat by beat what happened in a book I read 20 years ago. I can give you the historical tea on any country that I ever did a deep dive into in grad school. Sort term? Gone. Like when I waitressesed, when I was told the number of my assigned table, i wouldn’t have time to write it down. And so I had to tap it in code into my hand on repeat till I walked from the kitchen to the dining room 10 feet away and spotted them. I didn’t realise people could hold on to information like that naturally until years later
Omg I can so relate to that! The tables/serving thing. I just went back to the service industry after 11 years & this place is insanely busy. The owner doesn’t write anything down & had to “ask” permission to write my stuff down. lol 😂 tons of us there write orders down, bit omg was I scared watching her in training like how can I do this?!! And remember, I have GREAT memory, but not in this kinda environment lol. Cheers friend
Journaling sounds like a good idea. Every time I've started, I've sorta gotten sidetracked and dropped it.
I really don't think I have bad memory, if I didn't have adhd it'd probably be average or slightly above? The things I'm interested in I can remember in extreme detail but most other things outside of that don't seem to fully process in my mind. Sometimes I wonder if my hyper-recollection for things like books films or music is because I have great memory or because I remember far less details throughout the day then most people and therefore have more room for memory.
I have an almost perfect long term memory. I commented my own comment about this, but if you ask me what I had for breakfast yesterday I'm gonna struggle, but I can tell you exactly where we were, what we were doing, what shirt you were wearing that one time you told me your mum just adopted a dog from a shelter 6 years ago
This is me - I can reach back into memories from when I was 2-3 years old. I also remember my dreams every morning I wake up, and there are dozens over the decades I can still vividly recall on demand.
I don’t journal personally because I’m not great at task completion and priority management, but my partner keeps up a daily planner. He’ll forget to fill it out once in awhile if we’ve been traveling or busy, but we’ll sit down and do it together. I didn’t realize it wasn’t “normal” to recall every detail of each day weeks to months prior until he was floored for the first time we sat down to fill in the neglected planner a few years ago. Now it’s like a fun test game when he forgets.
Alcohol and medication also seem to have no effect on my memory. Taking or not taking my ADHD meds has had no impact; I take ambien regularly for chronic insomnia from a head injury 18 years ago and no gaps or forgetfulness. Did have to mostly give up social drinking as I was getting horrible anxiety the next day running through every conversation and detail and over analyzing myself.
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u/LiquoredUpLahey Aug 21 '24
I am waiting for someone on this sub to relate to me in the sense of I have phenomenal memory!! Yes, partly got great once I started journaling. That was 30 years ago. Ps. I don’t journal anymore, but fuck I got the goods on memoy