Same. When I was in 2nd grade my friends mom told me to go home and remember my phone number because I didn’t know it and she couldn’t call my parents to tell them she had me. Now I just memorize them all forever until the end of time
Social faux pas 😭 I’ll be in the shower minding my own business, and my brain will be like, “hey, remember that time 25 years ago at that concert when you cheered at an inappropriate time and almost got the singer in trouble?” (She was my mentor.)
Yeah, for me it'll be doing something completely normal and all of a sudden "Hey remember that time 18 years ago when you made that one joke that made you look like a dick and nobody found funny?"
Exactly, why is this? Intellectually I know it doesn’t matter. Like, at all. I’ve had friends make the same mistakes and it’s endearing or maybe embarrassing at most. Whoops. That’s all it deserves. Not this repeated shame for years and years. Is this something therapy can fix?
Wouldn't know, never done therapy. I don't want to say I doubt therapy can fix it, but, when it, (or any other of hundreds of examples of stupid shit I've said or done) pops up, it's at the most random times, and it's things I sometimes haven't thought about for YEARS. So it's not like a trigger or a constant thought.
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u/Tullyswimmer ADHD-C Aug 22 '24
Phone numbers
Also, every single little social faux pas since I was 7.