• Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
    67·
    11 days ago

    I forget everything until someone else randomly mentions something tangentially related and I remember the entire thing.

    • hazel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      35·
      11 days ago

      what did you do this morning?

      I… don’t know. I don’t even know what I’m doing here now.

      remember that dog that followed us around at the beach on our family holiday in 1997?

      Bensley! He was a cutie.

      • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
        14·
        11 days ago

        I didn’t expect to be called out like that this morning, I haven’t even had coffee yet! Imma just curl up in a ball in the corner for the day.

        • hazel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          10·
          11 days ago

          Hmm? Sorry I was distracted by 3 different forms of media that I’m partially paying attention to. Enjoy your coffee 💙

          • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
            5·
            11 days ago

            It was in jest I’m ok don’t worry, I’m now out running errands with coffee in hand, thank you, hope you have a good day ❤️

  • BambiDiego@lemmy.world
    27·
    11 days ago

    I’m both.

    I have short term memory (unstable)

    Long term memory (stable, unless interrupted while I’m accessing it, then I forget)

    Niche, hyper focused interest and accidentally creepy memory (etched into my soul by Kokūsō Bosatsu, the God of memory himself)

  • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
    22·
    11 days ago

    Autistic + ADHD: would you like to hear a 3 hr dissertation on the interconnectivity of plant migrations and the evolution of insects?

    Fails to log onto laptop

    Shit… What was my password again? I think it has something to do with a vacation we went on…

    • 90s_hacker@reddthat.com
      9·
      11 days ago

      This reminds of when I forgot my laptop password for like a day. I had already installed a new distro and somehow just typed in the old password on pure muscle memory

      • AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        11 days ago

        I once got total retrograde amnesia after a bump to my head, and it was hilarious how my fingers remembered my passwords even when my brain did not

  • wolo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    22·
    11 days ago

    audhd memory: i remember the license plate number of a car that i rode in exactly once when I was 7, but i couldn’t tell you what i had for breakfast yesterday to save my life

    • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      12 days ago

      I’m both in some ways, but only through abstractions. If the info is connected in some intuitive chain I remember it for life. Things like names are not at all useful to me so I forget them easily. I barely know the roads to explain how to drive to my house by names, but I have ridden a bicycle everywhere in the county and know where all roads lead. Most will take me awhile to recall well enough to name and describe, but I picture them in my head instantly like a picture of the last time I rode them. One time I worked at a horse show for a couple of weeks just doing night security. I was so bored I memorized every horse and owner’s name along with the schedule just to call everyone by name and ask them relevant casual questions. It was a challenge just to prove to myself that I could. Still it had no value to me and I can’t recall a single person or horse now; only the abstraction that I can recall around 200 names and associations if I am very very bored.

  • rwdf@lemmy.world
    18·
    11 days ago

    I forgot my debit card PIN code on vacation once. I had used it daily for years and suddenly it was just gone.

    • confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      9·
      11 days ago

      A while ago I took the opportunity to go on a working holiday in Australia for 2 years. Somewhere in the first 1/4 of the first year I forgot my debit card’s pin number. I couldn’t get a new card because I’d have to go to a branch ATM to activate the card. Which was in Canada…

      Fortunately I was able to use my credit card so I was able to survive the rest of my time there. As soon as I got back to Canada after my 2 years away, I went to an ATM and bam, remembered my PIN. I was able to get money. Which was great because I had my backpack stolen right before my 3 1/2 days Greyhound bus across Canada to get back home. I question how I’m still alive almost every day of my existence.

    • Oyml77@lemmy.today
      5·
      11 days ago

      I completely blanked on my PIN about a year ago. I forgot it for like a month and then suddenly it came back to me out of the blue when I wasn’t even thinking about it.

      Then I forgot it yesterday standing at the register for a good few minutes before I remembered again.

      No idea where my mind was.

      • Exulion@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 days ago

        I once forgot my pin at a store that only takes debit, had to have my 13yo at the time son pay and add money to his account. It wasn’t even a relatively new pin. Remembered it spontaneously like a month later.

    • hera@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      11 days ago

      I’ve done the same with a very important password for work. One day it just wasn’t there any more

  • Nate@piefed.alphapuggle.devEnglish
    11·
    11 days ago

    We found out my high school’s WiFi password was dymo$agptek14 and I’ve straight failed to enter my pin when I turned scramble numbers on. Had to pull up the emergency dialer to learn the numbers rather than muscle memory

  • matelt@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    11 days ago

    I forgot I had a medical appointment earlier today and yet I remember the cheat code you have to dial on the phone in Theme Hospital (spoiler it’s 24328). Curious.

  • SkaBunkel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 days ago

    I’m the second… As a very young kid i though it was cool and was something that would always be cool, if that makes sense.

    But as i got older it slowly (pain fully slowly) dawn on me that people thought it was creepy. Being an awkward teen it was very painful to realize that people where avoiding me because i could recite conversations that where 1-2 years old word for word, and if it’s about a girl i like, i memorize everything without trying (Worst super power ever).

    As i get older i realize i do forget stuff but this is still a big problem for me. I don’t know what is okay?(i guess) to remember and I’m soon to be 33 years old.

  • watson@sopuli.xyz
    5·
    11 days ago

    I can tell you the Konami code and the code to Mike Tyson on Punch Out! off the top of my head. Can’t remember the code to get into my garage door for the life of me.

  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
    5·
    11 days ago

    I made an appointment and forgot the next day so had to call and ask when it was.

    It was on our way back from the imaging medical people, who are located where my pediatrician was. Which I remember despite being almost 40.