• @[email protected]
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    278 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)

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

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      99 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.

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      19 days ago

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

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      59 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.

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        17 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.

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    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…

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      98 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

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        108 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

    • hazel
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      359 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.

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        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
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          109 days ago

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

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            59 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 ❤️

  • Deceptichum
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    679 days ago

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

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      139 days ago

      I relate to this so hard. If somebody asks me to tell them something about when I went to school there is literally nothing there. If someone tells me about something that happened when I was at school I immediately remember the whole thing plus a bunch of related stuff

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        37 days ago

        Sometimes I’d practice having mind palace and it helps until I forgot I have a mind palace.

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      279 days ago

      It’s like the memories are there but something has to jog them before they’ll come out of the vault.

    • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆
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      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.

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    118 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

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    228 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

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    39 days ago

    I definitely do both of these, just at different times. My first starter Pokemon ever was a treeko, and yet i keep meeting people that apparently know who I am but fucked if I know who they are.

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    69 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.

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    Depends. I think I remember what I want to remember, however what I want to remember is remembered quite well. Although sometimes it is confusing to some people what I choose is important to remember.

    If anyone knows how to forget the I Love Egg song in its entirety, please let me know. It’s been 19 years.