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dikdikpronouncedxylophone · 7 months

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The most terrifying part of having memory issues is when you can feel something from 5 seconds ago be thrown out the window and there's an empty hole where it once was. You remember that you forgot something.

#amnesia #adhd #memory #memory issues #memory loss #adhd problems #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #amnesiac disorder

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solidwater05 · 5 months

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Apparently this needs to be said so

Forgetting things is morally neutral! Memory issues are morally neutral!

You're not a bad person if you...

forget things quickly

forget people

can't remember entire stages of your life

can't remember important things

can remember some things very well and forget other things all the time

can't remember things (or anything!) about your interests

forget to eat, sleep, go to the bathroom, etc

forget to reply to texts

remember things and immediately forget them again

can't remember birthdays, events, etc

frequently answer 'I forgot' to questions

can't retain new information

forget things you used to know

only remember things when it's too late

have vague, distorted and/or unreliable memories

depend on others to know how an event you were in played out

have other symptoms that are worsened by memory issues and vice versa

... and anything else I might have missed!

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plague-parade · 11 months

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i feel like we dont talk enough about how distressing and disturbing memory loss issues are. forgetting what you were talking about halfway through a sentence, putting something down and instantly forgetting where you put it. having to reread one paragraph over and over again because by the time youve moved onto the next sentence you dont remember what the one before it said. always doubting if your memories of things are real, not being able to remember important life events.

its so incredibly scary, it feels like your mind is constantly playing tricks on you and you start to doubt whats real and what isnt.

“i forgot” is treated like a lazy excuse when it’s genuinely such a big issue for so many people.

#this has been building up in me for a bit #i was talking to my mom and she brought up a concert we went to and i have zero memory of ever going #huge chunks of my life are just. gone.#every time i sew i put the needle down and spend fifteen minutes trying to find it #memory loss #memory issues #cognitive issues #cognitive decline #cognitive dysfunction

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chroniccoolness · 8 months

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this post is for the people with memory issues

people who's memories are getting worse every day, who's memories are stable but poor, people who can't remember what they did today or yesterday or this week, people who's childhoods are a faded blur. people who have slow greying-out amnesia that seems to just fade in and out of existence, and people who have complete blackouts, and people who have both. people who mourn the happy memories they know they've lost, who fear the bad memories they've lost that still affect them.

people who have "emotional amnesia" that makes it feel like none of their memories are their own, because there's few or no feelings attached. people who can ONLY remember the feelings from certain or even most memories, not actual events. people who's memory issues scare them or make them angry or make them miserable. people who's memory issues get them called childish or difficult or rude. who can't remember the names or faces of those they love. who are constantly forgetting the things that "you'd remember if you really cared". who misplace everything. who remember so little of their lives that they barely know who they are. people who's memory issues come from trauma/dissociation, ADHD, traumatic brain injury, brain fog/chronic fatigue, drug use, alcoholism. people who have no idea what causes their memory issues. people who's memory issues come from something else entirely.

i love you, you're strong, and you deserve support and care for what you're going through. memory issues can be frustrating and upsetting and disabling, and your suffering deserves to be recognized. whether you're soaring through recovery or are only ever going to get worse, you deserve good things in life and to live the fullest you can, regardless of how much you remember.

#adhd #dpdr #osdd #did #memory loss #memory issues #neurodivergent

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ariiiiilynn · 9 months

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justepilepsy · 2 months

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Headsup

In case anyone of you has been following the reveal of James Somerton's fragrant Plagiarism via Hbomberguy's "Plagiarism and You(Tube)

James Somerton has released a second response video, which may be more collected and calm, but he mentions his diagnosis with epilepsy and therefore the memory issues he suffers from as a reason for how the rampant continous plagiarism was possible to happen over and over again.

I believe him in saying he has memory issues. (I also believe him that he got fired because of his epilepsy, because sadly this is a very common occurence!)

I personally am not convinced, that memory issues cause you do copy-paste entire books and a multitude of articles into a script, close the doc, open the doc the next day and go "wow i definitely wrote all that, let me read it into the camera".

I don't remember a lot of the things I am saying, especially in verbal communication. Friends quote me back constantly and a lot of times I don't remember, I can only say "this sounds like something I would say".

My memory is very bad at times, and terribly accurate at others.

I know there are different types of memory issues.

But I can not - for the life of me - ESPECIALLY when I know I have these issues, imagine that someone with memory issues does not include pasting a link to the SOURCE of the text they are copying into their word.

I also am pretty sure, one would recognise their own writing style, even when not remembering writing something... especially in like - longform text formats.

I think also - when having a co-author, I would lean towards asking the co-author to check my writing for instances of accidental plagiarism, in order to stop it from happening (again).

But maybe this is just me. Am I being overly harsh here?

I don't want to shoot against someone who is also epileptic without reason. Please share your thoughts.

#james somerton #youtube #actually epileptic #epilepsy #memory issues #it feels like somerton came into my house and shat on the carpet #like idk it doesnt feel plausible that the memory issues are the cause of this level of plagiarism and it just upsets me #hbomberguy

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k-dhd · 2 years

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that’s adhd baby

#i don’t know what this user’s tiktok account is so i can’t tag them #if anyone knows then let me know #adhd #adhd things #adhd problems #adhd memes #adhd tag #adhd brain #adhd issues #memory issues #short term memory #adhd post #adhd symptoms #adhd stuff

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uncanny-tranny · 7 months

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To people of loved ones with poor memory:

It might be frustrating when they forget something (especially if it's important), but I can guarantee you that they are already beating themself up over having forgotten yet another thing. You don't need to rub that shame, embarrassment, and humiliation in deeper than it already is.

It is scary to forget things. It's humiliating to be told that the only reason we forget things is because we think nothing is important, that we're selfish and callous. Our brains are being pulled in every direction at the same time. It's impossible to keep track of this shit every picosecond of the day.

People like to conceptualize memory issues as a matter of lesser intelligence, that we're too stupid to even remember [minor detail]. I've noticed, though, that all of our brain power is kept toward other things - keeping ourselves alive, remembering a different thing, trying to regulate emotions or other disorders. Nobody seems to care that our workload is at least twice that of the "average" person's, I guess because they often don't directly notice it, or it doesn't directly affect them?

It's fine to be upset about the situation. You can't help that reaction, but you do not have to be cruel to people with memory issues, no matter the cause of it. Whatever they forgot might have been important to you, but there may be other things in that person's life that required their brainpower.

#disability #memory issues #memory loss #i've noticed that with a lot of conditions and issues that people are sympathetic up until it's a long-standing or chronic problem...#...people are sympathetic if you occasionally forget your lunch at home or you forget your great-great-great aunt's maiden name...#...but when it's chronic... when you forget your name or you forget where you're going or you forget something important daily...#...it becomes a you-caused issue. when it is the occasionally ill-remembered item that's a brain fart...#...it's something you can laugh off and forget...#...but if it's chronic it ceases to be a problem that's caused by other forces but is SOLELY caused by you...#...YOU are the one who CHOSE to forget these important things...#...that's what compounds the shame and grief and self-hatred and fundamental mistrust in ourselves and the world around us

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dunces-hat · 6 months

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ppl are always like “don’t you want to look at old photos and listen to your old favorite songs? Don’t you wanna look back on the past?” NOPE. that stuff is none of my business

#not true for all our alters but like #to me that’s j the traumaholders’ problems #dissociative system #system #did system #osddid #did osdd #actually traumagenic #traumagenic system #actually did #memory issues #memory #dissociative identity disorder #flittermouse speaks #teddie (me) is fronting btw #hi👋👋

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ytcomments-archive · 2 months

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#james somerton #youtube comments #tommy tallarico #his mother is very proud #memory issues #evil twin #ace couple podcast #albert einstein #vaas montenegro #hbomberguy

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schizopositivity · 1 year

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Why it's hard for schizophrenic people to get treatment and diagnosis for physical health problems:

• Having "schizophrenic" in our charts makes a lot of medical professionals automatically not believe us. Especially if it is a problem that they can't instantly see themselves. They may think we are either delusional or having some kind of tactile hallucinations. They could see it more as a "psychiatric problem" rather than the physical medical problem that it is.

• If you have flat or blunted affect, they may not believe you, especially if you are describing pain. They have the expectations that you would be screaming, crying, grimacing, etc. When you are straight faced and monotone and say "I am in extreme pain right now" they will likely not believe you. And this paired with medical professionals views of chronic pain just makes them not believe you even more.

• Alexithymia makes describing your symptoms very hard, and even harder to describe how the symptoms affect you. The medical professional goes off of what you tell them, if you are vague or don't have the words, they will not understand you or not believe what you are describing. Either way that will hinder your road to treatment and diagnosis.

• Having memory problems, or trouble keeping track of things can also hinder your care. If you can't remember, or even remember to write down how often a symptom occurs, how long it lasts, how it felt in the moment, and how it impacted your life at the time, they may once again not believe you. Diagnosis often requires some sort of timeline or prevalence of symptoms, and not keeping track of that could keep you from diagnosis.

• They may avoid prescribing pain killers (even if you need it) because the fact that schizophrenic people are more likely to abuse drugs than the general population. And while that fact is true, it doesn't mean that someone in extreme pain does not deserve the right to pain killers just as much as anyone else who needs them.

• Being part of a disenfranchised group while also being schizophrenic can have compounding affects on your physical health treatment. Being low-income, being a person of color, being assigned female at birth, being transgender, being intersex, any other disenfranchised group or any combination of these will impact how you are treated by the healthcare system.

• Fear of medical professionals, or fear of Dr.s offices can impact the quality of your visit. You may feel too frightened to tell them how you really feel, you may just completely avoid going into the building at all. This can happen to anyone but is especially common for schizophrenic people due to our paranoia, inability to advocate for ourselves, lack of self esteem, historical medical abuse or personal experiences with medical abuse. Plus we can have doubts about the quality of our care because of any of the other reasons listed above.

And all this occurs while we as schizophrenic people, are at higher risks of several physical health problems (you can read about it here):

#i will make a part 2 on how i personally deal with these issues #this itself is just to raise awareness #schizophrenia #tw medical abuse #schizophrenia stigma #sanism #flat affect #blunted affect #memory problems #memory issues #alexithymia #medical abuse #medical neglect #tw healthcare #tw drs #tw painkillers #tw medication #tw drug abuse

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furiousgoldfish · 1 year

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reblog if your short term memory AND your long term memory are both shit and wildly selective

#my brain will pick 1 event per year and remember that #and then anything else is just static #memory issues #memory loss #dissociative disorders #trauma disorders #cptsd #ptsd #trauma related memory loss

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my-autism-adhd-blog · 9 months

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Hi everyone,

I found this interesting article about autism and memory. I don’t know about you all, but my memory is not very good. According to this article:

Researchers have been aware that memory deficits or impairments can make it challenging for autistic children to socialize and engage with their peers effectively. But the exact nature of how memory deficits could manifest among autistic children was poorly understood, until now. In a recent study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, a team of California-based researchers found that autistic children tend to face difficulties in remembering people’s faces and certain types of information.

“Social cognition cannot occur without reliable memory,” senior author Vinod Menon, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine said in a press release.

“Social behaviors are complex, and they involve multiple brain processes, including associating faces and voices to particular contexts, which require robust episodic memory,” Menon added. “Impairments in forming these associative memory traces could form one of the foundational elements in autism.”

The entirety of this article will be below if anyone want to read it. I hope you found it interesting and helpful. ♥️

#autism #actually autistic #autism & memory #my memory is terrible #memory issues #i’m sure some of you can relate #feel free to reblog/share if you’d like

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howtobeapersonwithfibro · 5 months

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Memory problems are so embarrassing. I look like a normal young 20something but I cant navigate places I've been multiple times and I forget things people tell me seconds later sometimes. I feel so stupid and it shouldnt be a bad thing and people aren't even mean about it but I used to be so so sharp and intelligent. It hurts.

#my post #spoonie #chronic illness #disability #memory issues

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cheshiregrinz · 3 months

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when people say they have amnesia that means? they have amnesia???

that doesn’t mean ‘whoopsies i forgot an appointment once im so silly’

it can mean they have huge gaping gaps in my memory but it also mean:

forgetting small things that they dont remember forgetting

forgetting anniversaries, birthdays, holidays

forgetting things, remembering that they forgot something but can’t remember it

remembering things out of order

remembering things blurred

and more !! but its usually some fucked up amalgamation

no i don’t forget everything but i forget a lot! a lot of stuff that causes me distress, not remembering important life events, the last friend hangout, and more all fucking suck!

so no its not something that just makes me quirky it significantly impacts my quality of life.

#feel free to rb w your own ways you loose memories or just rants #dissociative amnesia #amnesia #memory issues #dissociation #mental health #osdd #system thoughts #dissociative identity disorder #system alters #actually did #did community #did osdd

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arecaceae175 · 10 months

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Delirium

Summary: Sky’s whittling slowed, hands lowering into his lap. His gaze was locked on Wild, as it had been for most of the afternoon. Wild wouldn’t stop twitching. Sky couldn’t figure out why.

Warnings: blood, injury, delirium, holding someone down, a Link briefly attacking another Link, panic, memory issues

Story version of this incredible art by @kikker-oma!! <3<3<3

2505 words, hurt/comfort and whump.

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Sky’s whittling slowed, hands lowering into his lap. His gaze was locked on Wild, as it had been for most of the afternoon.

Wild wouldn’t stop twitching.

Sky couldn’t figure out why. The movements weren’t huge, just small muscle spasms and strange, little twists of his head. Wild was sitting near the cooking pot and had supplies out for a nice dinner. There was a knife in his hand but he hadn’t cut anything in nearly ten minutes. He was sitting, and twitching, and staring at nothing.

It wasn’t a memory, Sky didn’t think. Wild was always unnaturally still during those. His gaze was moving so often, each time locking onto another thing Sky couldn’t see.

Sky glanced around the camp. No one else seemed to notice; they were all absorbed by their own activities.

Wild suddenly flinched violently, and his eyes darted from side to side.

That’s it, Sky decided. He wasn’t going to just sit here while something was clearly wrong. He glanced down to put his woodcarving knife into its case, then pushed himself to his feet.

“Wild?” Wind asked.

Sky’s head shot up, and so did Wild’s. Wind was standing next to Wild, one hand outstretched towards him slightly. Wild stared at Wind, silent and unmoving. Sky couldn’t see his face, but whatever it was made Wind back up a step with wide eyes.

“Wind,” Sky hissed. Wind’s eyes moved to meet Sky’s. His eyebrows were scrunched and his mouth was squiggled in a frown.

“Give him some space,” Sky said softly. “Something’s not right.”

Wind’s face shifted from confused to concerned, then his eyes hardened in determination.

“Wind!” Sky whispered.

“Wild, what’s wrong?” Wind asked. He took a step closer.

Faster than anyone could react, Wild’s hand whipped out. Wind yelped and threw himself to the side. Wild sliced the knife across Wind’s eyebrow, leaving a long, open gash. Wind cried out as he hit the ground and rolled to the side.

#ace writes #linked universe #lu wild #lu sky #the lu boyos #lu wind #lu hyrule #lu four #lu warriors #whump #hurt/comfort #tw:#blood #injury #delirium #memory issues

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