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I don't have bad memory at all. I have no control over what I remember, though. Sometimes I will see something and know that I will remember this useless information.
And sometimes someone important will introduce themselves, and I will very badly want to remember their name, but it's gone before we're done talking.
I literally write down all names in notes. I'm so incredibly bad with name recall that I forget names of people I worked with and known for years. That app is a life saver and I open it a lot.
I also use the trick to imagine their name as something completely over the top absurd. Which works because the image is so much easier to recall. For example Karen would be then behind the wheel of a Ford Ka running on its back tires. A Ka Run... But this is very difficult to do in the moment.
Otherwise yeah I can lose names at any moment of anything at any point in time. People, towns, events, brands, objects, concepts... Just gone. My mind went passed it with a 1000 miles a minute and forgot to grab it.
Yeah, same, but it's hard for people to understand that.
One day a coworker told me he went to the doctor because of his bad memory and they were suspecting ADHD. This person is extremely well organized and methodic about every thing, the one person who was always the most likely to be paying full attention on meetings and that sort of stuff. Everything about him screamed the opposite of ADHD. And the doctor was suspecting ADHD because he forgets things and that's an ADHD symptom.
Me, on the other hand, I clearly have problems that resemble being forgetful, but I know that's not what's going on. I just need my memories to be triggered. If I'm going to the store and you ask me to bring you some coke, I'll forget about it immediatelly and won't think about it again, but if I walk past the sodas and see the coke brand, or if I do a mental check "did someone ask me to bring anything?", then I'll remember it. It's very different from just being forgetful.
(tbh the mental check sometimes will just make me remember that someone did ask me for something, but not make me remember what it was)
And imagine a scenario where I can share this useless information with someone, but that never comes.
If the subject comes with a good feeling it will be remembered. If it comes with a neutral to bad feeling it doesn’t even gets saved.
FTFY.
I might be having a different problem...