Elaine H
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Hi Guys
Please give me your experiences of your memory troubles? I would appreciate it if you would tell me if friends, family, and society in general understands? I mean, truly understands. Please be brutally honest, no one but us guys is going to read this, and for all of us that have short term memory troubles, hopefully we can help and reassure each other? Hope so!
I have just told my partner that I really did not have a single memory of being at someone's birthday party, I hadn't realised that I had met this person before, and he assured me that I had, I told him "I'm sorry, but I just don't remember" and that I can say, totally and utterly without doubt, HAND ON HEART!!!! When I looked over at him, he had rolled his eyes skyward as if to say... for Chrissakes woman, don't you know anything?! I really though that he understood me, but when it comes down to it, unless you have been in this situation with short term memory trouble, how on earth can we expect people to understand??!! They all smile sweetly and say "there there, it must be awful, we understand" yeah right they do!! But of course they bloody well don't, as you can gather, I am pretty angry about this, and I feel a bit let down, I thought the only two people who understood were, my dear mum, who I lost in Dec 07, and my partner!
I always liken trying to remember something to being in a pitch black room, trying desperately to find the light switch, you know, like when we were kids, and had a nightmare, you'd try by rubbing your hands up the walls looking for that light switch, hoping to switch it on, and then ping, there it all was, just like a memory coming into your mind!
Hope to hear back from you as to your experiences, I just feel a bit let down, I know he wouldn't purposely hurt my feelings, but he kinda made me feel like an old lady in a nursing home, slobbering and talking a load of nonsense, with a brain as much use as a cauliflour!!!
lol
Lainey xx
Please give me your experiences of your memory troubles? I would appreciate it if you would tell me if friends, family, and society in general understands? I mean, truly understands. Please be brutally honest, no one but us guys is going to read this, and for all of us that have short term memory troubles, hopefully we can help and reassure each other? Hope so!
I have just told my partner that I really did not have a single memory of being at someone's birthday party, I hadn't realised that I had met this person before, and he assured me that I had, I told him "I'm sorry, but I just don't remember" and that I can say, totally and utterly without doubt, HAND ON HEART!!!! When I looked over at him, he had rolled his eyes skyward as if to say... for Chrissakes woman, don't you know anything?! I really though that he understood me, but when it comes down to it, unless you have been in this situation with short term memory trouble, how on earth can we expect people to understand??!! They all smile sweetly and say "there there, it must be awful, we understand" yeah right they do!! But of course they bloody well don't, as you can gather, I am pretty angry about this, and I feel a bit let down, I thought the only two people who understood were, my dear mum, who I lost in Dec 07, and my partner!
I always liken trying to remember something to being in a pitch black room, trying desperately to find the light switch, you know, like when we were kids, and had a nightmare, you'd try by rubbing your hands up the walls looking for that light switch, hoping to switch it on, and then ping, there it all was, just like a memory coming into your mind!
Hope to hear back from you as to your experiences, I just feel a bit let down, I know he wouldn't purposely hurt my feelings, but he kinda made me feel like an old lady in a nursing home, slobbering and talking a load of nonsense, with a brain as much use as a cauliflour!!!
lol
Lainey xx