Has anyone else gone through something where they've lost entire chunks of their life memory-wise due to illness, injury or other event?
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@mholzschlag Not an event, as much as a life-long problem with recall. Whilst I have vague images of certain events, my childhood...
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@mholzschlag might as well have never happened. Ditto much of my adult life.
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Replying to @smiffy
@smiffy Is this a problem to you and something you have sought help for? That's a lot of time to lose. Did you have a brain injury or other?

Mar 3, 2016 · 6:37 AM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
@mholzschlag the way I use @evernote plus calendar alarms is best for me. With multiple, complex, health issues, dx unlikely.
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@smiffy Being adaptable is to me the most critical skill or ability required to not just survive, but thrive. You've adapted well!
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@mholzschlag It's not a problem, in that I have never known anything else, and for a long time assumed it was normal. My more recent...
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@mholzschlag deterioration of more recent memory would be a problem if I didn't have tech work-arounds; could use paper, but...
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@mholzschlag And no known brain trauma.