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@solidwater05

[Icon ID: A pile of ice cubes. /End ID] [Header ID: The yellow gates from Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist. /End ID] // Posting about whatever my hyperfixiation is at the moment!
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Reblogged quietus-system
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seeing people my age talk about how scared they are of memory loss, which they only associate with old age, is so surreal to see as a 24 year old who has actively experienced memory loss for a long time now

there are causes for memory loss besides dementia and alzheimer’s, i hope y’all know that. dissociative disorders, trauma, brain injuries, thyroid problems, even just stress and lack of sleep can fuck up your ability to store, process, and access memory. and that’s just a few of the many causes i can think of off the top of my head right now.

please stop treating disabled people like some scary “other” that you might become only in the distant, decades-away future. we are your age, too. you may become one of us sooner than you know. stop acting like memory loss marks the end of a life, when so many of us have so much living left to do!

#memory issues#rb
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Reblogged real-camera
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seeing people my age talk about how scared they are of memory loss, which they only associate with old age, is so surreal to see as a 24 year old who has actively experienced memory loss for a long time now

there are causes for memory loss besides dementia and alzheimer’s, i hope y’all know that. dissociative disorders, trauma, brain injuries, thyroid problems, even just stress and lack of sleep can fuck up your ability to store, process, and access memory. and that’s just a few of the many causes i can think of off the top of my head right now.

please stop treating disabled people like some scary “other” that you might become only in the distant, decades-away future. we are your age, too. you may become one of us sooner than you know. stop acting like memory loss marks the end of a life, when so many of us have so much living left to do!

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kind of along with trauma but depression also causes memory loss. your brain immediately wants to forget bad experiences and that includes emotions. so if you feel depressed a lot you're liable to forget large chunks of time

yeah memory loss does suck but as someone who can't remember what happened yesterday, it's not the end of your life

#memory issues#rb#i have more trouble with short term memory than i do with long term memory#but I'm still pretty sure I'm missing chunks of my life
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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!

#muted#memory issues#adhd#actually adhd#dissociative amnesia#amnesia#memory loss#dissociative identity disorder#what other things cause memory issues#ptsd#i can't think of anything else#reminder#positivity#neurodivergent#neurodivergent positivity#memory problems#ice speaks#i tried to include as many experiences as i could think of#but out of everything i tagged i only have adhd so i probably missed a lot of stuff#so feel free to add your own experiences!#brought to you by... uh ironically i can't remember what prompted me to write this#something my mom said. i don't remember what it was tho

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