Yes! I’m 61 and for the life of me, I can absolutely never remember jokes . . . no matter how many times I’ve heard them . . . I love jokes and funny stories, but even at this moment, cannot remember not even one
N, S, E, W… Do not even try. Maps will do you no good, it makes it worse. I require gps navigation at all times. You could point me north and somehow I’ll be convinced I’m going SW while managing to redirect myself slightly E.
Why is the sky blue? Why does a negative times a negative equal a positive? How does technology work? Why does communism not work (assuming it’s genuine and not used as a way to control society)? Why does curly hair naturally curl? I look things up so often but the info literally never sticks š
I sure do, canāt remember what right now, but I know every now and then I get the Ā«Ā oh but I knew that and forgot again, letās remember it this time !Ā Ā». And totally manage to forget that exact same thing all over again.
My wife never remembers anything I told her, but she does remember having a conversation with me in her head and then gets mad at me for not remembering.
I have inattentive adhd and this is an ongoing problem for a lot of explanations. The one that probably affects me the most is how to place commas. I’ll look it up once a year, or even ask my English major mother and sister. When I was in school, there would just be a sea of red marks saying “comma splice.” Getting the adhd diagnosis did kind of help. For the longest time, people would suggest “where your brain naturally pauses.” Which makes sense if your brain doesn’t go nonstop as one run-on sentence.
Films. It just doesn’t stick. Books I can remember, but I’ll watch a film and by the time I’m at the end of the film I can’t remember what happened at the beginning. I have a very hard time telling people apart in films too, so that doesn’t help.
Betting, the over and under, parlay, all that stuff; anything and everything my wife tells me; math equations, I’m not trying to be Will Hunting, just trying to remember how to multiply fractions, and what order do you solve the problem; pronunciation of Portuguese sounds; and rules to games. I always need a cheat sheet when I am doing certain things.
yes, and I was helping a coworker study for her citizenship test and I realized that I can’t remember how many seats there are in the house of represntatives.
the periodic table of elements. Iāve had a poster in my room for years, and yet I can only remember a few of them. Also i have never remembered which shaker is salt or pepper, apparently they have two and three holes and thatās the way to tell them apart, so i always end up with salty ribs and pepper on my cucumber slices.
Iām the WORST with remembering peoples names. You could tell me ten times and Iām still gonna forget it if I need to remember it. If Iāve been told a few times I may or may not understand who youāre talking about if brought up in conversation. Itās very frustrating
I have a pretty strong memory, but I can forgot things along the way. I can say something out loud and instantly forget, verbatim, what I said. But can remember every song lyric lol
the word ‘scaffolding’, meaning the metal framework you put up around buildings to work on them. ALWAYS have to think hard about what the word is — even when seeing the structures right in front of my face.
In a tense situation it would be better to tell me A or B rather than right or left because in the alphabet the A is always to the left of B but ‘Left’ or ‘Right’ aren’t visually attached to anything in my head strong enough for it to be immediate. Thinking of the L with the left hand would still be an extra step, where as A or B would be instinctive.
I donāt know how on earth people play Magic the gathering, successfully.
*Wait, this card does what, specifically? To who, specifically? Only if, when, specifically? But first what, specifically, needs to be in place? And what color, again?ā
Yep. My biggest one is probably the whole first cousin, second cousin, so-and-so once removed, et cetera. People have explained the once/twice removed thing to me a million times but I never, ever remember. Like wtf is a second cousin twice removed?! I’ll never know, š¤£.
oh yeah, completely relate to that. It’s like my brain hit a hard stop on understanding how cars work. My friend tried to explain engine stuff a million times, but I just nod and pretend to get it now. It’s like, I can follow along on the most intricate storylines of movies or series, but this one topic just slips away every time. The same thing happened with me learning to solve a Rubik’s Cubeāit never got through no matter how many techniques I tried. So now, I just stick to things that make sense to me. I don’t think I’m ever going to need to know about engines unless my car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, right?
We have a lookout tower in the next town over thatās a tourist thing and itās been there for ever and itās not huge but also is the tallest structure in the surrounding area. We also have a water tower in the town we live in and every single time I see the water tower I asked my husband is that the ā_____ towerā and every time he says āno thatās the water towerā I know itās the water tower but for some reason my brain just refuses to remember or maybe believe itās the water tower and not the lookout tower.
I can never seem to get the āme and himā or āhe and Iā or āhis and mineā thing straight no matter how many tricks Iāve learned or how many times I look it up. Iāll just rephrase the sentence so I donāt have to deal with it.
I have memory issues from a few things including severe inattentive adhd, and some chronic illnesses etc and so I struggle to remember things that happened very recently but the older an event gets the better I remember it! Itās like as the memory ages it becomes more clear lol
How an air conditioner works. I have a college degree. I teach autistic kiddos. But every time somebody explains to me how an air conditioner works it just kind of slips in one ear and out the other and I’ve never been able to let it get it to stick.
Yes. I have had spatial awareness and mechanical maths explained to me and I still cannot rotate a shape in my mind, I still cannot understand or create or work through a mechanical equation which includes time, space and velocity. Only part of my A-Level maths I failed at!
I am kinda good at remembering stuff in the kitchen like cooking meals, but when it comes to baking stuff like cakes or pastries I can never remember ingredients and steps, like simple as a fucking pancake. I will either ask my mom to run me through the steps or hit up google.
Which is the former and which is the latter. I have to deduce which one it means from context every time I see it which interrupts the flow and reread the whole paragraph again. Iām 43, reading big-girl books since 5, and still will not remember which is which.
Yes! For me, itās (annoyingly) the difference between the US House and the Senate! E.g. what each side does, how many people, etc. I have had people try to explain it to me countless times and have watched tons of videos about it. Why wonāt it stick?! It makes me feel like uninformed and itās frustrating!
Strategy games. If it takes longer than 1 minute to explain the rules, my mind goes off somewhere else entirely š justā¦. Can we just play Yahtzee? Or Sorry?
I don’t remember large chunks of my childhood. My siblings have told me what happened, only for me to completely forget the entire thing. My daughter had 3 major surgeries. I slept at her bedside every night but don’t remember it. The brain is wild.
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Yes! I’m 61 and for the life of me, I can absolutely never remember jokes . . . no matter how many times I’ve heard them . . . I love jokes and funny stories, but even at this moment, cannot remember not even one
N, S, E, W… Do not even try. Maps will do you no good, it makes it worse. I require gps navigation at all times. You could point me north and somehow I’ll be convinced I’m going SW while managing to redirect myself slightly E.
Why is the sky blue? Why does a negative times a negative equal a positive? How does technology work? Why does communism not work (assuming it’s genuine and not used as a way to control society)? Why does curly hair naturally curl? I look things up so often but the info literally never sticks š
I sure do, canāt remember what right now, but I know every now and then I get the Ā«Ā oh but I knew that and forgot again, letās remember it this time !Ā Ā». And totally manage to forget that exact same thing all over again.
using OBS studio software š¤£
My wife never remembers anything I told her, but she does remember having a conversation with me in her head and then gets mad at me for not remembering.
I have inattentive adhd and this is an ongoing problem for a lot of explanations. The one that probably affects me the most is how to place commas. I’ll look it up once a year, or even ask my English major mother and sister. When I was in school, there would just be a sea of red marks saying “comma splice.” Getting the adhd diagnosis did kind of help. For the longest time, people would suggest “where your brain naturally pauses.” Which makes sense if your brain doesn’t go nonstop as one run-on sentence.
The passcode to my downstairs carpark
Pretty much anything where math is involved
Films. It just doesn’t stick. Books I can remember, but I’ll watch a film and by the time I’m at the end of the film I can’t remember what happened at the beginning. I have a very hard time telling people apart in films too, so that doesn’t help.
Betting, the over and under, parlay, all that stuff; anything and everything my wife tells me; math equations, I’m not trying to be Will Hunting, just trying to remember how to multiply fractions, and what order do you solve the problem; pronunciation of Portuguese sounds; and rules to games. I always need a cheat sheet when I am doing certain things.
yes, and I was helping a coworker study for her citizenship test and I realized that I can’t remember how many seats there are in the house of represntatives.
spelling words with āieā and āei.ā always, always get it wrong.
The difference between affect and effect
Chess. I’m 72 and cannot for the life of me understand whatever people tell me about chess. It doesn’t stick
Always need to think about which way is left and which is right.
I get it wrong a lot.
Math. Card games. Phone numbers. Birthdays. Anything to do with numbers.
Fractions š”
the periodic table of elements. Iāve had a poster in my room for years, and yet I can only remember a few of them. Also i have never remembered which shaker is salt or pepper, apparently they have two and three holes and thatās the way to tell them apart, so i always end up with salty ribs and pepper on my cucumber slices.
Iām the WORST with remembering peoples names. You could tell me ten times and Iām still gonna forget it if I need to remember it. If Iāve been told a few times I may or may not understand who youāre talking about if brought up in conversation. Itās very frustrating
I have a pretty strong memory, but I can forgot things along the way. I can say something out loud and instantly forget, verbatim, what I said. But can remember every song lyric lol
the word ‘scaffolding’, meaning the metal framework you put up around buildings to work on them. ALWAYS have to think hard about what the word is — even when seeing the structures right in front of my face.
How to spell anesthetist. Although spellcheck is telling me I did it right for once…
The setting in which you de fog the inside window in the car š°
What was Chandler’s job on Friends? It has so.ething to do with the W.E.E.N.A.S. report.
I have watched the show a thousand times and can’t remember his job.
The rules to sports. I just will not waste the brain space.
In a tense situation it would be better to tell me A or B rather than right or left because in the alphabet the A is always to the left of B but ‘Left’ or ‘Right’ aren’t visually attached to anything in my head strong enough for it to be immediate. Thinking of the L with the left hand would still be an extra step, where as A or B would be instinctive.
I always mess up necessary. I can remember the two sleeves one collar thing but I can’t remember where they go.
The difference between a tornado watch and warning.
Why isnāt it warning you that itās heading to you??? I hate it
Algebra…as soon as the alphabet gets introduced to math , I’m out.
I donāt know how on earth people play Magic the gathering, successfully.
*Wait, this card does what, specifically? To who, specifically? Only if, when, specifically? But first what, specifically, needs to be in place? And what color, again?ā
Things my wife has committed me to.
Yep. My biggest one is probably the whole first cousin, second cousin, so-and-so once removed, et cetera. People have explained the once/twice removed thing to me a million times but I never, ever remember. Like wtf is a second cousin twice removed?! I’ll never know, š¤£.
Yes but I canāt remember what they are.
Math , math & math!
oh yeah, completely relate to that. It’s like my brain hit a hard stop on understanding how cars work. My friend tried to explain engine stuff a million times, but I just nod and pretend to get it now. It’s like, I can follow along on the most intricate storylines of movies or series, but this one topic just slips away every time. The same thing happened with me learning to solve a Rubik’s Cubeāit never got through no matter how many techniques I tried. So now, I just stick to things that make sense to me. I don’t think I’m ever going to need to know about engines unless my car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, right?
Yes the spelling of the words colleague and renaissance
Yeah a lot
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Math or some scientific crap lol
We have a lookout tower in the next town over thatās a tourist thing and itās been there for ever and itās not huge but also is the tallest structure in the surrounding area. We also have a water tower in the town we live in and every single time I see the water tower I asked my husband is that the ā_____ towerā and every time he says āno thatās the water towerā I know itās the water tower but for some reason my brain just refuses to remember or maybe believe itās the water tower and not the lookout tower.
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I can never seem to get the āme and himā or āhe and Iā or āhis and mineā thing straight no matter how many tricks Iāve learned or how many times I look it up. Iāll just rephrase the sentence so I donāt have to deal with it.
I can never remember who Jennifer Hudson is. The second I’m not looking at her I completely forget what she does and what she looks like
I have memory issues from a few things including severe inattentive adhd, and some chronic illnesses etc and so I struggle to remember things that happened very recently but the older an event gets the better I remember it! Itās like as the memory ages it becomes more clear lol
Iām learning Japanese and it feels like every time I finish a lesson, I instantly forget everything I just read.
How an air conditioner works. I have a college degree. I teach autistic kiddos. But every time somebody explains to me how an air conditioner works it just kind of slips in one ear and out the other and I’ve never been able to let it get it to stick.
The names of chemical ingredients. They all sound the same to me, like a divine book.
Yes. I have had spatial awareness and mechanical maths explained to me and I still cannot rotate a shape in my mind, I still cannot understand or create or work through a mechanical equation which includes time, space and velocity. Only part of my A-Level maths I failed at!
Algebra.
Baking powder vs baking soda
I am kinda good at remembering stuff in the kitchen like cooking meals, but when it comes to baking stuff like cakes or pastries I can never remember ingredients and steps, like simple as a fucking pancake. I will either ask my mom to run me through the steps or hit up google.
deferred tax
have a whole degree in accounting yet////
Oh yes, we are all none the wiser. May be many of us hit our head in the same place when we were babiesš
Which is the former and which is the latter. I have to deduce which one it means from context every time I see it which interrupts the flow and reread the whole paragraph again. Iām 43, reading big-girl books since 5, and still will not remember which is which.
Percentages.
I can figure it out of 100 but please don’t ask me for 30% of 432 or something just please don’t.
It’s like a mental block. It goes in one ear out the other. I won’t remember two minutes later
Port and starboard
some of the main ones:
I don’t remember
Football. Many people have tried to explain it to me but I just canāt retain the information.
Someone’s comment about nieces, aunts, etc, brought up a good one for me. I don’t get the 2nd cousin references, or the “once removed” crap. What?
The definitions of legal terms like arraignment and indictment.
Yes! For me, itās (annoyingly) the difference between the US House and the Senate! E.g. what each side does, how many people, etc. I have had people try to explain it to me countless times and have watched tons of videos about it. Why wonāt it stick?! It makes me feel like uninformed and itās frustrating!
The monty hall Math problem
Physics, and how to drive stick shift.
Everything
Iām obsessive iver college football conferences, mascots and cities.
Iāve seen nearly every NFL stadium with my own eyes and toured a bunch of them
I have NO idea who is in what NFL conference and I donāt know I ever willĀ
Strategy games. If it takes longer than 1 minute to explain the rules, my mind goes off somewhere else entirely š justā¦. Can we just play Yahtzee? Or Sorry?
I don’t remember large chunks of my childhood. My siblings have told me what happened, only for me to completely forget the entire thing. My daughter had 3 major surgeries. I slept at her bedside every night but don’t remember it. The brain is wild.
I don’t think I’ll ever rememember how to spell necessary.
How a car engine works