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Originally Posted by jasin1
Learn something new everyday, unfortunately I forget something I once knew at least twice a day
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I call that "the full filing cabinet syndrome".... It's not that we "forget what we knew" rather it's that we learned so much "new stuff that got stuffed in the files" that we can't find the old stuff crammed between the pages..... As soon as we "get a hint about what we can't remember, we find that file and it all "comes rushing back"...
I used to tell my aging patients who were frustrated that they couldn't remember everything this:
If you get frustrated that you can't remember things as well as in the past, "It's Old Timers Disease"...
If you "go happily on your way not remembering what you went into the kitchen to get" and it doesn't bother you to wander out of the house looking for something, not knowing what it is"... That's Alzheimer's Disease....
The fact that you know you forget things, well, that's a reassuring sign that you're "aging well"