Severly deficient autobiographical memory, I can only retain factual information, no lived through experiences. Though what facts get saved and what i can recall at any given moment is completely randomized and out of my control by the ADHD side.
So there’s basically no functional or reliable memory to speak of.
I am almost the embodiment of “living in the moment” because for me there actually doesn’t exist anything else, as soon thinking part of my brain shuts down or is inhibited by some drug.
It has taken me years to implement additional layer of thinking to take past and the future into consideration as something real.
I think I might have a mild form of that. I experience a kind of time blindness, which I only realized recently. Things in the past are kind of there, but not really in a coherent timeline I can access, and I know that the future exists but the difference between 3 hours, 3 days and 3 months can be hard to really grasp. I feel like I just now begin to understand how time works and how I can work with it, and I’m in my 40s.
I’d be curious about your experience, so please feel free to elaborate.
Time blindness is the same. It’s just all a scrambled mess. The only way i know when something happened is by memorizing some bigger/world-wide/huge event which i can google to know when it happened.
As for the past memories themselves. It’s just a collection of some random facts, not even details. Just the assumption of “i was there”, maybe which people were there and the rough memory of the place where that thing took place and using that i can recreate or more like use imagination to create an artificial memory. Though the vividness of it is actually under debate which was pointed out to me by someone from aphantasia community that it might actually be conceptualizing.
Basically like reading a book which describes an event and then adding myself into that event. There is no difference between my memory and that of imagining a scene described in a book, though the books one could be better as it gives more information to work with.
Severly deficient autobiographical memory, I can only retain factual information, no lived through experiences. Though what facts get saved and what i can recall at any given moment is completely randomized and out of my control by the ADHD side.
So there’s basically no functional or reliable memory to speak of.
I am almost the embodiment of “living in the moment” because for me there actually doesn’t exist anything else, as soon thinking part of my brain shuts down or is inhibited by some drug.
It has taken me years to implement additional layer of thinking to take past and the future into consideration as something real.
I think I might have a mild form of that. I experience a kind of time blindness, which I only realized recently. Things in the past are kind of there, but not really in a coherent timeline I can access, and I know that the future exists but the difference between 3 hours, 3 days and 3 months can be hard to really grasp. I feel like I just now begin to understand how time works and how I can work with it, and I’m in my 40s.
I’d be curious about your experience, so please feel free to elaborate.
Time blindness is the same. It’s just all a scrambled mess. The only way i know when something happened is by memorizing some bigger/world-wide/huge event which i can google to know when it happened.
As for the past memories themselves. It’s just a collection of some random facts, not even details. Just the assumption of “i was there”, maybe which people were there and the rough memory of the place where that thing took place and using that i can recreate or more like use imagination to create an artificial memory. Though the vividness of it is actually under debate which was pointed out to me by someone from aphantasia community that it might actually be conceptualizing.
Basically like reading a book which describes an event and then adding myself into that event. There is no difference between my memory and that of imagining a scene described in a book, though the books one could be better as it gives more information to work with.