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this is actually handy; i can blame long covid for all my fuckups from now on
TADA! I think I read somewhere that Covid affects the brain akin to dimentia or something like that. I don't remember the science behind it, and it was just the beginnings of the findings and I am sure that things are clearer now (a couple of years after I had read that). But I have had Covid an uncomfortable amount of times. My gal was one of the first to bring it home in the US as far as I heard it. Everyone where she was working just kept coming down with this "nasty cold" or somethingerother. They literally threw us into isolation shortly after. But I remember moments when we were just laying together in bed, sleeping our asses off and I would think "are we breathing? Am I breathing?" But I think it scrambled our brains like eggs. And we got through it. I think we came back pretty well the first time. The second time, we did alright. Still nothing long-term that seemed to be terribly messed up. By the third, I think my thoughts just decided to leave the building. I still forget whole words. They just vanish. And I get to play the world's worst guessing game. And it never got better, and at first it really upset me but now I have a real "It is what it is" kinda vibe to it, because I can't seemingly change it soooooo...
The forgetting words thing is awful. Thank god for ChatGPT or else I would never be able to remember them.
Hey, I never thought about that. I just stumble and toss our a bunch of words that I can think of that are akin to xyz and then have others become my breathing thesaurus until we arrive that that word that means __ that starts with an m. It's actually kindaaa fun in a way, because we get to problem solve as a micro-unit for two seconds and as someone who's truly, truly, truly spastic it's a nice little brain-break/aside.