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For me it's the forgetfulness around this that really grips my shit.
I lose things because I forget where I've put them, or I forget what I was doing when I last had them. My brain just goes off on its own little track, regardless of what I need it to do, then BAM, I can't find something that my wife is asking me for.
Completely randomly yesterday, I interrupted something she was saying to me to blurt out where I put the cats' Dreamies, because I suddenly remembered that I'd put them in an out of the way place so they wouldn't get to them and tear the packet up. If I'd waited until she'd finished talking, I'd have forgotten, then we'd never have found them again.
Yessss
How about forgetting words? I'm in a profession where trust of your intelligence & knowledge is rather important to "getting shit done". And nothing tanks your reputability then stumbling mid conversation/explanation/argument because you forgot words and terms...
It's super frustrating, and sometimes I spend over an hour trying to find the word.
I'm actually quite lucky in the sense that my mind works at 100 mph when it comes to thinking up the words I want to say. It's like playing a really stressful video game sometimes, where I'm not entirely sure what words I need until I get to them, but they're almost always there when I get there.
Meanwhile, when it comes to doing productive work, I just sit and stare at my computer screen...
Ha, I'm the opposite. I can hammer out productive work, but can't remember words. Or rather, my brain runs at 100mph in circles around a word, and never actually grabs the freaking word 😅
When our forces combine, we become: Average Human, Completer Of Tasks!
Needs a midjourney image generated for it, vanilla superhero themed.
Puts me in mind of the sadly defunct blog, Superuseless Superpowers, which I used to love back in the day.