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primitives losing memory
« on: February 12, 2009, 05:36:18 AM »
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Oh my.

And the primitives are only now finding this out, that for a primitive, the memory is a short-term, self-interested phenomenon?

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Robert Murphy (303 posts)      Wed Feb-11-09 07:41 PM
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Any Other 40+ Experience This?

Dear fellow old ****s,

Does this happen to you?:

FYI I am 41.

You have the perfect rejoinder, but a critical word doesn't come to you! You are writing, you know th perfect word but... but...

WHAT WAS IT?!??!

You're writing or worse (speaking): you have to consult your own personal thesaraus; and it comes to you!!! Great if you're writing, bugger if you're speaking.

Question: is this early. on-stage Althezheimers(sp)?

It's a very big bonfire, the primitives boasting of their absent memory-cells.

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Atman  (1000+ posts)        Wed Feb-11-09 07:44 PM
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3. I wouldn't worry about it, Robert. I'm about to turn 50 and...

...there is no doubt that...uh...I'm 49, so it means that, uh...anyway, what was the post about? Rejoinders or something, right? I don't know why I replied 'cuz I don't know shit about carpentry.

Or just about anything else.

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eleny  (1000+ posts)      Wed Feb-11-09 07:45 PM
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4. Wait till you find your car keys in the fridge

And sure, what you experience happens. Between aging and meds, it gets interesting. Sometimes I have to visualize an object and then I can remember the word for it. Oy.

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Blue_In_AK  (1000+ posts)        Wed Feb-11-09 07:45 PM
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5. Nothing wrong with that.   

Sometimes if you just stop trying to grasp the word and think about something else, the word will come to you. It happens to me, more with names than with particular words. The way I think about it, by the time you get to a certain age, you've accumulated so much knowledge that it's harder to find exactly what you're looking for -- kind of like an overstuffed file cabinet. It's all still there, just a little harder to find.

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DesertFlower  (1000+ posts)      Wed Feb-11-09 07:49 PM
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14. i'm 67. i came down with chronic fatigue syndrome when i was 48 and started having problems with my short term memory. now i don't know if it's age or the illness. both my parents had dementia. i worry.

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Winterblues  (1000+ posts)      Wed Feb-11-09 07:50 PM
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16. There is a scientific term for that ...CRS

Can't Remember Shit..

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Stellabella (608 posts)      Wed Feb-11-09 07:52 PM
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20. No, it's just a full brain.

I like the definition of simply growing older vs. Alzheimer's put this way:

If you lose your car keys, you're just getting older. If you find your car keys but don't know what to do with them, that may be Alzheimer's.

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LiberalHeart (1000+ posts)      Wed Feb-11-09 11:56 PM
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89. chemo knocked me for a loop...

Used to have a photographic memory; it's gone.

Used to read a book a week; now I struggle to get through one a year.

Short term memory: doesn't exist most days.

The change was sudden and awful and hasn't improved all these years later (18 years).

The primitive woman bothered by cold weather:

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troubleinwinter  (1000+ posts)      Wed Feb-11-09 09:09 PM
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66. I am not an "old ****".

I am 58 and am not any less mentally capable than I was at 25 (though I know one hell of a lot more).

This entire thread is an unfortunate stereotype of elder people... that they are forgetful, ditsy, less sharp, less mentally capable, losing their faculties, in other words: easily marginalized.

The thread appears 'humorous' and self-deprecating, but perpetuates and makes acceptable an ugly and unfair stereotype of elders.

Man, what an old grouch, but then here's Lisa, to lighten things:

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liberalhistorian  (1000+ posts)        Wed Feb-11-09 09:10 PM
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67. Yup, it happens to me and I'm 44.

First started noticing it a couple of years ago. It's called "hard drive clutter." IOW, by this age, our brains, our "hard drive" are starting to get a bit fuller and more cluttered and, therefore, it takes longer for our "search engines" to get through to the info it needs.

That's all it really is; doesn't mean beginnings of, of, of..........hmmmm, what's that word I want again....uh...hold on, it'll come to me........ah yes, dementia!

The sparkling husband primitive:

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Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)        Wed Feb-11-09 10:20 PM
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81. as common as common can be

I'm twenny years older than you. It just gets worse.
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Re: primitives losing memory
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2009, 05:50:34 AM »
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Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)        Wed Feb-11-09 10:20 PM
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81. as common as common can be

I'm twenny years older than you. It just gets worse.
Wow! I didn't realize he was 60! I always pictured him as a really angry 50 year old hippy!
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Re: primitives losing memory
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2009, 06:02:10 AM »
Quote from: Toastedturningtidelegs on February 12, 2009, 05:50:34 AM
Wow! I didn't realize he was 60! I always pictured him as a really angry 50 year old hippy!

The sparkling husband primitive is actually 60+, about 63 or 64.

Not only is he actually 60+, but he's circa 40 pounds overweight, which he needs to lose, given a prior heart attack and heart surgery.  But he's not going to lose it as long as he dines on luxuriant fine cuisine; sometimes one has the impression the sparkling husband primitive lives only to chow down.

It's a tragedy in the making, and one wishes it weren't so.
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Re: primitives losing memory
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2009, 07:03:51 AM »
"Between aging and meds...." it's a wonder you can still breath.
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Re: primitives losing memory
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2009, 09:13:02 AM »
The heartbreak of CRS Syndrome.

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Re: primitives losing memory
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2009, 09:23:56 AM »
Quote from: franksolich on February 12, 2009, 06:02:10 AM
But he's not going to lose it as long as he dines on luxuriant fine cuisine; sometimes one has the impression the sparkling husband primitive lives only to chow down.

I didn't know that Domino's Pizza was considered "luxuriant fine cuisine"?

Considering the type and amount of meds these creations take, I'm surprised they have enough brains left to walk and breathe at the same time.
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Re: primitives losing memory
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2009, 10:29:24 AM »
I am almost 50 and don't have that problem.  I'm going to go way out on a very thin limb and just guess that it might have something to do with constant marijuana use and the copious drugs used in the sixties.   :-)
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Re: primitives losing memory
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2009, 10:38:35 AM »
Quote from: jukin on February 12, 2009, 10:29:24 AM
I am almost 50 and don't have that problem.  I'm going to go way out on a very thin limb and just guess that it might have something to do with constant marijuana use and the copious drugs used in the sixties.   :-)

Too much LDS?

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Re: primitives losing memory
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2009, 11:53:49 AM »
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Question: is this early. on-stage Althezheimers

lol!  Alzheimer's that happens on a stage?

Hey, DUmp monkey - perhaps you meant early-stage or early onset?

Hrm...  Perhaps you DO have it.

Or you're just stupid.
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Re: primitives losing memory
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2009, 12:05:48 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on February 12, 2009, 10:38:35 AM
Too much LDS?



H5 for the Star trek IV usage.

I blame my memory loss on Halfheimer's.  That, and a tad more seriously, on a head injury I had 21 years ago.
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Re: primitives losing memory
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2009, 12:10:48 PM »
" I don't recall that".
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« Reply #11 on: February 12, 2009, 12:34:27 PM »
Quote from: BadCat on February 12, 2009, 12:21:09 PM
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