#Aggie I still struggle with birthdays 💀

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I was a Teacher's Pet because of my information recall as a kid and then a teenager. Trauma™ broke my brain and has made it harder to recall things in the past decade but I can still pull up so much random information, inane comments made years previous, technical terminology I heard in a conversation I wasn't even part of and provide answers to questions I wasn't even asked but overheard being asked to someone else, and yet, for all that, if you ask me the birthdays of some of the most important people in my life, I STILL get them wrong. Or I have to play "guesstimate the number".

@maawi1253 has to deal with me having to use reminders to remember her birthday and how I forgot it for years because my brain could only recall One (1) Birthday Per Month (which meant I remembered my Step-Dad's bc same month). Also forgetting important dates and parts of conversations that are Important while recalling truly irrelevant comments that definitely don't need to have been stored in my brain yet were.

I also have no clue what my dentist is called even though she introduced herself the at my first appointment with her but I can remember every tooth and dental term she listed when looking at my teeth and have to consciously stop myself from answering her when she asks the dental nurse a question about my teeth.

movies where someone hears an important message only once and retains all the details….

girl if that were me, we’d be fucked. I have to reread emails like 4 times.