At what time of life do people start forgetting things?

Relate to your being a stupid cunt?

No, troll.

No.

From which angle?

[quote]I've just turned 62, but look 26 at a certain angle

Is that 26 in dog years?

From what angle —-in the dark?

What angle? The bottom of the deep end of a swimming pool looking up to surface?

OP, we’ve already told you twice.

0/10

I'm 69 and noticed that I was having trouble remembering people's names about 4 years ago. Otherwise I do pretty good for an old codger.

Sorry, who are you again?

That's already starting for me and I'm only in my 40's.

I was reading that getting enough sleep is important to our memories--and that part is the focus of sleep until about 1 am.

So, the longer we sleep prior to 1 am, the better for your memory

Forgetting why you went into a room can happen if you're overwhelmed and have a lot going on at once. Are you forgetting things like the day of the week, appointments, long term memories or is it just this short term stuff?

R10 do you also mean you need to go to bed earlier? If so, when?

R12, the article was recommending 10 pm, but that's not possible for most, especially "night" people. 11 pm at the latest gives enough time to help your brain improve memory by 1 am.

[quote]At what time of life do people start forgetting things?

I forget.

R11 reminded me. I quite often will decide to go do something or look for something in another room, and by the time I get there I will have forgotten why I went there in the first place. But usually after a few minutes it'll come to me.

I won't get worried until I start forgetting important things.

Op dearest, I hope you didn't forget about some cock in the bedroom, while you were fussing with your muffin in the kitchen?

I'll be 60 next month and this happens to me but I'm sure it happens to pretty much everyone at some point.

I wear a FitBit and it vibrates at 10 to the hour to let me know if I haven't gotten 250 steps for the hour. It seems like every time it goes off, I have to go to the bathroom (maybe I'm Pavlov's dog?). I'll go to the bathroom but will forget to get my steps in. It also happens when I go to Google something. I'll start looking at the suggested stories and boom! totally forget what I was going to look up!

I remember my Mom leaving the milk on the table and then complaining she couldn't find the dish cloth. Turned out, she put the dish cloth in the fridge instead of the milk. The milk was on the table because she was going to use the dish cloth to wipe off the kitchen table.

This thread is just one cunt talking to itself.

I wonder if it is only made worse by the fact that we can jot everything down on the list in our iphones.

Once it's on the list I can forget it. I wonder if keeping these things in your head actually exercises your memory

LOL, R18. Maybe the poster forgot who they were talking to!

My partner told me to start doing Wordle to improve my memory. However, I can't remember many five letter words.

[quote]I've just turned 62, but look 26

So you're dyslexic.

OP this is the 3rd time you've started this thread!

I am 50 and my memory is slipping. Last week I responded to a poster on DL that I thought was brilliant. I posted that I felt the same way about X subject (I remember what it was but I’m not telling you bitches so you can go look and make fun of me)”. I later realized that I responded to myself, and the thread had been bumped from last year.

I’m 67, but forgot that I looked 37, so I was surprised when the clerk at the register denied me my senior discount…

Have you ever felt like you're stuck in a time loop?

Like Groundhog Day movie?

About forty five minutes into cocktail hour.

I'm 68 and I'm trying really hard to forget this thread, but I can't seem to, so forgetfulness must start at an age older than me

Baby Boomers couldn’t stand to be thought of as losing their memory so they came up with the cutesy, “Having a senior moment.”

Hate to burst your boomer hate bubble, sonny, but "senior moments" were around long before boomers. Yes, Virginia, there was a world before 1950

I can't remember a lot of things other people do about doing together. I mean a lot. I'm like, we did that? We went there together? Sometimes they jog my memory, other times i still blank out.

Birth.

Multi-tasking becomes more of a challenge as you get older, it's a fact for most people. Those who can reach into their 70s and 80s and still function mentally as quickly or as sharp as when they were in their 30s and 40s are super rare.

What was the question?

Well, I'm 60 and I look 09 from the upside down angle.

Most experience forgetfulness around 9:15 am. slightly later on holidays and weekends.

OP, catch up on you sleep, lay off the hootch and weed, and get your thyroid and B12 levels checked before you check into the dementia ward.

*your sleep

Hahahaha

I don't understand the question 🤔

[quote]I've just turned 62, but look 26 at a certain angle

OMG, me too!

Listen y'all, I just want to dance and twirl...

OMG! Did someone say I'm pregnant?

I look good in low light in a house. Not good in full sunlight. Women my age look so old. I still have thick coloured hair.

It doesn't happen to everyone. I have a shit memory and I'm in my 40s, but my 91yo grandmother remembers EVERYTHING.

Sorry OP, can't relate at all. I'm plagued with almost total recall. If I concentrate/focus, whatever I'm concentrating on goes into my memory banks and never, ever leaves. Sometimes I have to spend a minute or two digging around my memory banks, but it's always there. And I always find it.

[quote] but my 91yo grandmother remembers EVERYTHING.

Except for where she put her specs. (Pssst, Nana, they're on your head!)

I've just turned 62, but look 26 at a certain angle.

Which angle?

I have trouble with names sometimes, but I always remember, just not in a second or two. Sometimes it takes up to a minute, which is why I don't do as well with Jeopardy questions as I used to.

R46 Everyone knows that Nana is none other than DL icon Marilu Henner!

I'm 34, but I just remembered I'm 72.

Does this mean I am forgetting things?

I’m flustered by the people who address my by name while I have no clue as to who they are.

That happens to me too, r51, but I’m one of only a few black people in my community so everyone remembers me. I hate it.

Oh, Muffin, so glad your other muffin didn't burn.

@r47, "I've just turned 62, but look 26 at a certain angle.

Which angle?"

The one from outer space

R52, exactly! I moved back to the town I lived in when going to school. I will occasionally meet someone I went to HS with. They immediately know me but I have no fucking clue who they are. The last time it happened, I called the person by her sister's name. Her sister was a year behind us in HS!

Hi - I’m 56 - I always worry that I forget words or forget things. My mom is 85 - at 80 she was sharp articulate and bright like Nancy Pelosi. She has Alzheimer’s now. The scary thing is that she forgets “concepts.” The puts lettuce and onions in the dishwasher and shoved an apple pie under the couch. The other day I asked her to put something in the refrigerator - she hesitated - I realized she didn’t know which one was the refrigerator. ….. she can’t tell the computer screen from the tv screen and picks up the computer mouse to dial it like a phone. …. She doesn’t understand that on the phone if there is a f recording that she is not speaking to a person - I also have to explain that you don’t call information anymore. ….. She asks me how long I have “worked” here - I have “lived” here for 8 years. ….. She can’t tell 5 from 50 to 5000 etc. …….. She was getting older but not bad. She had a botched cataract surgery in July and it seems like she Judy lost every one of her marbles after that. It is SO sad…….. Anyway - until this I worried about forgetting words and keys etc. No - I think that is just stress.

Not Judy - just!

R56 You are right. There is a huge difference between being a little forgetful and Alzheimer’s disease. I’m sorry for you and your mother. I went through it with my mom too.

#58 Thank you! I’m sorry that you had to go through that, too!

I get so angry when people who are so obsessed with hating Biden or Trump that they lower themselves to insult them by using "Dementia" or "Alzheimer's." It's disgusting. Neither man has it. Anyone who know the dreadful disease firsthand could only wish to have our loved ones have Biden or Trump's supposed dementia/Alzheimer's.

It is a heartbreaking disease for every family going through it, so try not be an asshole trying to score cheap, political points by using it as despicable way to insult your political opponent.

knows*

I can’t remember names of actors. I will see them onscreen, remember their movies, their personal life, dialogue, appearances, sound of their voice, but no name. I used to be so quick at that. At least if given multiple choice, I can pick their name.

R60, I think it’s hilarious that Trump passed the dementia screening test and claimed that he "aced the IQ test."

#62- I’m that way, too! It was almost a party trick with me - I could name an actress - all three of her husbands - the other wives of there husbands. What movies they were all in - who directed it blah, blah, blah. A few months ago an old friend of mine introduced me into a new group of movie/theater snob friends - i clutched - I couldn’t remember names - I knew exactly what I was trying to say - I could see it in my mind - I just sat there like a dolt - nothing!!

Their not there!!

I can never remember names of movies, and sometimes forget if I have watched something before or not. I have sat through 10 minutes of a movie on Netflix before realizing that I have seen it already.

I’m 72 but people have always mistaken me for a high school student. It’s really really frustrating

Watching ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL, I keep referring to the lawyer as Lady Mary because I can’t keep track of character names anymore.

Be sure you are getting an average of about 8 hours of good sleep. Your body and mind heals and regenerates during deep sleep cycles.

I’ve been concerned the past year or two because I find it difficult to remember complex facts I have to teach. I’m a 57-year-old science teacher. My brain feels like there’s a limit anymore of how much information I can hold.

I forgot it was 2022.

I'm in my 40s and I can't recall anything