What’s the difference between forgetful and short term memory loss? Aren’t they the same thing, when the bottom line is that you don’t remember?
Dore gave me three words: trousers, church, green. I was to remember them when he tests me for my short term memory. Hours later I am still thinking of these words but he has already gone to bed. He never asks me for them.
So much for the test, and maybe we’ll be all right. Experts suggest mental exercises. The brain needs stretching too, turning driveways into freeways.
All afternoon I was trying to memorize two lines of a poem. I’m still unsuccessful.
To get to know a friend is to try finding things in common. Pick a topic–hobby, age, birth signs, politics–between two people there has got to be something you can talk about. My friend Andy and I are excited over our dyslexia. It may be too broad a term to describe the sense of loss in our childhood, but we definitely were not wired optimally and timely. I remember eating an interminable lunch at my desk, while the rest of the class lined up to go somewhere. But more tragically was the lack of comprehension on all subjects (except music) no matter how hard I tried.