Thanks guys (or gals, as the case may be). I hate when I cannot come up with adequate words to describe how I am feeling. But somehow you get me anyway.

I have terrible memory problems. I had an extremely abusive and traumatic childhood & I quite honestly cannot remember more than a handful of things about my life before I turned 18; and it seems most of those memories are only of the traumatic events. Its really sad. I have vague ideas of facts from my life back then, like I know I made good grades, but to say, gosh Mr. So and So teacher was so great, is not possible because I cannot honestly remember single instances of most anything. Truthfully I am really bad about that in my adult life too. If I don't do something daily, I won't remember it. My son is constantly reminding me of things I've said and done and I cannot remember them. For a long time I would get mad at him, like he was just messing with me (he's only 8, so he wasn't messing with me), and then I finally realized I am actually not remembering things. I'm on 33 years old. Ah, another thing to add to the list of freakishness.