Hi Stopdog,

Yes, i wish memory was 100% reliable. In my case, i have a bad memory! Am always misplacing keys, forgetting things. As far back as i remember, i have always been kind of a space cadet. It has only been latley that i have begun to figure out that i think i have trouble with sensory overload. I think that i cannot tolerate too much happening at one time -- i can't process it. It's almost like my mind starts shutting down if there's too much going on. Visually, i get tunnel vision. If i focus on something, i don't see what's in the rest of the visual field. Also, when i am inside my head thinking, i do not notice what is physically around me. When i drive in the car, it's hard for me to drive and try to visit with the passengers at the same time. So what looks like having a bad memory or being forgetful might be a problem with not being able to handle "input," I guess you'd call it. That might be why i do not remember all the details of my abuse too. It was probably "too much" to process or something.