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Old Feb 22, 2014, 09:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Yearning0723 View Post
No, I don't have memory problems - at least, no more so than the average person. But I've done a lot of reading about the way memory actually works and have come to understand that most of the things we think happened in our pasts are actually somewhat inaccurate, whether we forget who we were with when a specific thing happened or how old we were when it happened or details about the event, and sometimes our brains try to fill in the blanks to come up with a cohesive narrative. I feel like my brain does this sometimes.
Then sounds like you are trying to intellectually rationalize a painful moment in your life. You need not dismiss your memory and feeling, just because mom cried, kwim?

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