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Old Nov 18, 2020, 10:48 AM
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Originally Posted by ElectricManatee View Post
I have a very good memory, except when I get triggered by something (and sometimes it's surprisingly subtle and I don't realize I'm triggered at the time). In that state, my brain kind of half-powers down and stops recording things accurately or at all. Once I began to realize that this was happening, I started to be careful to question the assumptions I was making about what somebody said or what I thought they said. It's freaking exhausting to do that, though, and I would prefer that my brain just worked properly all the time.
Oddly, this is also a near-perfect description of the exhaustion of living with a hearing impairment.
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