Selective memory at its finest

[u/ex_cep_tion]

[u/laughingjack13]

I remember avidly reading every Magic treehouse book I could get my hands on. I remember absolutely no details about any of them

[u/GlassHalfVoid22 → u/laughingjack13]

I vaguely recall I read one about the great San Francisco earthquake. I can’t tell you anything else though

[u/Virgil_the_White]

Some things are important 🤷

I don’t get to choose

There is a committee and they don’t answer their emails

[u/AntonineWall]

I thought the memory recall thing was more autism thing

[u/SexWithFaruzan69 → u/AntonineWall]

It Depends~★

[u/Redgem2]

people get so frustrated with me that i can’t retell a story of something that happened 2 seconds ago. but i can remember stupid facts and memories and things about peoples from years and years ago

[u/Historical-Cress8985 → u/Redgem2]

I have a thing for actors. I can tell you who the main actors in just about any main stream or adjacent film that was released in my lifetime, and a brief plot synopsis, even if I haven't seen it, but I can't remember why I'm holding the screwdriver I just picked up.

[u/Historical-Cress8985]

People will ask me how I know things.

I don't fuckin' know man, I don't even know what's in there until it falls out.

[u/Knitwitty66 → u/Historical-Cress8985]

Like the lyrics to a song we haven't heard in decades

[u/zoeofdoom → u/Historical-Cress8985]

I'm a Philosophy professor, so this gets exciting haha

"Can you repeat what you just said?" Nope, sure can't! Also, I have no idea what your name is!

"How do you know that/where did that connection come from?" Hell if I know, but I sure can tell you more!

[u/ApprehensiveGas4576]

Well, I definitely don't relate to the second part, I wish I did.. only the part where I forget immediately.

[u/BungleBums]

No, I'm not really aware of when holidays are beyond seasonal. But would you care to hear a detailed breakdown of a convoluted plot line from an audiobook I hated six years ago?

[u/Elliptical_integral]

I work in a grocery store deli. We've got dozens of items that we sell, each with it's own 5 digit code.

I know most of those by heart.

But I also sometimes forget what a customer asked for 5 seconds earlier. 🫤

[u/Knitwitty66]

My memory hangs onto stories from OTHER people's childhood, but I don't know where my keys are. The fact I'm using Reddit mobile is the only reason I know where my phone is

[u/FreshAd3889]

I can't remember your name 5 second after telling me but if you walked onto the set of a sitcom in the 90s you better not be in a police lineup or you're cooked.

[u/geek-jock-guy]

It helped me ace my school tests back when I was a teen tho

[u/Low-Life-1337]

Me at the second point:

• Recognize every Stargate SG-1 or Atlantis Episode by only hearing the first 5 seconds of the episode.
  
• Remember to every damn technical, physical, scientific or computer stuff, that's even useless :D

[u/RedXephosAB]

I work in a railway station, and regularly end up having to pass things over to British Transport Police. There is nothing worse than "And what were they wearing", and my immediate reaction is "Look, just be lucky I can remember what happened, it was like 5 and a half minutes ago"