Being Forgetful

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Does Aspergers make you forget?

Not sure about Asperger's making me forget, but my seizures definitely wipe my memory.

All I can say is that I have a notoriously bad memory.

I have a great long-term memory, but I am very forgetful. My issue is that I can't focus on two things at once, so if (recent example) my electric toothbrush runs out of power when I brush my teeth, there is absolutely no chance that I will remember this by the time I've had my shower.

My long term memory is excellent, I can clearly remember incidents from before I was two years old, but but on a day to day basis I'm very forgetful. I constantly need to make notes of things and make shopping lists, otherwise I'd get to the shops and forget what it was that I went there to buy.

I have a Semi-eidetic memory, yet I can't remember what I had for lunch. Except for that fact, that I eat the same thing for lunch everyday. Though if I didn't for some reason I'd have problems remembering the next day, or after a few hours.

I'm somewhat forgetful. I can never remember things that I say in conversations and I often end up saying the same thing multiple times because I can't remember who I said it to (like I'll tell my one friend that I had a bad day, and then tell her again two hours later because I thought the person I told the first time was my other friend). I'm good at remembering little details about people and I have a good memory for things like facts.

I read that Cerebral Palsy or Aspergers make you forget, you keep your long-term memories, but not your short-term memories. I remember alot about my childhood, I remember my first house so good, I remember almost every detail like I was living there again. It wasn't really my first house (I was a baby when I moved from there. I lived on Elm street)

Can you remind me what the question was?

Executive Dysfunctions such as limited multitasking and planning abilties common for people on the spectrum can make people forgetful.

Not forgetful in the traditional sense, I find we have trouble retrieving information both consciously and subconsciously. We often go "oh crap" when we are reminded instead of completely forgetting everything.

I wish I could choose what to remember and what to forget. My girfriend says my memory is bizzare as it remembers useless tv trivia from decades ago but easily forgets a small list of items when going shopping.

Yes, long term memory, at least on some stuff, is good, but my short term memory keeps getting lost. I also have the condition known as refrigerator light amnesia. By the time I open any door, drawer, cupboard, or go to another room, I often forget what I was doing that for. Or in other words, by the time the light in the fridge comes on, the one in my mind has gone out. HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! When the light in my current fridge went out years ago, I left it that way. One has to get revenge somehow. Unfortunately, it didn't help improve my short term memory.

I'm so forgetful it's been practically the defining quality of my personality, all my life. Everything you guys describe, short term memory, names, faces, dates. I've managed to forget to go to a dinner I was invited to. I have never in my life remembered a birthday, including my own. I told everyone I had turned 40 and it took my sister to tell me I am NOT the same age as her
I went back after years to the town where I went to school, and was recognised and dragged along to a party where everyone seemed to know me, and I offended practically every person there by muddling them with one another, even a boy i went out with apparently! I think they thought I was taking the p*** but I honestly wasn't, I was mortified. I hate hurting people's feelings, so this is awful for me. I'm fine going to a party once, but I'll avoid socialising with the same lot again for the simple reason I'm meant to remember them, and I'll for sure do or say something wrong.
HOWEVER those few i really care for, I do not forget so easily..

Weird that I can remember numbers, even really long ones. and piano pieces. And languages. Synesthesia helps.

I hope I always have my long term memories, I don't want to forget my mom.