Entries tagged with memory

I first encountered the term brain fog in the mid 1990s on a fibromyalgia listserv. I see it popping up all over mainstream media in re: Long COVID.

Vocabulary derail:

I’m a picky fussbudget so I describe my current cognitive issues as "trouble making new memories" as well as "difficulty word-finding."

massive frustration derail:

can't nail down the source of these impairments: candidates include ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, PTSD, depression, anxiety as well as the medications I take for all those things.

( Spilling the Tea )

It took me four months to realize that I needed to use a teapot I'd already bought to make tea.

That is brain fog.

How do you feel about the term brain fog? Does it build a bridge from our disabled experience to non-disabled people? Does it minimize the impact? Feel free to rant.

Weight lifts, breaths, hide-and-go-seek, hand washing: I have many opportunities to count during the day. When I count with digits, I get lost because I forget whether I’m counting down or counting up.

While exercising in the pool the word "chlorinate" came to mind, and I noticed that all ten letters were unique. I realized I could count to ten by spelling out the word. I don’t get lost, because words have a fixed direction. If I forget what the next letter is, I can picture the complete word to remind me.

Thanks to the internet, there are lists of words grouped by length and by letter frequency repetition. There are hundreds of ten-letter words at that link, but many are technical terms I’ve never seen before and wouldn’t remember.

Hence: 75 unique ten-letter counting words, clumped in intuitive bunches.

( count off! )

Spilling the Tea re “Brain fog”

Memory Hack: Keeping Count with Words