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[quote=Anonymous]I’m a 53 year old menopausal attorney who used to keep the critical facts of 150+ criminal cases in a filing box in my brain, and I was very, very good at recalling pertinent facts that other attorneys on the cases couldn’t.

Then I went through menopause, as well as suffering for half a decade with an undiagnosed chronic vitamin deficiency that caused serious neurological deficits. I’m mostly recovered, but my brain doesn’t work the same as it used to.

I recently started working with kids in a before and after school program and I’m hopeless at remembering all their names - 30-40 kids in a room running around playing, screaming, crying, fighting. Their faces are becoming familiar and I know the names of a few of them, but after a week of interacting with them daily, I couldn’t tell you the names of most of them - only the ones who are the worst behaved who the other staff are constantly yelling at to stop fighting stop doing that stop breaking that rule stop running on the tables etc.

I suspect OP is relatively young and hasn’t yet met the joyful reality of the changing brain, which has much more wisdom and compassion than his/hers, but is much worse at little details like names.[/quote]

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