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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][...]Keyser said she doesn’t remember many small gatherings like the one Ford described, nor does she remember hanging out much with Georgetown Prep students, which Kavanaugh was. She maintains that she didn’t even know who Kavanaugh was back then, after reviewing pictures and maps.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/17/key-witness-brett-kavanaugh-saga-comes-down-his-side/?noredirect=on[/quote]
If you had asked me six months ago if I socialized a lot during high school, I would have said no, my parents were strict and I didn’t really go out much. Then my mother gave me a box of memorabilia from high school including several journals. Guess what?! I went out to small get togethers a lot, like two school nights and two weekend days, and when I read the journal, I didn’t remember several of the people I wrote about interactions with at these parties. High school was just twenty years ago for me, but I obviously didn’t need those inconsequential memories, so my brain pruned them.

Memory is a funny thing. Trauma fixes memories for the people who suffer them; Blasey Ford remembering the night someone attempted to rape her and her friend not remembering is actually a perfect illustration of this.

Sorry if my common sense disrupts your safe space.[/quote]

Um, ok.  Thanks for your anecdote?
-DP[/quote]
Hey, you’re welcome! I know it’s nice to have examples that illustrate the nature of memory and I was happy to provide a relevant example. Lots of people, (like 7:17, for example!) are convinced that memory is perfect and they take any challenge to their memory as an attack on their intelligence. It’s not. It’s memory, a great system full of bugs and evolutionary adaptations.

Strangely they 100% believe Leland’s lack of recollection and disbelieve Christine’s recollection entirely. It’s curious, that.[/quote]

Actually, 7:17 is correct.  If what Ford claims is true, I would also have remembered being the only girl left at a small gathering, and wondering where my best friend went, why she ditched me, and how on earth she got home.  I would remember worrying about her and frantically calling her, either from the house party or when I got home.  I would remember going home without her.

However, Keyser remembers none of that.  Nothing.  Pretty curious, that.   :roll: [/quote]

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