I Forget Now...
On of the more random blogs, I feel!
I was just chatting to my friend, Kirsty, and talking about amnesia (we got onto the subject in a very round-about way).
And these questions came to mind...
"Hey, you know what I don't understand? People that have forgotten 'everything' - you know that they exist, right? Well, how on earth do they know how to talk (in order to communicate that they've forgotten everything)?! And something else I've literally just thought of, how about controlling their bladders? - I mean, surely if they forgot 'everything' - they must have reverted back to new born in understanding of the world around them?"
Please, does anyone have any answers to this?!
Cheers dudes and dudettes!!!
I was just chatting to my friend, Kirsty, and talking about amnesia (we got onto the subject in a very round-about way).
And these questions came to mind...
"Hey, you know what I don't understand? People that have forgotten 'everything' - you know that they exist, right? Well, how on earth do they know how to talk (in order to communicate that they've forgotten everything)?! And something else I've literally just thought of, how about controlling their bladders? - I mean, surely if they forgot 'everything' - they must have reverted back to new born in understanding of the world around them?"
Please, does anyone have any answers to this?!
Cheers dudes and dudettes!!!
posted by Mark Burgess at
10:43 PM
2 Comments:
I have one comment to make on this - generally, when people do lose all their memory, their inhibitions go too, and they do end up being unable to control themselves. I'm not talking from personal experience obviously! But, from seeing my nan's memory deteriorate it gets to the stage where she forgets how to eat, dress, go to the loo etc. One weird fact is that after forgetting all these things and becoming entirely dependent, she could still play the piano! Bazarre, eh!
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Claire, at July 14, 2006 2:06 PM
I have come to realise - not through personal experience, but through seeing my nan's memory deteriorate with Alzheimers, that with memory loss, all inhibitions and natural functions also disappear. In the later stages of her illness, my nan could not feed herself, swallow, walk, go to the loo, clothe herself etc. What is bazarre though, and something I can't get my head round, is that she could still play a piece on the piano note-perfect! Weird eh!
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Claire, at July 14, 2006 2:12 PM
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