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Comment by xupybd

3 days ago

>Imagine dialing a phone number by having to look up each digit one at a time in the phone book

This was me for the first 38 years of my life. I got a degree and worked as a software developer with memory that bad.

How did you manage it?

  • I didn't know any better. I just looked things up. Including variables all the time. intellisense was a god send.

    Then I sorted my sleep apnea and Celiac and my memory started working. It's like life on easy mode. I'm not smarter but having that mental scratch pad of memory is awesome. Even little things like getting an auth code and not having to read out each number one by one.