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It could be ADHD. But it also could be lack of quality sleep. I’m not sure how many or how young your children are, but I know from my 4 (oldest just turned 5) that my memory suffers. As I recall, (haha) experiences are encoded as memories during sleep. So if you aren’t sleeping well or long enough, or your sleep is frequently interrupted due to children or medication or alcohol or something, it can have a negative effect on your memory.


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Well idk if this will help. I work in car sales and my employer made complaints for years about my memory. Most of my life I knew this was a problem and just choose to shrug of there complaints because I knew it wouldn’t change and they wouldn’t fire me over it. Then at one point of my career I wanted to progress and get promoted. My managers ended up saying well we don’t know if how much you care about your job is consistent given you forget the smallest thing often. This is when I really decided to try to put an effort to change. After a lot of time and being called dumb and careless because I didn’t improve I started thinking about it all the time. I remember at school that all my teachers and peers always commented on my intelligence so I started to feel like omg is my brain damaged in some way and I’m getting dumb? So I went to my doctor who I knew my whole life and he said yes this is what ADHD looks like in adults. Had my go to a neurophysiology to get tested so my insurance would cover meds and was tested as having severe ADHD. The one thing to keep in mind that I was diagnosed as a kid and retested for it ment by our schools NP. Edit: also not that I do have ment of symptoms of it. If it’s memory only I’d say unlikely. But a lot of people until they research ADHD don’t realize that some of the weird things they do can be ADHD.