[she flips through her notebook and settles on a page.]
What I have isn't amnesia. Or at least, it doesn't fit a profile of either know amnesiac types. There's anterograde amnesia. This is a type where a person can't form new memories, and is more common. There's also retrograde amnesia. This is where a person can form new memories, but can't remember old memories, which is more popular in fiction but less so in reality. My condition includes the definition of both types.
But, the anomaly is that amnesia has an external cause. Trauma from a concussion or spinal injury. Lack of oxygen to the brain. Drug use. Dementia. A stroke. Brain tumor. I have no history of any of this. So, I can't really be said to have 'amnesia'.
Since I"m outside the scope of traditional medical procedures, no doctor or specialist wants to touch me. Especially when I am already functioning in society like a normal person instead of being comatose or otherwise a burden. And it'd be unethical to dig around in my brain with a scalpel for research, so there'd be no way to dissect me for science until I die. Only the Ultimate Neurologist has the ability, skill, and need for research material with specialized tools, has the willingness to examine me. Of course, he'd have to understand my condition before he could cure me, which he doesn't, entirely.
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Date: 2023-08-21 08:41 am (UTC)[she flips through her notebook and settles on a page.]
What I have isn't amnesia. Or at least, it doesn't fit a profile of either know amnesiac types. There's anterograde amnesia. This is a type where a person can't form new memories, and is more common. There's also retrograde amnesia. This is where a person can form new memories, but can't remember old memories, which is more popular in fiction but less so in reality. My condition includes the definition of both types.
But, the anomaly is that amnesia has an external cause. Trauma from a concussion or spinal injury. Lack of oxygen to the brain. Drug use. Dementia. A stroke. Brain tumor. I have no history of any of this. So, I can't really be said to have 'amnesia'.
Since I"m outside the scope of traditional medical procedures, no doctor or specialist wants to touch me. Especially when I am already functioning in society like a normal person instead of being comatose or otherwise a burden. And it'd be unethical to dig around in my brain with a scalpel for research, so there'd be no way to dissect me for science until I die. Only the Ultimate Neurologist has the ability, skill, and need for research material with specialized tools, has the willingness to examine me. Of course, he'd have to understand my condition before he could cure me, which he doesn't, entirely.
...The rest I forgot.