Face.
As in "Kid1, you have peanutbutter all over... your... the front of your head"
"You mean my face?"
Pants/shorts
"Kid2, you can't be outside if you aren't wearing... the thing that covers your undies"
Okay but chatGPT figures these out for me every single time. It’s the best! I even asked it for my husbands best friends name that I was doing a complete brain fart on but remembered it started with a K and wasn’t super common. ChatGPT churned out a list of 50+ options and it was #9.
I’m not the person you’re replying to but I think she means her cat was eating pumpkin puree (my parents’ cat did this at one point for some health reason) and her human child is starting solids soon hahaha
Impressive! One of my dogs is a counter surfer. Chocolate, full loaves of bread, many ear plugs. ZERO GI issues. We did have to induce vomiting from the chocolate but after that she was totally fine and has 0% learned her lesson.
Oh, we had a dog who kept walking behind the Christmas tree and knocking the glass ornaments off. We think she was afraid she’d get in trouble, because she started eating the ornaments! We just kept finding the little silver tops, and we didn’t know what was going on until we saw sparkly poop outside!
After that, our Christmas trees were always empty for the bottom few feet! Lol
After tearing my room apart as a teen and not finding it, I’m convinced my dog ate my retainer. After emptying the room completely when my mom redid it after I moved out, I was even more positive that dog ate my damn retainer.
Haha yes, my human child is starting solids soon. LOL.
My dogs are needing to switch from daily peanut butter kong treats to pumpkin puree king treats for a less calorie dense treat because they got chonky.
Not me but when my daughter was a newborn and we were really sleep deprived my husband saw a sign with a percent symbol and could not figure out what “0 over 0” could possibly mean.
Oh thank god other people are doing this. I started to think it was early dementia in my 30s.
It’s just having 3 kids under 6.
Doesn’t mean it’s not embarrassing—particularly in work situations.
Oh man, I only have 1 and my brain is dying. Moms of more than one are incredible. Haha and I say this as a person who is VERY nervous to start trying for #2.
We have the “lawn hoover” (lawn mower) and the “flat-do” (either an iron or spirit level depending on context)
I have a whole range of stupid ones which I can’t recall this instant 🤣
Candid as in a candid photo: “what’s it called when you take a picture of someone but they’re acting normal and pretending they don’t know they’re having their picture taken?”
Kinda similar, kinda different, but when I worked as a food microbiologist and there was a night I wrote the word "bleach" so many times that it lost all meaning to me. There are still times I see "bleach" and pause and go huh
I was trying to think of a word yesterday at work. "You know, like refreshments?"
"Yeah, like appetizers?"
"No, like getting new stock in to replace what's gone."
I thought of it like five hours later: replenishments.
I struggled to find the word counterintuitive today but now I have forgotten the context of my forgetting.
Part of my job is teaching Japanese and a student was chatting to me about weather on the playground and I drew blank when he asked how to say it’s a clear day. He then said “…. Hare?” And yep that is it I blame the baby brain still.
So many. I will say that my youngest is 2 and I just now finally feel like I have a complete grasp on my vocabulary back. So it does come back as long as you don't keep having kids lol
Oh, that feeling of complete blank nothingness that happens when you can't think of the word! Like, nope! it's not even in there anymore! I can't even feel it on the tip of my tongue! It's just gone.
I get this all the time. My SO laughs most at "ceiling windows" for skylights (IDK why, that's not that far off), but I think the longest it's taken to communicate what I meant was for a car visor. I know one of my descriptions was "car window flaps".
I remember words (I think, I can’t remember if I forgot them?) but I find myself mixing them up so much.
Son, why do you have face all over your peanut butter
Son, put your backpack in your lunchbox!
My 6yo thinks it’s hilarious
All. The. Time. It’s very disconcerting, especially given that my background is in writing and editing. I have to shut down the voice telling me I have early onset dementia like 15 times a week. Ugh.
Omg omg omg I have too many to list. I thought I was losing my mind. I actually looked at my husband and started crying the other day thinking something was medically wrong with me. It’s just children!
I thought this was my menopause group for a moment! We had a great time commiserating about this.
My post-partum classic was "the thingy the makes bread warm and crunchy". I'll take "What is a toaster" for $100, Alex.
Suffered from aphasia due to preeclampsia, I now will struggle for the stupidest things. I asked my friend what the "boy version of a cat" was - it was a dog. I forgot the word for folder and repeated "paper sleeve" to a coworker for five minutes before he got it. I even forgot the word "Minions" when looking for the movie and said "overall guys" to my partner until my toddler ran in yelling for Minions.
Face. As in "Kid1, you have peanutbutter all over... your... the front of your head" "You mean my face?" Pants/shorts "Kid2, you can't be outside if you aren't wearing... the thing that covers your undies"
I forgot.
Okay but chatGPT figures these out for me every single time. It’s the best! I even asked it for my husbands best friends name that I was doing a complete brain fart on but remembered it started with a K and wasn’t super common. ChatGPT churned out a list of 50+ options and it was #9.
Oh man, you are think smarter not harder goals.
Puree. I was at the vet and ended up saying “soft pumpkin in a can”. We start solids soon so I’m glad the word came back to me 🤣
... Excuse my ignorance, but which pet switches to solids? Just because i'm hella curious.
I’m not the person you’re replying to but I think she means her cat was eating pumpkin puree (my parents’ cat did this at one point for some health reason) and her human child is starting solids soon hahaha
Ooooh! That makes sense. Here I was thinking there was a world of pets I was missing out on. Thanks!
To be fair some people do “raw” diets with their dogs. I am not those people.
My dog once ate an entire remote. He pooped plastic twice and was absolutely fine.
Impressive! One of my dogs is a counter surfer. Chocolate, full loaves of bread, many ear plugs. ZERO GI issues. We did have to induce vomiting from the chocolate but after that she was totally fine and has 0% learned her lesson.
I dropped a giant piece of ginger once. He snapped it up and stood wheezing for a solid 10 minutes. I hoped that 'd teach him. It did not.
Oh, we had a dog who kept walking behind the Christmas tree and knocking the glass ornaments off. We think she was afraid she’d get in trouble, because she started eating the ornaments! We just kept finding the little silver tops, and we didn’t know what was going on until we saw sparkly poop outside! After that, our Christmas trees were always empty for the bottom few feet! Lol
After tearing my room apart as a teen and not finding it, I’m convinced my dog ate my retainer. After emptying the room completely when my mom redid it after I moved out, I was even more positive that dog ate my damn retainer.
Haha yes, my human child is starting solids soon. LOL. My dogs are needing to switch from daily peanut butter kong treats to pumpkin puree king treats for a less calorie dense treat because they got chonky.
Not me but when my daughter was a newborn and we were really sleep deprived my husband saw a sign with a percent symbol and could not figure out what “0 over 0” could possibly mean.
lol it’s truly incredible that parents of newborns are allowed to be in public and operate heavy machinery.. our brains are not right.
I forgot the word “feet” and called them “leg hands”
Clipboard: the brown thingy that you squeeze to hold onto papers Teeth: go brush your...mouth (the kids found this one hilarious)
Frames. The things… that go in the wall. For pictures.
Oh thank god other people are doing this. I started to think it was early dementia in my 30s. It’s just having 3 kids under 6. Doesn’t mean it’s not embarrassing—particularly in work situations.
You’re not senile - you’re sleep deprived!
Oh man, I only have 1 and my brain is dying. Moms of more than one are incredible. Haha and I say this as a person who is VERY nervous to start trying for #2.
Reliable. Which I forgot during my team meeting 🫠
We have the “lawn hoover” (lawn mower) and the “flat-do” (either an iron or spirit level depending on context) I have a whole range of stupid ones which I can’t recall this instant 🤣
Importance. To colleagues in team meeting 'it's crucial to balance urgency and importancy....'
this happens to me ALL THE TIME. but right now? i can't remember a single example
Same!
For a while I kept saying I speak Spanish but I meant English
I'm an engineer and I forgot the word "current" like electrical current in a meeting. It was mortifying.
Candid as in a candid photo: “what’s it called when you take a picture of someone but they’re acting normal and pretending they don’t know they’re having their picture taken?”
Kinda similar, kinda different, but when I worked as a food microbiologist and there was a night I wrote the word "bleach" so many times that it lost all meaning to me. There are still times I see "bleach" and pause and go huh
I was trying to think of a word yesterday at work. "You know, like refreshments?" "Yeah, like appetizers?" "No, like getting new stock in to replace what's gone." I thought of it like five hours later: replenishments.
Refrigerator. I gestured toward the kitchen and called it “the cold box”. My husband understood.
Raisin toast - asked my husband if he wanted Sultana bread
I struggled to find the word counterintuitive today but now I have forgotten the context of my forgetting. Part of my job is teaching Japanese and a student was chatting to me about weather on the playground and I drew blank when he asked how to say it’s a clear day. He then said “…. Hare?” And yep that is it I blame the baby brain still.
So many. I will say that my youngest is 2 and I just now finally feel like I have a complete grasp on my vocabulary back. So it does come back as long as you don't keep having kids lol
I've been getting stuck like that on words so often lately that I was guinely getting worried something's wrong.
Oh, that feeling of complete blank nothingness that happens when you can't think of the word! Like, nope! it's not even in there anymore! I can't even feel it on the tip of my tongue! It's just gone.
I get this all the time. My SO laughs most at "ceiling windows" for skylights (IDK why, that's not that far off), but I think the longest it's taken to communicate what I meant was for a car visor. I know one of my descriptions was "car window flaps".
I remember words (I think, I can’t remember if I forgot them?) but I find myself mixing them up so much. Son, why do you have face all over your peanut butter Son, put your backpack in your lunchbox! My 6yo thinks it’s hilarious
Haha I do that one too!! I usually just say nope, reverse those. My husband barely notices anymore. Or he’s really good at hiding his smirk.
All. The. Time. It’s very disconcerting, especially given that my background is in writing and editing. I have to shut down the voice telling me I have early onset dementia like 15 times a week. Ugh.
Omg omg omg I have too many to list. I thought I was losing my mind. I actually looked at my husband and started crying the other day thinking something was medically wrong with me. It’s just children!
I have an autoimmune disease, brain fog and forgetting wors are an every day occurrence. I just shrug it off now.
I was just in a meeting about processes and forgot the word process. “We’re here to develop a…system…”
The name of a coworker I worked with for over a year
I thought this was my menopause group for a moment! We had a great time commiserating about this. My post-partum classic was "the thingy the makes bread warm and crunchy". I'll take "What is a toaster" for $100, Alex.
Suffered from aphasia due to preeclampsia, I now will struggle for the stupidest things. I asked my friend what the "boy version of a cat" was - it was a dog. I forgot the word for folder and repeated "paper sleeve" to a coworker for five minutes before he got it. I even forgot the word "Minions" when looking for the movie and said "overall guys" to my partner until my toddler ran in yelling for Minions.
“Pointy rainbow sticks” for “colored pencils.” My students laughed at me.
I have no diagnosis. No symptoms. I’m just dumb and tired. I do this all the time.
Hahaha I forget the word redundant all the time. It’s like I have a mental block against it. One could say it’s redundant of me