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Does anyone else find they have a hard time forgetting stupid, random things they'd like to forget?

For example: song someone played on the radio during my poorly-supervised eighth-grade art class which was... kinda anti-Semitic. Definitely anti-Semitic by modern standards. Do I remember any of the art techniques? No. I still remember a few lines of that stupid song. (Also a few lines from the "piece of shit car" song, heard on the radio during the same poorly-supervised art class, but I don't mind that one.)

For another example, this horrible, horrible joke someone insisted on sharing in the undergraduate dining hall. It was very long, it was not funny to anyone listening, and it was a rape joke. I don't remember it word-for-word, but I could easily reproduce the joke. The Invertible Matrix Theorem, no, but the "joke".

I guess it makes sense I'd be more likely to remember things which made me uncomfortable, even really stupid things, but it's extremely annoying.

I tend to remember things that were incredibly embarassing/uncomfortable for me and I'm always sure that everyone still remembers those situations as vividly as me - even though at the time no-one really noticed in the first place and probably forgot about it already seconds after.

I also can't forget bits and pieces of old childhood audio books but it drives me mad not knowing which audio book it was on or, even worse, knowing exactly where it comes from but never being able to listen to it again (because it was on audio cassettes and they... just don't exist anymore).

I've heard it theorized--don't know how well supported it is--that some people have a tendency to form strong, lasting memories mainly of positive things and others mostly remember negative things. It's a theory I can buy because the second category seems to fit me horribly well. :/

I tend to remember things that were incredibly embarassing/uncomfortable for me and I'm always sure that everyone still remembers those situations as vividly as me - even though at the time no-one really noticed in the first place and probably forgot about it already seconds after.

I do the same thing as well. Even for stuff that, looked at objectively, was incredibly minute, and that there's no way anyone else remembers, even for stuff from the middle of childhood, I still remember very vividly.

I have a whole lengthy list, going to back when I was a very small child, that tends to pop up randomly and then I can't stop thinking about it. Things like my mom asking me to go grab a candy bar for my dad when we were at the store when I was about three, and I went and came back and thought I saw her so I went up and started talking to her, then realized it wasn't her and ran away horrified.

Or similarly, the time at about age five when I went up behind someone who I thought was my dad at a swimming pool, and started splashing him, and he turned around and was some strange guy with his own daughter in his arms.

So many things like that. Sucks being faceblind.

I have a similar story, only mine was in a McDonald's playplace when I was about four. I saw a lady with a purse that looked like my mom's leaving, so I thought my mom was leaving without me and went and grabbed the strap of her purse and almost followed her out the door before I looked up and realized my mom didn't have white hair. She didn't even seem to notice some random kid clinging to her bag, so I was able to let go and go back to playing before anyone saw, but for some reason I was still deeply mortified to have made such a mistake.

When I was little I'd quote lines from movies I liked, and a lot of them were really suggestive but I didn't know that, I just thought they were funny.

I remember one time I threw one of those lines into my regular speech in front of my parents, who I'd assumed hadn't seen the movie (I'd seen it at a friends' house), and when they asked "where you got that from," I acted like I didn't know what they were talking about, as if what I'd said were, naturally, something I'd come up with myself.

At first, that time stayed in my mind because I couldn't understand why they didn't believe me. They had never seen the movie, so they had no proof I hadn't made that line up! Now I remember it because I know the real meaning of what I said and why my parents knew I couldn't have made it up at that age. And they know I lied to them about it just so I could pretend I was witty. It's so embarrassing I hope to whatever god there may be that my parents don't remember. (I'm not saying what the movie or quote was because even being that specific is too embarrassing.)

I can't even start to attempt making a casual list. It's just too huge.

My memory is absolutely nasty. It has HUGE blocks in things I really ought to remember... but recalls vividly and insistently annoying things, stupid things, or (even more so) things that cause me a great deal of guilt.

My friend made me listen to a certain graphic loli-ish song to the tune of Kyari Pamyu Pamyu's "Ponponpon." (If you've heard it, you know what I mean. If you haven't heard it, you're lucky.) I am pretty sure it will play in my nightmares for the rest of my life.

Also I'll never be able to forget every embarrassing thing I've ever done.

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