TheIronSheik
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Has me a little worried.
I've often mentioned on this board about how I used to have a photographic memory. But as I've gotten older, it's been fading. I know when you get older, this happens, but sometimes I feel like it might be going faster than it should be.
This morning, I woke up and my iPhone asked me to enter my code for my phone. I usually do the fingerprint, but every so often after a long time it asks you to do your code again. I entered the PIN and it said it was incorrect. Thinking I fat-fingered it, I re-entered it and incorrect again. Thing is, it's been the same code since my first iPhone and is a variation of dates, so I knew I was entering it correctly. I figured something must have gone wrong and looked up how to get around the passcode.
A webpage told me to go into another phone and log into my iCloud. I got on my wife's phone and it asked me for my Apple ID password. Now, this password is the same I use for work with a slight variation, but it has been my go to password since 1997. It starts with the same 5 characters but I change the last 5 for everything. But as I went to enter it in, I realized I couldn't think of the first 5 digits. The same digits I've been typing in, on average, probably 10 times a day for the past 24 years. I could remember 3 of the 5 but was drawing a complete blank on the rest. No matter how hard I tried, nothing would come to me. Now, it could have had something to do with just waking up or even being frazzled over not being able to get into my phone. It was making me so angry.
After about 10 minutes of trying to remember, it finally came back to me. Unfortunately, I still couldn't get into my phone. So I eventually gave up and got in the shower. As I started getting dressed, all of a sudden I realized I was entering the phone's passcode in in the wrong order. I had the numbers right, just the wrong order. But before I could have sworn I was entering it correctly.
This whole chain of events has really rattled me this morning. Is this just the normal things someone 45 and older can expect? Or is this something more that I should go talk to a doctor about? Inquiring (fading) minds want to know!
I've often mentioned on this board about how I used to have a photographic memory. But as I've gotten older, it's been fading. I know when you get older, this happens, but sometimes I feel like it might be going faster than it should be.
This morning, I woke up and my iPhone asked me to enter my code for my phone. I usually do the fingerprint, but every so often after a long time it asks you to do your code again. I entered the PIN and it said it was incorrect. Thinking I fat-fingered it, I re-entered it and incorrect again. Thing is, it's been the same code since my first iPhone and is a variation of dates, so I knew I was entering it correctly. I figured something must have gone wrong and looked up how to get around the passcode.
A webpage told me to go into another phone and log into my iCloud. I got on my wife's phone and it asked me for my Apple ID password. Now, this password is the same I use for work with a slight variation, but it has been my go to password since 1997. It starts with the same 5 characters but I change the last 5 for everything. But as I went to enter it in, I realized I couldn't think of the first 5 digits. The same digits I've been typing in, on average, probably 10 times a day for the past 24 years. I could remember 3 of the 5 but was drawing a complete blank on the rest. No matter how hard I tried, nothing would come to me. Now, it could have had something to do with just waking up or even being frazzled over not being able to get into my phone. It was making me so angry.
After about 10 minutes of trying to remember, it finally came back to me. Unfortunately, I still couldn't get into my phone. So I eventually gave up and got in the shower. As I started getting dressed, all of a sudden I realized I was entering the phone's passcode in in the wrong order. I had the numbers right, just the wrong order. But before I could have sworn I was entering it correctly.
This whole chain of events has really rattled me this morning. Is this just the normal things someone 45 and older can expect? Or is this something more that I should go talk to a doctor about? Inquiring (fading) minds want to know!
