Running in the family...

I came home from school one lunchtime to find my mum, who has two honours degrees and a post-grad, in floods of tears because she couldn't remember how to spell "cheese" on her shopping list.

I seem to have inherited a different kind of word blindness - I often forget the most simple of words and am reduced to describing them - that shiny thing in the wall that you see out of (window), the wee hairy noisy thing (my cat), the hot box you make your dinner in (the oven). I also instantly forget anyone's name a millisecond after we're introduced, but I think that happens to most people, doesn't it?
(Burnside79, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 22:20, 6 replies)

losing it
No.I'm afraid you are on your own.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 1:29, closed)

My Mum once wrote 'Goyvies' on her shopping list
She meant 'yoghurts'.

Well, she is Spanish...
(SonoraAeroClub "OH SWEET HELEN OF BALLS!", Fri 22 Jul 2011, 2:29, closed)

I get that as well sometimes
Increasingly as I get older.

Which makes me feel a bit more guilty about taking the piss out of my dad for it when he did it. Though he was more annoying in that when he'd forgotten a word he just stopped talking. So you'd end up with sentences that just
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 14:00, closed)

Me too
The reason I think I do that is I get no decent sleep due to sleep apnea.
I'm getting is seen to so ask me in a few months if it helped
(waxdart hello., Fri 22 Jul 2011, 14:11, closed)

Glad I'm not the only one! I also used to slag my dad off for doing it, must be karma that I do it now. Hope the sleep clinic helps, I used to be a terrible insomniac as a child and I know how much it can mess with your mind.
(Burnside79, Sat 23 Jul 2011, 19:14, closed)

yeah
I do that too. Way too often.

I can't help thinking of the Simpsons episode when Homer enhances his vocabulary but then loses it all and refers to a spoon as "that thing you use to dig food". Though I try more often to take the Porky Pig approach and substitute a synonym, which leads to weird responses from people who aren't used to it because I generally use a less common/obscure word to replace something really really simple.
(xanthine, Wed 27 Jul 2011, 12:00, closed)