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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Having this “backstory” (for lack of a better term), is what drives me forward, without those memories, like if I get a concussion and forgot everything, I wouldn’t really be… well… “me” anymore

    Emotional memories is how we develop a sense of self. So if you are really attached to who you are then it will be terryfing to loose who you are.

    But we can do really wacky stuff with our memories. We can delude ourselfs into makeing new false memories or misremembering them.

    Also you constantly get new memories and change who you are, so you aren’t the same person as you were years ago.

    I have grown up without that sense of self and I had to sculpt one from the ground up. So I am not really terrified of loosing the sens of self as I can make one once again. It will be different but it will still be ME.