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yeah my autobiographical memory is like this, but I still remember bugs in software I fixed 20 years ago. I did feel bad about not remembering these things as I thought it was me not paying enough attention to my life, but recently realised that's not really true - was helpful to read that it's a recognised thing (and particularly affects autobiographical memory).

A bit sad, but as you say, I think I live in the moment and I'm generally quite happy. I don't remember many of those cringey and painful things (whereas my partner has well above-average autobiographical memory and is always replacing those cringey moments in her head). I still take photos and enjoy looking at them, to see all the fun stuff I've done :)