Stories

Fireflies

"Dissociative amnesia is one of a group of conditions called dissociative disorders. Dissociative disorders are mental illnesses that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, consciousness, awareness, identity, and/or perception. When one or more of these functions is disrupted, symptoms can result. These symptoms can interfere with a person's general functioning, including social and work activities, and relationships."

"Dissociative amnesia occurs when a person blocks out certain information, usually associated with a stressful or traumatic event, leaving him or her unable to remember important personal information. With this disorder, the degree of memory loss goes beyond normal forgetfulness and includes gaps in memory for long periods of time or of memories involving the traumatic event."

For me, it feels more like losing time.

If I'd spent my life waking up with strange people in strange places I might have known I had dissociative amnesia much sooner.

As it is, I lived with severe dissociative amnesia for almost fifteen years before anyone - friends, family, and most notably I myself - spotted anything out of the ordinary.

School was though, I remember math being the hardest.

I remembered random bits and pieces of different things but could never put a whole story together.

That was, until he came around.

And I know what you're thinking; a typical girl meets boy story.

But it's more than just a story.

I remembered things.