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I have said repeatedly that COVID rewired my brain. I was infected with the OG strain the January of '20 and then subsequently twice more about 6 months to a year apart despite being vaxxed. I never mentally felt quite right after, and my memory has definitely taken a dive. My wife even comments that my personality changed somewhat.
After COVID, I forget common words in the middle of speaking now which has been fucking fantastic in work environments.
“Hey can you hand me that…um…uh….that piece of paper for coffee grounds?”
“A filter?”
“Yeah that”
This is why I even noticed it in the first place. Being in sales is fun having this problem. It has gotten better the last couple of years but I'm still not as sharp as I was prior. I have also noticed that it's harder for me to form new memories.
I have exactly the same problem. I also struggle to concentrate now. Pre COVID I could stay focused on the work infront of me for hours. Now I struggle to focus for more than 30min at a time if I'm lucky.
I also got it back in early 2020 when doctors still said, "it can't be covid, you haven't been to china". Now I have the same thing happen as you describe, but I legit don't know if it's covid or just getting older. I remember my dad always used to do the same thing when I was a kid, calling things by approximately, but not quite exactly the right term. We always thought it was funny, how his memory could be so close yet so far like that. Now it happens to me all the time. Names of restaurants, actors, random words.
One up side of LLMs is they're actually pretty decent at figuring out the word I'm thinking of from the description I can manage. The other day I was trying to remember the word "ambitious", and searched Google for "word that starts with A that means biting off more than you can chew". The normal results didn't have it, so I tried AI assist and it got it immediately. Also, in trying to recall this story, I forgot the word again and had to do the exact same exercise :/
I kinda hope it's not long term covid and just normal getting older shit...