I'm exactly the same way, and as a person in his mid-twenties, it's terrible. I sometimes feel like I have incredibly-early-onset Alzheimer's or something when

I'm exactly the same way, and as a person in his mid-twenties, it's terrible. I sometimes feel like I have incredibly-early-onset Alzheimer's or something when I can't remember the term for something interesting I read about a few months ago, and apparently it's pretty bizarre that I remember almost nothing from my childhood before my mid-teens. Not to mention, it's very difficult to convince people you're not an antisocial jerk when you forget the names of people who have already told you their name more than once. I've always wondered if this memory issue is at least partially genetic, though, because my two brothers and my father all have the same issue remembering names and other trivial facts. We all will also forget things that our wives have told us, not because we weren't paying attention at the time, but because our subconscious minds just decided that particular piece of information wasn't worth storing. I really wish I could just run CCleaner on my brain or something...