I’m really noticing my brain is so much slower in my 30s. I’m forgetting things and my brain just seems to work much more slowly than it did. A stupid example but say yesterday a friend asked where a piece of material on the floor was from (the tie had come off my apron) and it took me several seconds to say apron, I was thinking “oh it’s off that thing you wear when cooking, what’s that called? Erm what do you call that? …. An apron!” I’m sure in the past I would have just said apron straight away. Or I’ll be listening to the radio and recognise the presenter and it’ll take me 5-10 minutes into the programme to remember their name. And for a regular presenter who I hear often, not someone obscure. I find myself often noticing how I can’t remember something I would have remembered instantly previously or I sometimes can’t think of what the word is for something.
Is this normal? I can’t tell if this is completely normal as you age or something to be worried about. I don’t have children so I’m not sleep-deprived!