To not be able to remember the alphabet?

[lincolnshirelassy]

Was putting my contacts in order on database at work this morning. Absolutely could not remember what letter came after P. Was convinced it was U for some time. I actually had to look it up and check!!!

So, has anyone else done anything quite as bonkers as this? Children are 15, 12 and 8 so pregnancy fog/baby brain can no longer be used as an excuse. Have I got early onset dementia?

A friend cannot tell her left from her right. At all.

Sometimes we give her the job of directing us somewhere, it gives us a real sense of adventure.

I like Elmo's alphabet song - abcdefghijklmnopqurstuvwxyz. Pronunciation: abkerdeffgee juckle men op kwi stuve wicks is

I have to think of the alphabet, left and right, east and West, times tables. Also which tap on my bath is hot and cold, which light switche work the hall and landing and which is my front door key and which is mums!

Same here, I'm incapable of reciting the alphabet without it breaking into the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star...

I never realised it was sung to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle. I've just sat here singing them both.

I don't know my alphabet without going through the whole thing, nor my left and right, nor my tunes tables.. I just don't remember stuff by rote.

My degree is in maths and the number of times people question how I got it without knowing my tables is at least 12x12! Does my noggin!

I called the fire station "the fire engine shop" after having dd... I just couldn't remember its real name!!

I have forgotten my age on more than one occasion. Once was my birthday and I spent the first 10 mins thinking I was a year younger than I actually was.

Another was when a consultant asked how old I was and I had to work it out from my birthyear.

I can't do the alphabet without the song. Also don't know left & right.

An old girfriend of mine solved the left/rigt thing by calling it watch or bangle. Made the ususally stressful thing of directions quite a good laugh (I was a lot younger)

I do directions by "my way" and "your way" in the car.
Don't need to do the whole alphabet, but cant just say what letter comes next, usually need about 1/3 of it I too have just been singing twinkle twinkle and ABC, I don't think they are quite the same round lmnop and onwards??? Do I need to add music to my can't do list? tables are also dubious. Which is becoming problematic now I need to spot test the kids

I never realised it was the tune of Twinkle Twinkle either! Been singing both all my life!!

alphabet twinkle , very similar, but different rythmns. Not the same, afaic.

If you're really worried about dementia, can you say the months of the year backwards?

That's the test they gave me in hospital. Everyone my age got it, not just me. Some new initiative or other.

o puh kwu ruh suh tuh uh

Oooh, please don't; 'q' is a separate letter from 'u'; 'q' spells a /k/ sound. 'u' is a vowel - you've managed to miss the vowel sound, /u/, out altogether.

I know it's difficult to write the alphabet in a phonetic way, but I hope you really don't put all those 'uh's on the end of sounds, it makes learning to blend for reading very difficult..

(now ducking and running away..)

I've always had this problem despite having a good education, getting a degree and progresing well in a techie career.
Could never remember times tables.
Find it hard to remember sequences like telephone numbers.
Spellings are not great, I have a blind spot with the vowels.
Have to back track to the start of the alphabet.
Left and right are hit and miss.

RSTU

I spent a few months at primary school very confused when returning to school after measles. The whole class had to repeatidly chant a wierd song of random sounds with clearly part way through men nem OH! Peas Queue, I rest to you blah blah xyz

I had the highest reading ability of the class

maizie, I try and pronounce 'q' as in 'quick' - but leaving off the 'ick'.

As for the 'uh' sounds - it is difficult to write the phonetics down, but I'd spell 'cat' 'cu a tu'. You surely can't avoid something after the consonants? Makes a hell of a lot more sense than 'see ay tee', anyway!

I do the song. Every damn time. I worked in an office, filing, for 10 years. STILL do the song.

My dad can't do left and right so we use 'to me, to you.' It's like driving with the chuckle brothers.

I always get mixed up around klmnop

I don't have a particular problem with the alphabet but totally identify with not being able to remember very common/familiar things, like the names of friends I've known for 20 years.

Also struggle with my age - I was in A&E last night (not serious but it looked like it at the time) and I'm pretty sure the fact I couldn't remember my age counted towards a diagnosis of slightly disordered mental state. My mental state was fine, I just don't have a clue (the nurse worked it out after I'd gaped like a fish for several minutes)

DH CANNOT do nursery rhymes. He sings Seesaw Marjorie Daw as 'Johnny shall have a banana' EVERY SINGLE TIME.

I'm another one that has to sing the alphabet. If you randomly asked me what comes after T, i'd never be able to answer without singing it.

DH was singing the alphabet with DS (who was 3 at the time) when he kept singing, "N, O, P, Q, R, Z... No, no wait! N, O, P, Q, R, Z..."

He did this at least 3 times before DS put him out of his misery and said, "S, daddy! S is the letter after R!"