Problems with holding and remembering information.

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Hello, I'm wondering if anyone else has this problem too and what may be causing it.

When trying to learn about most subjects and do research on it via reading up on a certain subject or watching videos about it, I usually have great difficulty taking in, understanding and remembering the information and facts about the subject which is extremely annoying when I enjoy learning and find many subjects extremely interesting and want to learn about them for my own enjoyment only to forget key facts and information seconds or minutes later. I could spend hours researching only to realize at the end that I haven't actually learned much. Recently I have been watching documentaries and reading about the American revolution, Scientology and dianetics. I find them interesting but get frustrated because I struggle to take in what I have learned for example key people, events and why they happened, theories, dates and so on. The only way I can get past the issue is if watching a documentary on the American revolution for example, I can keep a pen and paper with me and when important facts and information is shown, I will pause it and write it down then repeat and this way I take it in, remember the information and learn. Also when I was reading up on Scientology, I would often stop after a paragraph, then read the paragraph again sometimes out loud, scroll back to the start and pick out all the most important facts, read them and then continue where I was and that helps too. I had this problem in school with every subject where I couldn't take in what the teacher was saying so I gave up trying to learn and started messing about instead. The only thing I'm an expert in is identifying historic artifacts and coins for people as I do a lot of metal detecting and have no trouble learning this skill.

I also recently found out I can hold, remember and understand information much much better after drinking alcohol. I felt down a few nights ago so i drank some vodka to the point of feeling tipsy and then went and done some research on British history and found I didn't have much of a problem taking in all what I was reading which is odd

The OP was so long I couldn't even read it. Talk about problems holding and remembering information if you can't get the information in the first place.

What you described happens to me. I love history but quickly forget most details. If I'm so interested that I go over it over and over I retain a lot more. But even then there are names, dates and details I don't remember or they get muddled.

My life. My whole life and I am fed up with it!!

5 failed college courses, all of which I've dropped out of before I could finish because of these difficulties. And being around people who can just remember stuff with zero effort just makes me feel s**t.

Yes, I struggle massively with this and it has affected my schoolwork. I have almost no free recall ability. I could study for hours and still not remember things. I learned eventually that it was because of a lesion on my left hippocampus that prevented it from working, and I subsequently got an NVLD diagnosis. If you don’t have a diagnosis of that, maybe you should look into it.

I've gotten so bad that they've treated me for dementia with Alheimer's medications. Currently they ascribe it to a functional cognitive disorder rather than Asperger's.

I have a lot of problems remembering things, always forget where I put certain things.
If I need these things I simply ask myself where I would put it and since I know myself, the thing is always there.
This solves so many problems.
Does anyone have a similar system?

Brain fog and depression can cause poor memory. I have poor memory