"What happens when our brain goes blank"
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My thoughts often feel like endless streams of information. That’s until someone asks me the name of a stranger I met six or seven seconds before, and my mind goes blank. Mind blanking is much more common than you might think. Researchers think that our minds are blank somewhere between 5 and 20 percent of the time. Neuroscientists face significant hurdles in adding color and detail to the mystery of an empty mind, but new research is trying to establish the edges of these formless thoughts.
The article caught my attention when it started off talking about names. I blank on them a lot! It is weird, too, when I have trouble recalling a name it is likely to pop into my thoughts later. Seconds later...minutes later...even when I stopped thinking about it.
As I explained it to the psychologist who did my Adult Autism Assessment... People are always introducing me to strangers. Who cares who a stranger is?! Let me get to know the person and then introduce us!
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When diagnosed I bought champagne!
I finally knew why people were strange.
09 Jun 2025, 2:44 pm
