[Augustine23388]

Why does it seem like elderly people often expect other people to remember everything they say, even if they’ve only said or explained it one time? Then they get panicky when you don’t remember what they told you, and even more panicky when they don’t remember it themselves. It comes across as ‘I’m old, I’m wise, what I say matters, and if you don’t understand or remember everything I say, you’re stupid’. I wonder if it has something to do with the rote memorization this generation experienced in their education. Perhaps I learn a little differently from most people in both their generation or my own, but I can’t (or won’t?) memorize things unless I can do so in relation to other things I already know, or unless I absorb facts by repeated exposure. I find that senior citizens sometimes get impatient with me for my method of learning, but when I do finally learn something, I never forget it. I do not see how my method of learning hurts anyone (except perhaps me, in the short term) and I don’t understand why it bothers elderly people so much. Do they think I’m being arrogant because I refuse to memorize everything they say?

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Name : Augustine23388, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 40, City : Columbia, State : SC, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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