Since my main lemmy’s password is locked behind Bitwarden, I had to make a new account to post. Originally I started using passwords manager because I keep forgetting passwords. But my paranoid ass is so worried that someone saw me typing my Bitwarden master password so I feel the urge to change it. So now I forgot the new master password.
The password is a few word passphrase generated from a keyword. Like an acoustic poem, if you know what I mean. I know all the words except one word, and I know the starting letter of the word, just forgot the exact word. 🥲 Guess I’m gonna flip through the dictionary to find a word that feels right.
Um so… has anyone experienced memory issues? I’m a young adult (18-25 age range), so I feel so strange to be forgetting stuff so early. Like do young people normally forget things?
Oh god yes. I’ve always had short term memory issues, particularly exacerbated by anxiety and stress. My brain fills with static when there’s too much going on - i would never rely on my brain alone to remember something like a password. As far as i know this is fairly normal, especially if your brain is also trying to process some kind of stress or distraction at the same time. I write things down in physical notebooks, generally, as a failsafe, and automate pretty much everything with phone reminders. I’m around 30, but I’ve had these memory issues since childhood. If you’re super worried about security, you could maybe come up with some kind of personal story or internal symbolism that means something to you to remember it by? That way it wouldn’t be just a phrase, but something more relevant to you that might be easier to remember but also wouldn’t make sense to those who don’t also live in your head.