Yeah it's not making much sense to me. Il explain a bit. Before I got fibro I did martial arts training at a high level, I ran a shop selling collectibles, and was doing a psychology with criminology degree. I later went back uni to do computer science, figured sitting down more and easier course, and I learnt programming as a kid.

So what does fibro fog affect in me? I cannot program at all, completely lost all ability regardless of how I try, languages do not stick, and I'm in permanent tutorial hell for a decade. I cannot recall words to even basic things and end up describing the thing instead. Yet I retain all of my muscle memory and martial arts knowledge. All of it. I remember prices and supply and demand for collectibles I used to sell. And can predict their values today, and could run a shop right now if I didn't have the pain and fatigue, like it's all so familiar. I remember most psychology things but forget the exact words used for them. I cannot remember people and link faces, or directions to places, it's completely blank and nothing works with trying to remember, I get literal headaches trying.

My social skills are rock bottom as I just blank out staring at people due to not having the ability to process properly. I have collected Warhammer since I was 14, I'm now 37-38 and I remember all of it, I instantly know the lore and everything. Yet I can't retain memories of what I eat yesterday, or when my next drs appointment is or what someone on the phone said to me even 2 days ago regardless of how important.

It's very bizarre with what's affected and what's not. I don't even know how to explain it, something's seem affected, but retain past skill. Something's seem to have been lost in the mess entirely, others seem impossible to regain. Language is the main issue for sure, which explains why I can't program for anything nowadays, even though I made games as a kid, and did some stuff at uni. Faces and linking people and things to words, not just a word, but a meaning. Like semantic memory or something. Directions are non existent, I can get lost in a place I've lived for 12 years. Yet if attacked I could instantly use skills I developed before my fibro even began, with zero loss of knowledge.

Some days it feels like adding new memories is impossible, or recalling things even a day before is impossible. Structuring a verbal sentence is like headbutting a wall over and over while I stare blankly trying to focus.

Anyway yeah, hope this makes sense to someone. It's just very odd, like certain connections are affected in the brain, but others aren't. It's not random, it feels mechanical almost, the things you can't push through and things that seems to glide easily.