I just had to say this. I can’t keep it in anymore. I was in a meeting today, a big one. With clients, the whole team. And I just… forgot words. Like, actual words. Not even complicated ones. Just, basic. I was talking about the strategy, you know, the… the… “the thing we’re going to do.” That’s what I said. THE THING. I’m forty-eight. I’m a marketing manager. I’m supposed to know words. Everyone just kind of looked at me. My boss, the clients. I could feel my face get hot. I just kept going, trying to find it. The word. It was right there, I could almost taste it. Like when you’re trying to remember a song title. But it was worse. Because it wasn’t a song. It was just… a word. A regular word. And then it happened again. Later in the meeting. I was trying to explain something, and I just… blanked. “We need to… to… you know.” And I just trailed off. I felt like an IDIOT. A complete and utter idiot. Everyone else seemed fine. Talking perfectly. Using all the right words. And I’m sitting there, smiling, nodding, pretending like I didn’t just forget how to speak English for a second. I swear, my heart was POUNDING. What if I’m just… losing it? What if this is… the start of something? Something bad. I just kept thinking, “This can’t be happening.” When the meeting finally ended, I went to the bathroom and just splashed water on my face. Looked in the mirror. I don’t look forty-eight. I don’t feel forty-eight. But my brain… my brain feels like it’s forty-eight. Or eighty-eight. I don’t know. I’m so scared. I’m really, really scared. Is this normal? Forgetting things like that? Just… poof? Gone? I came home and just… went through the motions. Made dinner, helped with homework. Pretended like everything was fine. But it’s not fine. I keep replaying it. The looks on their faces. The way I stumbled. I just want to know if anyone else has this happen. Is it just stress? Or is it something else? Something… irreversible. The thought just won’t leave my head. It’s making me sick to my stomach.