The past month or so I've genuinely been worried that I'm having cognitive decline - forgetting words, losing my place halfway through speaking a sentence.

People who've known me since my twenties assure me I've always been this way and remind me it's big reason I avoid socializing or speaking. I type. For me, brain to tongue isn't wired as solidly as brain to fingers.

True. But I also think a lot if it is this constant intense stress/horror of fascism and the dismantling of the US and the psychotic threats to Canadians and ALL THAT SHIT.