Sometimes I feel like I am a child

(Chapter 12 Navigating Relationships While Living with a Memory Impairment in my book)

Sometimes I feel as though my thirty-five-year-old daughter needs to talk to me like I'm a child. It happens when she says something to me and I don't understand her words. Most of the time I will ask her and she will explain it again, but there are times when all I can do is become very quiet. It is during these times, that I just don't have a clue as what to do. I have accepted this because I really don't have a choice. I think that sometimes I might be embarrassed to tell someone that I don’t understand something. Having problems like this can make me feel dumb. I know that this is not my fault or hers. I blame the memory impairment!