Do I ever feel like I’ve lost some of who I used to be before the memory impairment?

(Chapter 24 My Thoughts and Feelings in my book)

What I feel that I have lost is being comfortable meeting new people. It is as though I'm keeping this big secret of living with mild cognitive impairment. I don't want someone to know about my diagnosis before they get to know "me". That is because I don't want to be judged because of something that I can't change and something that it is not my fault.