Basic Amnesia for Writers
I'm trying to clean out my main USB stick and I found this, which I started writing right after Winter Soldier first came out (you can probably tell.) I kept not posting it because I kept thinking I needed to do a better literature review & add some recommended reading, and then falling into a research hole. But re-reading it from this distance I still think it's pretty good? So here is the general section, for anyone who is still interested in learning about how amnesia works. (I will post the "how does this apply to Bucky specifically" section separately if anyone cares, since it's at least 40% headcanon by volume.)
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So, with the continuing popularity of a Certain Pairing in a Certain Fandom, there have been a lot of people writing about induced amnesia. As usual, a lot of people are getting it wrong.
Disclaimer: I'm not an expert in amnesia or even a neurologist, but I've had a lifelong fascination with Weird Stuff Brains Do - compounded by watching two grandmothers fall apart with dementia before I hit middle school - so I've read a lot of pop-sci about it. So here, for your delectation, is a very short and completely un-cited Amnesia for Writers primer.
( Let's talk about Memory )
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So, with the continuing popularity of a Certain Pairing in a Certain Fandom, there have been a lot of people writing about induced amnesia. As usual, a lot of people are getting it wrong.
Disclaimer: I'm not an expert in amnesia or even a neurologist, but I've had a lifelong fascination with Weird Stuff Brains Do - compounded by watching two grandmothers fall apart with dementia before I hit middle school - so I've read a lot of pop-sci about it. So here, for your delectation, is a very short and completely un-cited Amnesia for Writers primer.
( Let's talk about Memory )