42 and I've quietly become a woman who cannot function in a meeting without writing absolutely everything down. Like, not just actions. Everything. The question I'm about to ask. The word I'm searching for. The name of the project I've been working on for eight months. I used to be the person who remembered all of it. Dates, names, who said what, what was agreed. My manager used to joke that I was the unofficial minute-taker because I just knew. Now I sit there with my notebook open and I'm still losing the thread halfway through someone's sentence. I've started writing a few bullet points before any meeting I'm in. Just what it's about, who's coming, what I need to contribute. Takes maybe three minutes. It genuinely helps. Not because it jogs my memory in the moment but because I go in feeling slightly less like I'm about to be caught out. The other thing I've noticed is the 3pm wall. I go almost non-functional. I've been trying a proper snack around half two, something with actual protein rather than a biscuit, and it seems to take the edge off a bit. Not a miracle but I don't feel quite as desperate by 4. I want to talk to my GP about whether this is peri. I've been writing down specific examples of the work stuff because I think if I go in and say "I feel foggy" she'll just tell me to sleep more. But if I say "I forgot the name of our biggest client mid-presentation" that feels harder to brush off. Anyone else doing this? Just quietly building scaffolding around yourself so nobody notices? 😩