It is embarrassing when people ask me what I had for a recent meal or what I did yesterday, over the weekend, etc, because it will take me a very long pause to remember, if I can - I can only do so by trying to remember something, anything, surrounding that topic and see if I can follow that detail to another detail, towards another detail that will lead me to the answer - and sometimes I would still just draw a blank. What I do instead, so as not to make an awkward/strange interruption in the conversation, is that I just make up the answer - I don't wildly fabricate, I just guesstimate what might have been a reasonable thing to assume considering my usual patterns. So that's a lie - but I don't think of it as lying, even though it is a lie - it's just a coping mechanism to deal with my gaps in memory that others wouldn't understand. But yeah, I just forget. I think it's also because I don't consider these things to be important, so I don't make the effort to lodge them in my memory, and there's nothing about them that inherently causes them to lodge in my memory - but I think for people who aren't on the spectrum, they don't have to try - these kinds of things might naturally stay in their memory for some period of time. NAH, I should edit that - because even things that are important just don't stay in my head! I rely a lot on asking other people or looking things up as needed, most importantly, when needed - then I just use the info right then and there, and won't have to store it again. So in that way, I can do things over and over and still have to look up important details - unless I repeat the process enough that it finally goes into my long-term memory. And even then, if there's a long enough period between repetitions, then I forget all about it again.