karregaard
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Hi All,
I am a 31 year old female. As part of my work, I attend community events and health fairs. Most of the time, the organizers of these events ask us to have a small activity of some sort at our table if the event will have a large population of children. So, I went to an event yesterday that was like this...at our table (one of my co-workers was with me) we had 2 activities. One of them was "Q & A" trivia questions, both about our program and general knowledge questions.
Some of the questions we usually ask, especially with the older kids, is about state capitols & state facts, and to make it fun we usually ask the kids for facts about our home states, since my coworkers and I are from different states. I am from KY, born and raised,and I darn well know what the capitol of KY is, it's Frankfort! I've asked that question before to many, many kids as part of my work.
But it comes up yesterday, and it's like my brain just short-circuited. One kid says Frankfort, but it doesn't register. For some reason Lexington is on my mind, and I say that cities name, not realizing until MUCH later that I just gave these kids a completely wrong answer. (The kids or my co-worker didn't correct me--even after I did this a second time--so I didn't pick this up right away.) To say I was mortified later that night was an understatement. Then I start worrying a bit, both a.) that I was losing my mind, and 2.) that I was going to cause these kids to miss a social studies question on their next test, or that the social studies teacher at the school was going to hunt me down
All kidding aside, it really disturbed me because I am usually NOT this foggy-headed, and the fact that I came down with a pretty severe allergy attack/sinus headache/migrane later that day. Plus, it wasn't like I could feel myself struggling to find the answer, it was as though my brain simply "skipped over" the fact that someone was saying the correct answer without me detecting it, even though I obviously knew what the answer was and heard the child say it.
Is this something I should be concerned about, either on a mental or physical level?
I am a 31 year old female. As part of my work, I attend community events and health fairs. Most of the time, the organizers of these events ask us to have a small activity of some sort at our table if the event will have a large population of children. So, I went to an event yesterday that was like this...at our table (one of my co-workers was with me) we had 2 activities. One of them was "Q & A" trivia questions, both about our program and general knowledge questions.
Some of the questions we usually ask, especially with the older kids, is about state capitols & state facts, and to make it fun we usually ask the kids for facts about our home states, since my coworkers and I are from different states. I am from KY, born and raised,and I darn well know what the capitol of KY is, it's Frankfort! I've asked that question before to many, many kids as part of my work.
But it comes up yesterday, and it's like my brain just short-circuited. One kid says Frankfort, but it doesn't register. For some reason Lexington is on my mind, and I say that cities name, not realizing until MUCH later that I just gave these kids a completely wrong answer. (The kids or my co-worker didn't correct me--even after I did this a second time--so I didn't pick this up right away.) To say I was mortified later that night was an understatement. Then I start worrying a bit, both a.) that I was losing my mind, and 2.) that I was going to cause these kids to miss a social studies question on their next test, or that the social studies teacher at the school was going to hunt me down
All kidding aside, it really disturbed me because I am usually NOT this foggy-headed, and the fact that I came down with a pretty severe allergy attack/sinus headache/migrane later that day. Plus, it wasn't like I could feel myself struggling to find the answer, it was as though my brain simply "skipped over" the fact that someone was saying the correct answer without me detecting it, even though I obviously knew what the answer was and heard the child say it.
Is this something I should be concerned about, either on a mental or physical level?