kontextmaschine:

As far as I can tell, the “old personality”, who I was until my later 30s around March 2020, was but didn’t realize it. And the “new personality”, who I am now since Covid spread to my brain in 2020 and rerolled everything, is not, but still uses mental structures and ways of thinking crafted under and for the old personality.

I’ve actually had amnesia and I explain it to people as the opposite of that – with amnesia I had no access to past memories (that’s “retrograde” amnesia, I also had “anterograde”, inability to form new ones like in Memento) but I was fundamentally the same person, with the same instincts and tendencies; across this I maintained full continuity of memory but I’m fundamentally a different person.