In support of Dr. Ford

[I_am_not_mafia]

I believe Ford when she says he did it, just like I believe my mom that she was too scared to look at them, but was able to point out the ally behind the shopping center she was raped in. When you are under extreme stress you can very easily remember vivid details while missing others.

Both with Ford and my mother, they each had very vivid details of different things, while the trauma clouded other things. 

Ford remembered his face, but not the exact location or day. My mom remembered the exact location and day, but had no description of their faces. 

That's the effect of adrenaline on the brain. It focuses the attention on very specific things. And of course the more focused you are on one thing, the less focused you become on everything else.

It's a known phenomenon in the world of martial arts when you're in a fight. One typical example would be that you are facing off against one person and because of the adrenaline you don't notice his friend coming from the side until he punches you in the face.

So you get taught that if you are sure that you can't avoid a fight, you need to avoid making eye contact and use your peripheral vision for keeping track of what's happening around you. You can react just as fast but not get locked on focusing on just one thing.

It's also a problem in extreme sports. For example, my paragliding instructor went on an SIV course where you deliberately deform your glider in mid-flight so you can learn how to correct it. He almost crashed into the ground and died because he became so focused on trying to sort out his wing. It was only the screaming of his instructor over the radio that finally caught his attention and he realised he had literally seconds left to throw his reserve parachute.

I was once flying 800 feet up above a mountain top when I got caught in a gust front, convergence and a thermal all at the same time without a reserve parachute. My glider died on me in quite a spectacular fashion because the air was so unstable. I only remember snippets, but those snippets are burned into my memory. It actually took me quite an effort to actually piece together all those snippets to figure out what happened.

But of course a coward like Trump would never have experienced this himself. All he has ever known is being waited on hand and foot.