lyon, i have found that most of my experiences with narcolepsy and forgetting is because im too tired to remember, or i am involved in a repetitive task. now if i put the keys in the fridge because i am tired and i forget what ive done with them, it seems that i could spank a child in a similiar state though more likely i would spank the dog and put the child on a leash. as for a repetitive task, if spanking a child becomes common place then i wouldnt think it would matter if you remembered or not.
possible? you must remember that narcolepsy does not cause one to forget, it causes people to reach the stage where they are so tired that they dont recall correctly.
so in this case, i think its the tiredness that some people with narcolepsy experience, the same tiredness anyone experiences if they are robbed of sleep, that could be a cause.
i hoped that helped, im no expert...

When a person spanks a child there is emotion involved and this produces adrenalin, which is a stimulant. So, I thought how could a person be half asleep when they spank a child. My neice has a 3 year old boy. Either she or her boyfriend spanked the boy and left a hand print bruise on his bottom. The little boy says the boyfriend did it. The boyfriend says my neice did it. My neice doesn't remember doing it but believes her boyfriend when he says she did it. As a result she now has only supervised visitation!

to tell the truth i would believe the little girl. but then again i know neither of thee people involved.

I would tend to believe the child as well. But I don't know any of them either....

Sounds like she needs to dump the boyfriend. I don't believe you can spank a child that hard and not remember. I believe that the sleepiness can make you more impatient with a child who misbehaves, but not forgetting the way you would discipline the child.

I'm sorry to hear about the situation with your neice. That has to be awful. I have two children of my own and have been diagnosed with the narcolepsy since July 2005. I spank my kids when needed but I always remember. There are days I can't remember 90% of the day but a mother would remember, no matter how tired, if she spanked her child hard enough to leave a mark because her mother instinct would override anything else going on and her conscience would kick in immediately. Also, I don't care how young the child, if her son said the boyfriend did it, then he did. I have a 4 year old son and a 2 year old daughter and they can tell you everything all the time. I know she's questioning her sanity and memory and decision making skills right now but she needs to trust her child and always put him first and trust her love for her child and know that her memory will never be that bad from narcolepsy or sleep deprivation to not know if she harmed her child or not. She needs to trust herself and her child and turn the boyfriend in because obviously he can't stand up for what's right and admit he made a mistake rather than watch her son and her be separated like this and there's no way he can really love her if he's willing to watch her go thru this kind of pain and not make it right. As a mom, you don't leave the decisions of raising your child up to someone else. You have to go with your gut and do what's right for your child. If a mom doesn't protect her child, who will? Please tell her that if she thinks she's a bad parent because she gets tired, angry, frustrated, short on patience, confused, emotional and anything else she might be feeling, she's dead wrong. Diabetic episodes can cause memory loss but if she was a diabetic, do you think she'd make the same decision to believe the boyfriend? I hope I haven't offended anyone on this but I have a tendency to speak my mind. Hope this helps.

My neurologist and I had (at one time) decided I would try to take two ambien at night to see if it would help... The two nights that I took two... I ended up not remembering things. I didn't spank my children, but I guess one night I was in my son's closet looking for a movie the kids could watch (I guess I appeared a little loopy), my husband asked me what I was doing... He got me to stand up to leave, he asked me to turn off the closet light, and I guess I couldn't quite reach for the switch... I kept kinda missing it? The following night something else happened that I don't remember... Thank goodness nothing serious... however the next night I did NOT take two... The consequences aren't worth the sleep. I don't like not remembering what I did.

I at times forget things, I find it hard to understand that someone could have spanked a child and not remember,even having Narcolepsy!!!!!!! I'm not trying to form any judgements! It's just hard to believe!

I have never done anything i do not remember. Why are you asking this question should be in the discussion. Do you think you spanked your child and do not remember. Memory loss is not a symptom of narcolepsy.

I think memory loss IS a sign of narcolepsy, though normally I think it is not remembering a conversation (things others said, or things I may have said) OR it can be simple things like, "why am I in this room?".

This is not advise, but a discussion point.
No way could you smack a child and not remember. Lyon I hope your neice is not with that boyfriend anymore, because that is just rubbish that a person could leave a bruise and not remember doing it.
We have a sleep disorder, not memory loss