I see it differently: as a teen, I could remember the exact word for lots of things, I could recall numbers and data with high precision. Nowadays, I'm pretty bad at all those things, but I can very well understand metaphors and connects concepts from wildly different topics — which I couldn't back then.

I see this kind of "interconnecting ideas" of my current years as somewhat connected with "fuzzy memory". It's like, when I retrieve data, it's not as precise, and sometimes I get neighbouring data, but that can actually of use.