I chose a character from the animated Disney Pixar film Finding Nemo, and the sequel Finding Dory. Ellen DeGeneres plays Dory, who is a female Palette surgeonfish, a saltwater fish which lives in the ocean. Ever since Dory was little she had trouble remembering things. As she quotes “I suffer from short term memory loss”. Dory, being an animated character was never diagnosed with a mental disorder. The idea for this character’s symptoms came from the old myth that fish only have a three second memory.
Dory was born in a Marine Life Institute in California, and lived in the “open ocean exhibit”. Throughout both movies it does not explain if she was born with short term memory loss or if she started experiencing it after birth. We do know that
