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Episodic memory

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I'm just wondering if my memory problems are relatively common among those with ASC or if this is a totally separate thing. I have little difficulty remembering facts or procedures - my problem is purely related to episodic memory. If i think back to an event I attended in either the recent or distant past I could relate a few facts about the event, but its as if they are facts told to me by someone else. I have no personal connection to the event. For example if I think back to funerals or weddings I've been to there is no recollection of my emotions at the time. In no way am I reliving those events in my mind. I am totally unable to remember / imagine what I was like at a younger stage of my life. Its as though my entire life simply consists of now. 

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  • I have very poor episodic memory., but a really good memory for facts and figures. Apparently it's typical for men to have a poorer memory for events and people compared to women, and autism could be considered as that taken to the extreme.

    I don't remember huge parts of my childhood. My sister or mum will tell me about some holiday we went on and I have no recollection, but I can tell them every phone number we ever had, the make and model and number plate of every car we had, etc.

    I've started keeping a journal and it's weird and interesting to read entries from 4 years ago. It's almost like reading the life of a different person.

  • in reply to Untoward
    Untoward said:
    It's almost like reading the life of a different person.

    Exactly!

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