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Autistic memory

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9 months ago

I've not Googlerated this so I'm starting from quite a low point of knowledge.

I know that we can tend to have very good memory in certain areas and I know about the autistic savant.

So, what do you know about how our memories work and why?

Mainly though, what is your memory like?

What do you remember and what do you not so well?

I have an autistic friend and he can quote back to me the day of the week, date and year a lot of events happened -  small events, things like the day we went on a day trip somewhere over the whole of his life - he's 63.

I don't have that kind of gift but I have realised in recent times that my memory is quite unusual.

I do remember being in the pram and then the pushchair.

However, what I remember really well is places, events in my life and people and the things that people say, going back all 6 decades.

I can mentally walk through every room of the places I've lived in during my life and even where the furniture is.

How about you?

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  • 9 months ago

    I am not very good at remembering recent things and frequently going into a room have to stop and think what I went to get. If I have something new to learn I have to keep doing it before I remember. I am terrible at remembering telephone numbers and also birthdays unless they are certain numbers.

    However in regard to the past I can be on a journey and at a particular place remember who was with me and what we talked about many years ago. I also have memories about perfumes, for example a smell of a soap I took to a particular special place I went to stay years ago. 

  • 9 months ago in reply to Homebird
    Homebird said:
    However in regard to the past I can be on a journey and at a particular place remember who was with me and what we talked about many years ago. I also have memories about perfumes, for example a smell of a soap I took to a particular special place I went to stay years ago. 

    Both those points are true of me too.

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  • 9 months ago in reply to Homebird
    Homebird said:
    However in regard to the past I can be on a journey and at a particular place remember who was with me and what we talked about many years ago. I also have memories about perfumes, for example a smell of a soap I took to a particular special place I went to stay years ago. 

    Both those points are true of me too.

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