Published on 12, July, 2020
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?
Hi
My visual memory is very good and more centred around events and conversations. I’m not sure if this is because I very often go over what I said to make sure I came across in the right way. I can remember my responses to things from years ago.
music also creates a mental picture for me and takes me back to sometimes good and sometimes sad times, it’s almost like watching it in my mind but I’m actually in it (hope that makes sense)?
Sadly my day to day memory is terrible and was thinking… how many years will it take until I can remember certain things. I mean my memory must have always been this way so at some point it must register? I find it really odd