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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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  • 5 months ago

    For me it is selective. I can remember the words to songs, if I like the song. This fades after about 7 to 10 years but all I have to do is hear the opening stanza and it all comes back to the fore. I can also remember being pre-language, mesmerized by lights and sounds.

    I can also remember conversations and what people said. This can be a problem. It has made me realize most folk don't remember what they said or what opinion they happened to have at a given point inn the past, sometimes even earlier in the same conversation.

    I think the main difference from a ND and an NT brain - again just my opinion-  is that the NT brain will flit lightly over the pond, skimming like a beautiful dragonfly. An ND brain zoom in on something and register it in depth, sometimes at the expense of other details in the "scene". I may stare hard, trying to figure how someone cut their new mustache in a new way and how it's different while not really hearing what they said, just captivated by their mouth and mustache moving. This is how my own brain works in any case.

    I have a bad habit of not paying very too close attention to my MT friends conversations. I have to watch that. Sometimes they surprise me with their perspicacity.

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  • 5 months ago

    For me it is selective. I can remember the words to songs, if I like the song. This fades after about 7 to 10 years but all I have to do is hear the opening stanza and it all comes back to the fore. I can also remember being pre-language, mesmerized by lights and sounds.

    I can also remember conversations and what people said. This can be a problem. It has made me realize most folk don't remember what they said or what opinion they happened to have at a given point inn the past, sometimes even earlier in the same conversation.

    I think the main difference from a ND and an NT brain - again just my opinion-  is that the NT brain will flit lightly over the pond, skimming like a beautiful dragonfly. An ND brain zoom in on something and register it in depth, sometimes at the expense of other details in the "scene". I may stare hard, trying to figure how someone cut their new mustache in a new way and how it's different while not really hearing what they said, just captivated by their mouth and mustache moving. This is how my own brain works in any case.

    I have a bad habit of not paying very too close attention to my MT friends conversations. I have to watch that. Sometimes they surprise me with their perspicacity.

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  • 5 months ago in reply to Uhane
    Uhane said:
    I may stare hard, trying to figure how someone cut their new mustache in a new way and how it's different while not really hearing what they said, just captivated by their mouth and mustache moving. This is how my own brain works in any case.

    Mine too.

    Uhane said:
    I can also remember conversations and what people said. This can be a problem. It has made me realize most folk don't remember what they said or what opinion they happened to have at a given point inn the past, sometimes even earlier in the same conversation.

    Me too.