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?
Wow some of you have amazing memories! ^-^
My memory is actually shockingly bad lol despite my still young age I can't really remember more than a few years ago.
According to my mental health people it's to do with my mental health. I know it's really annoying whatever it is!
I struggle with my own memories.
I struggle to remember what I've read.
I struggle to remember what day it is lol.
Hopefully my memory will come back if not by the time I'm 80 I'm going to forget evening :p
I blocked a great deal of my past till I went into serious therapy for 5 years and it all flooded back.