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Autism and Memory

DaisyGirl

I have been reading the book "The Reason I Jump", and I was very interested in the description given of the way memory is experienced and organised in people with autism.

Does anyone else on the spectrum experience traumatic memories as if they are happening right here in the present? I experience traumatic memories with all the attendant emotion (usually fear, panic and any pain) as if it is happening all over again, and this is also how Naoki descibes it. It seems a lot like the way people with PTSD decribe reliving their stressful memories.

Also, I also have memories organised in an odd way. Especially from childhood they are all sort of random, with big gaps where there should be memories of particular people or places there is nothing, but others are in incredible detail.

Just curious.

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  • I have a visual thought process, but I also have a verbal thought process.  I can manipulate images in my head with a narrative alongside.

    I need to see physical pictures of things to help with explanations, especially with things like flat pack furniture!

    I am rubbish at maths but score highly verbally.  I usually would have to read written instructions a few times and break them down to be able to understand them.  Less so with scientific material and barely, if at all, with stories (either fact or fiction).

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  • I have a visual thought process, but I also have a verbal thought process.  I can manipulate images in my head with a narrative alongside.

    I need to see physical pictures of things to help with explanations, especially with things like flat pack furniture!

    I am rubbish at maths but score highly verbally.  I usually would have to read written instructions a few times and break them down to be able to understand them.  Less so with scientific material and barely, if at all, with stories (either fact or fiction).

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