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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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  • If I can refer back to my observations about young people spending time on the computer, I appreciate parents' concerns about their children having only virtual lives.

    I think we have to be realistic about ASD - "normal" social interaction is hard to achieve - bashing kids to make them "normal" isn't the answer. Parents need to help their children find ways around this, like acting social roles, but recognise that they cannot make them normal.

    I think many young people's lives are being spoiled through parents obsessing about their lack of a social life.

    On the other hand there is a move afoot to recognise that encouraging young people with ASD to develop their aptitudes is a more productive way forward. 

    So to get back to the thread, different memory structures are something that need to be developed. There's no reason why the majority memory structure has to be enforced, indeed differences are part of evolution.

    And if children with ASD think and memorise differently, that's surely to be encouraged - not beaten out of them by parents obsessed with the notion that there's only one way of thinking.

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  • If I can refer back to my observations about young people spending time on the computer, I appreciate parents' concerns about their children having only virtual lives.

    I think we have to be realistic about ASD - "normal" social interaction is hard to achieve - bashing kids to make them "normal" isn't the answer. Parents need to help their children find ways around this, like acting social roles, but recognise that they cannot make them normal.

    I think many young people's lives are being spoiled through parents obsessing about their lack of a social life.

    On the other hand there is a move afoot to recognise that encouraging young people with ASD to develop their aptitudes is a more productive way forward. 

    So to get back to the thread, different memory structures are something that need to be developed. There's no reason why the majority memory structure has to be enforced, indeed differences are part of evolution.

    And if children with ASD think and memorise differently, that's surely to be encouraged - not beaten out of them by parents obsessed with the notion that there's only one way of thinking.

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