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Does any one with ASD have any unique gifts . I seem to noticed every detail by site that others don’t see . Like my eyes scan everythink 

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  • I have a brain that's like a sponge for remembering technical information, numbers etc. In the pre-internet days when I was a little kid my parents used me like a combination of a notebook and Google. What time did they put X in the oven? What was the phone number for <company>. What's the car registration plate that we saw a few hours ago? What exact model of car did we have 4 years ago? What serial number part did the manual we read last week say we needed to buy? They would never double check or look it up because they knew that their 7 year old kid always remembered such things correctly.

    Sadly I have a very bad episodic memory, so I don't remember social/people type of stuff or events in my own life. So my family will tell me about a holiday I went on with them and I have no memory of it.

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  • I have a brain that's like a sponge for remembering technical information, numbers etc. In the pre-internet days when I was a little kid my parents used me like a combination of a notebook and Google. What time did they put X in the oven? What was the phone number for <company>. What's the car registration plate that we saw a few hours ago? What exact model of car did we have 4 years ago? What serial number part did the manual we read last week say we needed to buy? They would never double check or look it up because they knew that their 7 year old kid always remembered such things correctly.

    Sadly I have a very bad episodic memory, so I don't remember social/people type of stuff or events in my own life. So my family will tell me about a holiday I went on with them and I have no memory of it.

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    Paper said:
    Sadly I have a very bad episodic memory, so I don't remember social/people type of stuff or events in my own life. So my family will tell me about a holiday I went on with them and I have no memory of it.

    I'm the opposite of you.

    My memory for life events is quite detailed.

    There's quite a lot of research about memory and autism.

    I think that your type of recall is more typical of autistic people.