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Autism and memory

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What is your memory like and what do you remember best?

My earliest memories go back to me being a baby in a pram and I have a lot of quite intense childhood memories.

So, my memories go far back and I remember a lot of my life.

I'm not sure that my memory is anything special though with regard to general knowledge ie facts.

In general knowledge quizes I tend to get the obscure facts no-one else knows.

I know there are different types of memory but it's an aspect of autism I'm learning about.

Please share anything you know about the correlation between the two.

Thanks.

Parents

  • I don't really understand how memory works and how it is affected by autism. I seem to have a better memory than some people for events, but I don't remember much of my early child (before age 7). I also often forget what word I want you use, which is frustrating because it halts my communication while my brain hunts for the word that I need.

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  • I don't really understand how memory works and how it is affected by autism. I seem to have a better memory than some people for events, but I don't remember much of my early child (before age 7). I also often forget what word I want you use, which is frustrating because it halts my communication while my brain hunts for the word that I need.

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  • in reply to Lotus

    I have a good memory and can remember some things from when I was a couple of years old.

    People don't like doing quizzes with me, because I tend to get a lot of the answers, unless it's certain subjects that don;t interest me like sport or soaps. That being said there are questions on university challenge that I don't understand at all, I know what the individual words mean but when put together I'm lost, I still have trouble with only connect too.

  • in reply to Lotus
    Lotus said:
    I also often forget what word I want you use, which is frustrating because it halts my communication while my brain hunts for the word that I need.

    Unfortunately word finding difficulties appear to go hand in hand with ageing.

    I'm the same.