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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.

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  • My memory is probably a bit different to most peoples'. I don't remember much of my childhood up to my time in Secondary School besides very key events.

    I tend to have a near photographic memory of landmarks in locations I have been to before. Once I have been somewhere at least once, it is fairly hard for me to get lost. When I was living near London, my family would often ask me to help them map out routes across the London Underground since I would be able to calculate it at very fast speeds. 

    My ability to remember less mundane things in the short-term however is fairly limited. I often find myself needing to look through the same places more than once if I lost something, or looking up the answer to the same problem multiple times if I didn't write it down fast enough. 

    As far as Good/Bad memories are concerned, I would say I have mostly a mix but my brain lingers a lot more on the bad than the good from what I can tell. (Though that's more of how our psychology in general works I think)

    Broadly speaking if I have enough time to prepare for something, I will be fine. If I am told to prepare for an exam, and have to answer questions in a short setting, that will be where I struggle. My Academic Results categorically show I do infinitely better in Coursework settings than exams. Including one time I had to avoid breaking down when I started the one module in my entire degree that requires exams to determine my grade.

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  • My memory is probably a bit different to most peoples'. I don't remember much of my childhood up to my time in Secondary School besides very key events.

    I tend to have a near photographic memory of landmarks in locations I have been to before. Once I have been somewhere at least once, it is fairly hard for me to get lost. When I was living near London, my family would often ask me to help them map out routes across the London Underground since I would be able to calculate it at very fast speeds. 

    My ability to remember less mundane things in the short-term however is fairly limited. I often find myself needing to look through the same places more than once if I lost something, or looking up the answer to the same problem multiple times if I didn't write it down fast enough. 

    As far as Good/Bad memories are concerned, I would say I have mostly a mix but my brain lingers a lot more on the bad than the good from what I can tell. (Though that's more of how our psychology in general works I think)

    Broadly speaking if I have enough time to prepare for something, I will be fine. If I am told to prepare for an exam, and have to answer questions in a short setting, that will be where I struggle. My Academic Results categorically show I do infinitely better in Coursework settings than exams. Including one time I had to avoid breaking down when I started the one module in my entire degree that requires exams to determine my grade.

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