Anyone else have hyperthymesia?
According to one website it is a God gifted trait that can not be achieved through medical assistance or by doing something.
Hyperthymesia is just a very strong autobiographical memory, it is NOT eidetic or photographic memory. I am an aspi with it, and often wonder if the two are linked.
Mine is not complete but pretty good. Last night I was tired of reading so I just let my mind throw stuff at me. I just went to random memories and then delved into them. Houses I lived in when I was a toddler, rockpools I looked int when I was early school age.
The difference with me, if that when I do this, I can then recall the whole experience, how the air smelled, a dog braking in the vicinity as if I was there again. I can work with the memory, play it forward or go back to what I was doing immediately before. So I relaxed and went through many pleasant memories, so immersed in them. This kept going while I fell asleep and unfortunately I also recalled some really unpleasant crap as well. It is a real bummer never being able to forget much.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I unfortunately do... it's like being in a movie theater with smellivision... considering my childhood, it's not a very nice movie... so i close and lock doors....to this day, i remember when i was 2 days old in a bassinet with pneumonia, and my grandmother barking, "don't smoke in the house! Chris has pneumonia... he could die!"
Exactly like that.... and everything onward.... expect the parts i carpet-bombed with drugs and alcohol... lol
Falcone17east
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Nov 12, 2018
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bingo, that's exactly it, and if only teh majority of memories were pleasant it may be ok, but same, many are things I just do not want to remember, that said, I remember the rare good things just as clearly.
When my daughter was a child of about 4 she could remember a movie she had watched just a few times. She could remember all the words and sound effects, although she didn't imitate the sound effects she described them. Today at 39 yrs old she has an excellent memory but she can't do what she could as a child.
tymtravler
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Apr 8, 2018
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I don't have it but that sounds really neat.
OpposingOpposum
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Apr 7, 2018
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