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for people on the asperger side of the spectrum I was wondering if visual aids would help?

I heard htere is a native american tribe that did this and called the memeory wampum. It is how they remembered their entire history. The visually memorized the information on belts s well that llustrated what they were attempting to memorize.

Visual aids do help with me, that's why I love Japanese writing systems, with the kanji having many visual cues (Called "radicals") that tell you the meaning. But I find the most helpful ways of memorization for me are auditory, not visual, since I have echolalia and process information by hearing and repeating it over again.

any other people?

If you are memorizing facts, I recommend making flash-cards. While the process of making flash-cards is tedious and time-consuming, the process of writing the information down can be enormously helpful. Afterwards, frequently quiz yourself with your new flash-cards. Good luck.

I think it rather depends on your learning style and what you need the information for. The way I usually memorize things, if it is sufficient to have it available in serial form, I generally try to say the first line to myself until I can do that without needing to check my reference, then I need to add the second line and recite the first line and the second line together. I keep on like this, always reciting everything I have already done as I go. The big thing is just building neurological pathways through repetition. Then to really secure the placement of them, quiz yourself on it later, just at some later point in the day, without reference to your reference, try to go over in your head as much of it as you can remember. If you can get to the point you can remember the whole thing that way, you will pretty much never forget it. If it is something that requires more random access or operational knowledge, like resistor color codes or some such, the best way is just by using it. Use the method above to get to the point where you can find what you need to know, even if rather slowly, without needing to check a reference, and as you use it you will speed it up. Alternatively, you can try to find some pattern to describe it in your head without needing to check memorization. For example, the number of members WP currently has is 25,862. If for some reason you needed to remember that number, you might remember that the first digit is 2, the same as the last digit, which has a difference of 3 from the second digit, and is 1/3 the second to last digit, and the middle digit is 2 more than the one to its right and 3 more than the one to it's left, so starting from 2 on the left, you add 3 twice to get to 5 and then 8, and then subtract 2, your original number, to get 6, and then divide by 3, what you had previously been adding to get to 2, your original number. Note that this is just how my brain is wired and your mind may work differently. You might try adapting some of this technique to your own learning style though. Personally I have never found flashcards to be at all helpful in memorizing anything, as once I get to the point where I can recite when quizzed, I don't really need the cards to tell me what to recite.