Memory Skills

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I haven't used my memory skills lately in the way that I used to. But I was curious, is anyone here renowned in their schools, workplaces, local communities or whatever for having an amazing memory?

In my school years people certainly noticed my memory skills. I went to a high school with around 1000 pupils, and somehow got hold of the list of all pupils in the school. These lists had a) middle initials of each pupil and b) their class.

People would ask me middle initials/classes of each pupil and I got it right every time. I was never wrong, I know that for a fact. Sometimes they would fill me in on what the middle name actually was, and I always remembered every time If someone didn't have a middle name, I would know that too.

I didn't even memorise these with effort, I just knew. Memory skills like this are an Aspie trait, and I was wondering if anyone else has had their memory skills noticed like this.

I was looking at testing last evening as I was just accepted with the state vocational rehab.

Verbal processing (spoken word) types of memory I am bad at. Remembering faces I am bad at, not really documented.

However I believe that anyone that focuses on a singular subject can remember large amounts of information, my interests never were that, figuring out people yes. Hardly memorization required for such topics rather then concepts which are in theoreticals, not factual enough to have strings of memorized materials regularly.

Memory skills are impaired in some respects.

Hope this was the proper response in similarity.

My teachers used to b***h about me not taking notes. After a couple of tests, they don't b***h no more.

In special ed, dispite the hand problem with writting, I had note takers so I could just visual watch. Verbal processing reduces comprehension in intention.

I have excellent memory skills!

I am jelious, I've always wanted to retain more information for internal reference with ease.

Maybe one day science will invent neuropathic chips for brain upgrades.

When I was about 12, I memorized the informational blurb on the back of a shampoo bottle and was able to recite it on command. I also memorized the all lines and songs to the Disney movie, Aladin that same year, I think. Fortunatley, I forget those things later on, but my Random Access Memory is still pretty good. I can memorize entire conversations, but I have a hard time identifying the basic subject. When I was in elementary school and they'd have us memorize things like preambles, intros to famous speaches, I was always right on top of that. But when it came to memorizing locations of places (geography), I was out of luck. It's strange, the types of things I remember.

I have a speedy, near photographic memory when I learn something and apply it right away. Also, learning fast is one of my talents (the one from which all others derive). This is very useful for software engineering and people sometimes think I've known things for a while when I've just learned it. But, if I hear a conversation or get some data passively, like in a class room, my memory seems to be average at best.

One thing: I noted that, in school, when I stopped taking notes and just payed attention to the professors, I started getting higher grades. This could have been because I don't like to study, but it also could mean that I got a chance to digest the information more the professor sent and memory came as a natural result of understanding and paying more attention. It's hard to stop taking notes, though, in a world that worships those notes.

I too have great memory with anything I have experienced, like 3 dimentional and incorporating senses, example. If I lay a pen down on a table and go on holiday for a year, if somebody asks me about that pen I could instantly not only tell them the marks on the pen, but the texture, the colour, the feeling of the pen, the exact position it was put on the table, I can even remember how it rolls as I lay it down, where it rolls and how much it turns as it rolls, like a video but I can kind of see "into" the video like I'm reliving it, this is because I hear and see and taste and feel like it's the real thing.

I also can remember a rubix cube very quick, can rememeber lots of pi and numbers. One thing I completely struggle with is remembering people's names, and streets, I can't even rememeber my friends names sometimes.

Anyone else like this?

I used to have what I guess would have been called a photographic memory as a child and into my high school years. I was tested in school by these people doing something for poor readers even though I was an excellent reader. They wanted to see how much I could retain from having first words, then long lines of random letters, then sentences flashed on a screen. And I really did not do much studying in school because I would either scan my notes or the textbook right before a test and it was like I could turn the pages in my memory and look up the answers. One teacher in a history class had put an entire list of dates on an overhead projector with the admonishon that everyone was going to know these by the end of the class (meaning semester). He took it down and while he was blathering on about the class I wrote out the dates. I handed the paper in just to see his reaction (lol). However, that has diminshed as I have gotten older.

My 4 1/2 year old usually has a story memorized after two or three readings. If you make the slightest mistake he is quick to correct you. You don't realize how poorly people read until they read a story to my son.

I have a very visual memory, and could never remember lists, text, or other material such as that, but I can remember pictures, sounds, and experiences very easily.

For example, If I were downtown, and someone asked me where I was later on, I probably will NOT remember that I was at second and main street, but instead could easily DESCRIBE where I was, for example. I was standing on the corner of a large 4-lane one-way street where a small neighborhood road intersected it. On one corner, there was a fifties looking diner beside a few row houses, and on the opposite corner was a modern-style office building with a stock ticker sign on the front. A bit further down the big road was a large downhill slope. I could also smell the scent of hamburgers cooking, and I heard a diesel train locomotive go by in the distance, but did not see it.

The interesting thing about this too is if I smell hamburgers later, I will vividly remember the experience of standing on the corner of 2nd and Main streets

wow Keeno, you were very quick at solving my name, very impressed.

Yeah I've also had people test me on things like numbers and car plates.