Do other people say you notice more detail than others?

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I see details that nobody else sees and also have a long term memory that just won't stop. Some people have said that I have a photographic memory, but personally I do not believe this. I continually amaze my sister by recalling minute details from our childhood that she has long forgotten. I even remember the pain involved when my parents rinsed off my healing umbilical cord just after birth... or maybe it was my circumcision wound. That distinction is one that I do NOT remember... shame on me.

Ha! Yes.

I'm a great proofreader for instance, my eye sees typos before my brain understands what's wrong.

I have NVLD too...and I'm exactly like that.........I couldn't reproduce a figure (draw ) well if my life depended on it! I barely did that passably on my IQ test....my performance IQ is borderline-low average range (verbal IQ is above average-superior range). They couldn't even give me a full scale IQ score bcs it was so unreliable (such a big discrepancy). I am terrible at recognizing faces and have very poor memory for spatial directions! In this case I don't notice details or the whole picture...I'm just blind (figuratively speaking)=). My detail noticing is usually in regard to text (like you described) but I'm also very good at embedded figures tests. They noted on my assessment that I focused excessively on details and had difficulty with the gestalt.

by quick is .01 seconds quick, i dont read the text first , only after then answer questuins 'bout it

I point out patterns in things often. My friends say things like "i would never have thought that" or "i would never have seen that"

Amazingly enough I showed not that one but this one http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CGQTWjODmZw/T ... 2Bpram.jpg in my abnormal child psych class when I was giving a presentation on AS and NLD and asked people to put up their hand when they saw the triangle in the pram. I waited a full minute at least and only half the class got it and they got it slowly! I think I saw the triangle before I saw the pram!

A few hours ago my girlfriend and I went to Barnes and Noble. While browsing, I noticed the positions of the books.

Now, I can still remember the exact order of books I was interested in on which shelves.

I cannot for the life of me remember the route we took to get to the store, the faces of any other customers, how much the books cost whose prices I looked at, or how much the coffee I got cost.

We also went to a pet store (it's a quirk we share). I can recall each dog and cat I played with nearly perfectly. Which shelves had which types of cat toys and cat foods. But I have no idea where the store is, whether the person who owned the husky was a male or female, etc.

We then went to a gourmet grocery store. I can remember exactly how much per pound the Jamaican Blue Mountain is ($49.99), the prices of the other types of coffee, the location and brand of each coffee maker, and the exact kinds of curry sauces in which aisle. I do not remember its location, whether we talked to anyone, or details about the bakery supplies.

Yes, I can notice and remember those things which interest me, to a rather high degree. But I have little control over what I will find interesting, and no control over whether the details I archived would be at all useful to somebody else. This makes my memory a kind of crapshoot, in which I and anyone else will just have to hope I was in eidetic mode rather than passive mode.

I used to believe I had good memory for all those little things, then I realized my friends were using me instead of search engines for certain things. Once someone you know who's sitting at a computer tells you "Well yeah, I could, but it's faster to ask you so I don't have to tab" it's no longer a belief. To this day I insist that I'm not a walking version of google damn it, and they insist that yes, I am.