Bad short term memory

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I am also the same! I have an excellent long term memory, but my short term memory is definitely lacking.

On that site I got 45%, but my short-term memory is a disaster.

I forget a lot a things short term too. I usually remember by the end of the day.

Thanks for that memory test link. i scored 14.5%

i think, like, i totally suck dudes

I got a crap short term memory, I forget stuff like my PE kit a lot (which my mum thinks can be fixed by punishing me ) but if I can get something into my long term memory I will almost certainly remember it, especially if I associate it with a picture in my head.

It's why I haven't joined the Chess Club in my school yet. I usually remember the morning it's on, but forget just minutes and while it's on.

Oh geez this is me. I know when learning a new job I could not retain more then one or two types of instruction. Then there were times if I didn't perform the task on a regular basis I felt like I could not trust my memory to get me through the task.
Even at drivethroughs if there are more then a few things to order my husband will usually do it, because I have to keep asking him what was the rest of the order.
It can be rather embarassing and I always felt like an idiot on the job.

I'm also a list maker. The problem is, I am not organized about where I write stuff down, then I forget where I put it. I have a fantastic long term memory---I can remember back to when I was a toddler in a crib.

My poor short term memory is a frustration. Is it due to Asperger's, or is it due to the anxiety and depression that can accompany it? I don't know for sure if I do have Asperger's, but I do know that I have generalized anxiety and depression. Once the worst symptoms were under control, my memory got better. It's only bad now, not terrible.

Oh man, 19.5! Pathetic but no surprise

yes. very poor short term memory. memory for details - excellent.
if someone tells me i need to do something that afternoon i will likely forget, but if i am looking at the floorboard grooves as they are speaking , i will remember every bit of them.....i have a brain for mindless and utterly beautiful visual detail.

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36.7 however, I did a lot of random clicking, and didnt click on what I intended to because of inaccurate hand eye coordination.... but even with porr hand eye coordination, I am still a decent artist.

Score 19.35. I don't like that game. Such pretty patterns, and the ones that are most attractive stick in my mind so those are the ones I'm most likely to remember, so they get taken off the board first. Crumb. If I play it again I'll be trying to not match the squares - just enjoy the patterns.

I've always had a terrible short-term memory. Makes it difficult to learn how to cook better. I keep a supply of little post-it notes around all the time and stick them everywhere. When I worked in a law office I would stick them to the sleeve of my blazer so I'd see them when I answered the phone.

What was the question again?

I have a really terrible short term memory like when I need to copy an eight figure phone number down I need to glance at the phone book about three or four times before I can right it down. My long term memory is pretty good and makes up for it.

I scored just 14.4 on that test so my short term memory sucks big time.

I got a 24.657 on that. It might be a good basis for a research study/experiment. Get a group of AS and a group of NT to play the game and do the t-test?

I do also have short term memory issues. I can't remember what I ate last night for dinner. I always forget to do things like pay a bill. Sometimes, I think I paid a bill when I didn't, which is even worse. Once I went into Walmart, and I asked the pharmacist what the name of the pill was that helps improve your memory because I can't remember the name of it. He was like, you really need it...it's called Gingkogin. It didn't do much on the improvement by the way.

My longterm memory is awesome. I still can remember a lot of math. Pythagorean theorum came in handy to remember, especially when taking the ASVAB, but things like finding the third derivative of an equation hasn't been a necessity, but fun to do while drunk. I also remember a lot more from my childhood than my younger sister who has selective memory (as she doesn't remember anything accurate). But I do remember the day she was born, and I was 2 and a half at the time.

Yeah, I tell people, sorry I forgot that, but you know in about 10 years I'll remember. I just never associated it to AS.

Yep, it's called executive dysfunction.

The most modern part of your brain (the frontal cortex/cortices) that monitors/guides our thinking and behaviour.
It's the dysfunction that DEFINES ASD's.
Diminished timeline functioning means that we tend to live in the moment rather than having a higher overview of the immediate past/future as it relates to our short (and longer)-term goal/s.

Executive dysfunction means we are less able to moderate our emotions - so they tend to have a more immediate/direct bearing on our behaviours.

The human brain comes in three layers.
1) - Reptilian (physically small part of the brain): primitive drivers like fear, sex and hunger

2) - Mammalian : more developed drivers - caring, parental, protective, nurturing.

3) - Human (primate - the frontal cortex - largest and most complex part of the brain) : higher drivers - morality, justice, abstract thought.
Here is where executive functionality resides.
Many regions of this part show reduced metabolism/activity in ASDers.