HAL9000
Lifer
- Oct 17, 2010
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Yep, mine aren't really just short term memory issues like yours I have a serious problem with my episodic memory. There's an L&R thread I made about it, feel free to have a read.
I have a long term memory of 6 days. After that I remember nothing from my personal life. No birthdays no christmas', funerals, weddings, deaths, births, holidays, no dates with my fiancee, nothing.
Now this is where it gets slightly complicated. I am able to learn very quickly, I can memorise facts, statistics very easily, and store them for a long time. As a result I can learn about my past, and now I know certain things that have happened, in my past. I know them, I don't remember being there, I know that last year I went to the Grand Canyon in the same way that I know the Battle of Hastings was in 1066. Fact. Not a visual or auditory or anything else memory, just as fact. It happened. I sometimes learn these facts at the time, such as: while at the grand canyon I stood on a rock that was leaning over a precipice. FACT. I don't remember being there or doing it, I just know it happened.
So that's one thing, the other thing is I cannot picture people in my head. No one, my parents; No, my Fiancee; No. People tell me to try and picture them in a situation but I can't as I can't remember any situations to picture them in.
The way I live with this is, I take photos, I write a diary, but it cannot make up for the fact that when I read the diary or look at the photos I have no recollection of being there.
I have a long term memory of 6 days. After that I remember nothing from my personal life. No birthdays no christmas', funerals, weddings, deaths, births, holidays, no dates with my fiancee, nothing.
Now this is where it gets slightly complicated. I am able to learn very quickly, I can memorise facts, statistics very easily, and store them for a long time. As a result I can learn about my past, and now I know certain things that have happened, in my past. I know them, I don't remember being there, I know that last year I went to the Grand Canyon in the same way that I know the Battle of Hastings was in 1066. Fact. Not a visual or auditory or anything else memory, just as fact. It happened. I sometimes learn these facts at the time, such as: while at the grand canyon I stood on a rock that was leaning over a precipice. FACT. I don't remember being there or doing it, I just know it happened.
So that's one thing, the other thing is I cannot picture people in my head. No one, my parents; No, my Fiancee; No. People tell me to try and picture them in a situation but I can't as I can't remember any situations to picture them in.
The way I live with this is, I take photos, I write a diary, but it cannot make up for the fact that when I read the diary or look at the photos I have no recollection of being there.
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