Posted on 11/08/2017 7:44:55 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
---SNIP--- Considering most people’s earliest memories don’t start until around the age of four, it would be easy to assume that Sharrock’s description was a nostalgic daydream, rather than a real memory. But then again, the 27-year-old from Brisbane, Australia doesn’t have a memory like most people – she has been diagnosed with a rare syndrome called ‘Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory’, or HSAM, also known as hyperthymesia. This unique neurological condition means that Sharrock can recall every single thing she did on any given date.
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Marilu Henner is said to be one of these people.
Which is amazing as she comes across as such
an immature ditz.
Actress Marilu Henner can remember everything.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4698422661001/?#sp=show-clips
Marilou Henner (redhead from Taxi) has this.
Clinton has Ahyperthymesia.
That’s nothing!
I know a woman who remembers things that NEVER happened!.............
I can’t remember the Alamo.
I wonder how many people can remember the movie your FR name came from without looking it up? Pretty cool.
His was so bad that he couldn't recognize a person if they changed clothes or had a different look on their face.
I remember minuscule things, like page numbers where ads are located from years before, and part numbers from ancient companies. I left one sales job and they didn't worry about me printing off a list of contacts. I memorized the people, their phone numbers and addresses of every single regular contact that I worked with; they knew it and expected that I had enough integrity not to walk off with customers not my own.
The human brain is an amazing thing. Some people seem to have more interconnections (?) and can connect things that most of us can't find with a search engine.
I remember when I was little bitty, about a year old, sitting in a high chair eating brunch in the doorway to the living room at my grandparents. It was brunch because my grandpa would bring me into the kitchen with him while he ate breakfast before going out to do the farm chores. Later in the morning, my grandmother would tie me in the high chair in the hallway and let me eat and watch the tv in the living room while she did her household chores. The living room was carpeted but the hall had linoleum. Truth or Consequences and What’s My Line were on. I didn’t like Truth or Consequences because of the consequences.
It’s amazing some people can’t remember elementary school.
“Sharrock’s parents explained that it wasn’t normal and they thought she might share the same condition.”
Or maybe she’s the normal one, and the rest of us are deficient.
Or, at least maybe her ability to remember is a trait we’ve lost.
Widespread literacy allows our brains to offload information which is accessible by reading later when we need it.
As a simple example of this, I can still remember my childhood phone number and those of a couple of my then close friends, but today I can not remember even close family members’ phone numbers because I never have to dial them. They’re in my cell phone contacts.
I remember my first birthday sitting in a high chair with a hot cross bun and one candle.
And being 1 yr 8 months being pushed in a baby carriage with my new born sister.
I wish I could forget stuff, but at least I don’t remember everything, THANK GOD!
Who's to contradict her? Sure, on May 12, 1975, a Monday, I was listening to Mr. D, the science teacher, explain genetic traits. I was sitting behind icky V and in front of bf B. S, with his wild hair, was two rows over to the right. The E. kid was sitting behind and to the left. Uppitty ML was wearing a purple and white drill team outfit and I was wearing a yellow and white dress. The sun was shining and I was looking out into the courtyard and day dreaming. See, that was easy and no one can say it didn't happen.
Any more, I’m grateful to remember ANYTHING that happened less than ten years ago.
It has apparently been checked/verified in several interviews.
I would hate that. But I still think Marilou henner’s Situation is weirder. Never forgets a date?
Most likely she is like my wife who thinks she remembers things correctly, and claims you are the one that can’t remember what transpired. I learned long ago, you can either be happy or you can be right, but you can’t be both. 8>)
I have a distant memory of being carried from a time when I was only one or two (I think) so it is a little memory snippet, but as I get older, it seems less and less real.
It is an odd sensation.
I can’t remember your name 10 seconds after you tell it to me. Even if you tell me 3 times in the first meeting I’ll probably forget it as you walk away.
But I remember nearly every song and artist/group having a hit song from the mid 50’s to the mid 70’s (and a few into the 80’s) along with the record label it was released on. And usually can tell you the year - if not exactly - usually no more than one year off.
Of course, that stuff is fascinating to me, so I’m always listening and reading and learning so it sticks with me. Your name? I probably won’t ever meet you again and my brain knows it. Poof! It’s gone. If we become friends or regular acquaintances I will eventually learn. I am more likely to remember the car you drive or your pet’s name than yours though, LOL.
There are mentats among us?
I can remember Union all and case statements, it is those dang window functions I have to look up every time. Partition by, over, order by. Never can remember that syntax.
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