• merc@sh.itjust.works
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      I once read a news article about a woman who had Eidetic memory (a.k.a. photographic memory). It made her life shitty. She was never “in the moment”, because everything triggered a memory. She could never forgive anybody for their past slights, because they were always fresh in her memory. It wasn’t the ability to recall anything you wanted whenever you wanted to. Instead it was the condition where you constantly had detailed memories flooding in when something you saw, smelled, heard, tasted, felt, etc. triggered a memory, or a dozen memories.

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        That is my “great” memory. Everyone comments on how good my memory is but I feel those hardcore moments like they just happened.

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      Your memory is so bad that you need a binder full of photos just to find your way home from work each night. You can only remember things through photographs.