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I too have a near photographic memory, and although I can feel it slightly decreasing with age, I experience all of the things you mention above. One other downside I have had is that it can be enormously frustrating when you can remember conversations perfectly - word for word, exact tones, even the time, day, weather, clothing during the conversation, and you deal with people who say “I never said that” It’s like actually, you bloody well did and I remember it exactly. Then if I tell them I have perfect recall, and then say the conversation exactly, you said “x” and I said “y” and you said “z” like that - a verbatim reproduction of the conversation - suddenly Im the bad guy - nobody ever says sorry, they just argue more or debate interpretation. I’ve been reading Cicros books and that has helped me with delivery and better social integration But I do feel a definite pang of frustration and a burst of anger when people even forget that I have perfect recall! Ok rant over One positive of my memory has been remembering source code, I seem to have an easier job reading an entire codebase and keeping all the classes, interfaces and data structures in my working memory, so I seem to have a much faster ability to get started, and also I seem to be able to handle large refractors easier than other programmers - am I am enormously grateful for this gift, and know it’s largely luck that I have it and I try and help other programmers as much as I can - I’ll offer to do the large refractors or hunt down those weird, difficult bugs. So yeah, like the poster above says, blessing and curse |