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08 Jan 2009, 6:06 pm

That's it really, that's all I wanted to say... :)


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08 Jan 2009, 6:26 pm

I saw a documentary about an autistic artist that could look at complex landscape, for a minute or so, then replicate it exactly without looking at it again. 8) It was awesome. I wish I had those powers too.


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09 Jan 2009, 12:10 pm

Same here, although I would be happy with just a very good memory for facts I had read or heard so that I could have a large general knowledge. A lot of people say I do have a large general knowledge; that may be true, but I'd love to know detailed facts and be able to reel them off when pople need them :)


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09 Jan 2009, 12:27 pm

Closest I can suggest is to get some MRI scans done. However, it would not be photographic memory so much as photographs or your memory :D


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09 Jan 2009, 10:51 pm

What happened to the first board about this?
Eh, I'll answer again!

I think that it would be great for studying and happy memories, but the nightmares and bad memories would make it hard to deal with.



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11 Jan 2009, 9:23 am

jawbrodt wrote:
I saw a documentary about an autistic artist that could look at complex landscape, for a minute or so, then replicate it exactly without looking at it again. 8) It was awesome. I wish I had those powers too.


I saw that, too, or I think we saw the same one anyway... He done a flight in a helicopter over London then painted the whole thing from memory on a huge canvas, didn't he? Was damn cool!