Autistics and Poor Memory

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I have a bad short term memory and am a scatterbrain. People are always remembering stuff I wrote, that I forgot all about.

Basically the same as most other posters. I have a pretty good long-term memory and people are sometimes amazed at specific details or occurrences I can remember from years ago. However, I'm constantly losing/forgetting things.

My working memory is way below average. I was rather amazed at how poorly I scored on the Wechsler memory scale.

I'm the same as most others who've commented. Pretty good long-term memory. I remember details others have long forgotten. Not so great short-term memory.

I can remember certain life events that happened when I was very young and can remember dialogue from books and TV and I even memorized the Jabberwocky poem and all of its strange words. But I can be like an absent-minded professor and forget simple things like adding a cup of laundry detergent to my washing machine. I've always been really bad at remembering people's names, and I think it's getting worse, maybe because I'm in my 40's now. You turn 40 and then suddenly everything wrong with you is supposedly because of that age.