Can memory be an AS issue?

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I know that Aspies can have an excellent, if not eidetic, biographic memory. It's not my case at all. Except for the mistakes I've made (that come back often, as if I had not suffered enough when I did them!), I don't remember much of the things I'd like to remember... I have a good memory for places. A quasi inexistant memory for faces, and names, which is very annoying for me, and kind of irritating for others I think. Just today I think there was someone I knew from last year in the tramway, but I couldn't remember his name and I wasn't even sure it was really him. I'm bad with dates and numbers, telephone numbers and birthdays, also. I've always had great problems with learning things by rote. Learning multiplication tables, english or ancient greek irregular verbs, for example, has been - and is still, to a certain extent - difficult for me.
It is much better with my special interests. I have a very good musical memory for example. And I don't get lost very often, thanks to my geographic-place memory. But on the whole I've a strange and unusual memory. Moreover I think that my brain likes better processing information than keeping it. I fell like I've utterly lost my day when I've learnt nothing, but it doesn't disturb me that much when I discover later than I don't remember everything that I'd learnt...
So let's say : a kind of excentric selective memory, oscillating between nearly photographic in some areas and nearly zero in others...

Memory is one of the areas i've reconsidered since my diagnosis and i've decided i have a very good memory, but due to my overly focused attention, i forget things simply becuase 100% of my attention is focused elsewhere. So memory issues are a symptom of another issue.

my memory is very good like 4 things i can't get tested on academically such as rememberin every time i have been hugged in my life or i ate a jaket potato saturday august 16th 2008. But as far as tests and that go i get average grades mainly, its a shame i can't trigger my memory to remember certain things. And i don't know if anyone else gets this, but i get terrible flashbacks of bad memories alot..feedback would be nice.
Thanks x

I might have a poor short term memory, but an excellent long term memory (I don't know the English term exactly). I have no AS, but PDD/NOS instead (with - according to me - AS traits, tohg). Maybe my slow mental processing makes my short term memory poorer than an average NT short term memory.

I cannot only remember things very well, but also a huge amount of things. A good example is a great collection of Beatles songs (melody and chords). This is all in my head. I once went to a library and borrowed a book with a lot of Beatles songs, and I tried to remember as many songs as I mentally was capable off. That was years and years ago. I still know a fair part of that book.