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Are remembering challenges more associated with: the four ADHDs, the many epilepsies, or with autism/ASD? Your view?

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Web definitions for remembering

memory: the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father"

wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn - Definition in context (Google)

I have memory problems that are highly related to autism.

http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/index.php?pageId=468

Note:

"Marked difficulties in {starting, stopping, executing, continuing, combining, switching} may impede {postures, actions, speech, thoughts, perceptions, emotions, memories}."

My memory is terrible if there is nothing there to trigger it. I can't just decide to remember something. But once it's triggered by something, it's actually better than normal. That's a very autistic pattern of difficulty.

ADHD causes particular difficulties with working memory (the part of your memory you use for handling immediate tasks) and short term memory.

I wrote a long post about my need for the right triggers to remember things or associate memories with each other from long term memory because I was trying to figure out some weirdness in my own memories (includng difficulty integrating childhood memories): http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt151907.html

I don't think every single thing I mentioned is specifically autistic, but a lot of it is groundwork for explaining memory access.

Wow - I didn't know that. That's the only way I can generally remember things, too. In fact, I can't remember specific years or ages when events happened - I have to backtrack based on what grade I was in or job where I worked.