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25 Oct 2012, 3:59 am

That one I found interesting

http://gad.about.com/od/symptoms/a/memory.htm

any additions like for example scientific papers relating working memory topics to autism?



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25 Oct 2012, 6:36 am

Wow very interesting!



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25 Oct 2012, 8:31 am

It explain a lot, thank you the share.



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25 Oct 2012, 8:44 am

rixxar12 wrote:
It explain a lot, thank you the share.


Yeah of course. that's why I put it here. This is pretty close to how I sometimes feel.
And quite near to the mistakes I'd make and symptoms I'd show.

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Wow very interesting!


Thanks also for that comment.
I have read something about working memory
and I thought from the beginning that would fit for example also stress,
sensory overloads and anxiety.
Found this by googling "anxiety working memory"



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25 Oct 2012, 9:00 am

There are lots of studies out there on the effects of glucocorticoids and stress on memory and the hippocampus. I think much more research needs to be done, though, because I have suffered from severe OCD/anxiety my whole life and I have a photographic memory. Some aspects of my working memory are poor (mostly with numbers, quickly switching tasks, and having to remember information auditorily), but I see no correlation with anxiety in my case. Rather, it's just executive functioning deficits/NVLD.


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25 Oct 2012, 9:55 am

OddDuckNash99 wrote:
There are lots of studies out there on the effects of glucocorticoids and stress on memory and the hippocampus. I think much more research needs to be done, though, because I have suffered from severe OCD/anxiety my whole life and I have a photographic memory. Some aspects of my working memory are poor (mostly with numbers, quickly switching tasks, and having to remember information auditorily), but I see no correlation with anxiety in my case. Rather, it's just executive functioning deficits/NVLD.


Yeah I think that, too, that there are shortcomings of memory generally.
And I'd see this as a reason that many aspies would easily suffer from anxiety.

That sort of "Memory full: Help!" symptoms. Maybe it is also the control of the memory that is impaired with aspies.
(If you'd be trying to insert more although there is no space)