Memory

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There is also the theory that you actually remember absolutely everything that has ever happened to you, you just cannot ordinarily access those memories. Not sure how that fits in. At times I think an eidetic memory would be awesome - but at other times, I'm glad that so much of my history has blacked out.

Those of us affected with Asperger's Syndrome have memories that can be quite extensive indeed. To quote the great Tony Attwood, who has more than 40 years experience dealing with Autism, in his book "The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome,":

"The child's encyclopedic knowledge can become quite remarkable and he or she is perceived as a 'little professor' eager to read about the interest, ask adults questions related to the interest and instruct peers about the interest in a manner more resembling a teacher that a peer."

It is a well-known fact that Savants have even greater memories than Aspies. Unfortunately, Non-verbal Autistics lack the verbal skills necessary to express themselves to display their memory capacities so we'll never know for sure for that group. Perhaps with writing they could, but high aggression factors usually interfere with any display of memory capacity they might possibly have.

Two groups out of three for Autistics who have high memory capacity would seem to tip the scales in favour of saying that on the whole, Autistics do have greater memory capacities than Neuro-Typicals (NTs).

I would say it's safe to say that based on empirical evidence. Any singular person saying they have low memory capacity are most likely just anomalies in the aforementioned groups.

In intelligent discussion, it's best to look on the whole than the anomalous one for broad-based reasoning.

One of the things autism does is create many more nueral connections in the brain, so if we have the memories in there, and (for the sake of example) if we can't remember them than the path is 'blocked' then autists have more paths and a higher chance of being able to remember.

Just a random thought.

My memory is very good but it requires triggers to recall. When one shows up the memories come back to me as vividly as photos or movies.

There are also things I remember better or worse.
I tend to scan my environment all the time therefore I am very good at recalling things, places and events - I am always paying attention to what I see and it just sinks in. I am much worse with what other people are doing or saying - I focus more on things than humans. I also seem to have prosopagnosia but it could be because I just don't find human faces interesting enough to remember.