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Is it an aspie thing when a person cannot control what memories leak in and out of their own mind? Just like any other of my senses my memories tend to jumble together and i sometimes cannot filter them out in my head. I tend to go into a meltdown mode and I have to concentrate on a song or vocalize my reactions to those memories to make them go away. Has any of this happened to you guys? Am I going insane?

i kinda have a similar experiance, i will be just doing something totall y unrelated to the memory and for no reason i will get a flashback of some random memory.

i dont understand it and its doesnt really bother me because most of the memories are stupid insignificant things but some of them have been really disturbing things i have blocked out.

i dont know what causes it.

and no you are not insane or alone.

This happens to me too sometimes. I could be doing a task at work or just relaxing at home and all of a sudden I'll remember some really vivid bad memory, such as something bad that happened to me as a kid or feeling guilty about something I did or said several years ago, and those thoughts have absolutely nothing to do with what I'm doing and I have no reason to otherwise be thinking about them. It can get bothersome at times.

I've always wondered if this was an autistic thing myself, since I don't personally know anyone IRL who does this. And no, you are not going insane, by any means. This may simply just be the way our brains are wired.

I have a lot of trouble with this, too. It's a nuisance for me because all of the memories that come back are horrible traumatic ones, something I need to work on blocking out. Anyone have any tips for this?

Look for whats triggering them. Could it be seeing a yellow towel? being in the same spot you previously had a traumatic flashback. thinking of a song that you sang as a child

Once you know whats triggering them, they will be much easier to avoid.

I definitely can't control my memory or when memories come back to me. I honestly can't imagine how NTs do either, if they even can, but the amount of times I've been told to forget about something and move on, it sure seems like they can sometimes. I don't have meltdowns or anything when an unpleasant memory comes back. I might shudder and feel angry or insecure for a minute, but that will be it. I do have nightmares, sometimes. Most of how I react to unpleasant memories is to vent or channel them into productive endeavors like art.

I start talking or muttering something random, or singing out loud to myself, if I'm by myself.

I have slightly trouble if it happens when I'm around other people though. Then I have to think of something coherent to say.