Remembering In Chronological Order.

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Emor
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24 May 2009, 7:03 am

Does anyone else have a problem remembering things in chronological order?
It's hard for me to decide whether an event that happened a month ago happened a month ago or 6 months ago. Sometimes I'll be able to work it out with something like, 'Oh, well, I didn't have <product> 7 months ago, so I guess that means it was around 2 months to 6 months ago...' or something like that(I can remember things like products and stuff in dates), but that's basically it and I can't always do that.
Sorry if this is something everyone does.
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24 May 2009, 7:41 am

I've always had the same problem. I have a terrible time remembering people's birthdays. My co-worker had his 51st birthday last month... I had no idea a year had gone by already since his last birthday.

With a lot of big events... I can never remember the exact date that they happen unless I write it down somewhere.

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24 May 2009, 7:41 am

Emor wrote:

Actually, I always seem to remember things in chronological order... to the point that when I tell a story, I tell it chronologically rather than in order of importance. It's been pointed out to me that this is perhaps not the best way to recount stories.

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24 May 2009, 8:18 am

intravenus_de_milo wrote:

I actually have a keen memory for dates. I can tell you all of my family's birthdays, for instance. I just have a really hard time correlating the current date to those dates, so I "forget" a lot of family birthdays.

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24 May 2009, 8:22 am

I don't have this problem. I've always visualized dates and events, and this is how I remember things.

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24 May 2009, 8:35 am

Nope, as a general matter, I've got very clear, distinct and correct recall of sequences of events --to the point that I'm easily infuriated by the inaccurate recollections of others (I don't tend to get too agitated when debating matters of opinion; when somebody's got the facts wrong, I'm prone to flying off the handle).

Where I do tend to struggle is in the now, in particular with respect to remembering what damn day of the week it is lol

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24 May 2009, 10:22 am

Emor wrote:

^^ I believe I certainly have possess difficulty with this. However, to assist me, I have previously set the date of a happy event event within my head, and may often judge roughly when another happy event occurred. ^^ Alas, I believe many happy occasions my memories appear very happy and blurry.

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24 May 2009, 10:55 am

Interesting... I have no problems with dates, however. Well, I can't remember my family's birthdays but I can remember the dates of all the Apple conferences, E3 conferences, game console release dates, etc. I do suck with birthdays though... they just don't interest me.
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24 May 2009, 12:32 pm

This type of memory consolidation has to do with the hippocampus, which has been implicated in autism.

It's interesting that there can be so many variations in function. We don't really know how this structure works as a whole... and it's one of the more well-documented brain structures!

There's an interesting utube video out there of some guy with "hippocampal damage" and he has trouble with tasks containing multiple steps in it... Like, if something goes wrong with step 3... he's completely lost on what to do for steps 4,5 ect... or just gets it wrong all the time... does the steps out of order ect.

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