Bobby's Amazing Memory

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Bobby's Amazing Memory
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Sun, 11-20-2005 - 9:38am

Bobby is always amazing me with is memory.

 


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Sun, 11-20-2005 - 12:26pm

Ooohhh, Tina!! Cute picture! Nathan has a great memory too, isn't it cool??!! It's worked in his favor this year at school. It's helped his reading, sight words, etc. Nathan is always bringing things up from the past, things that happened. He can even watch a movie, only ONE time, and remember certain things about it that no one else can!! I wish I had his great memory! lol

michelle

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Sun, 11-20-2005 - 4:47pm

When cait was around 1 1/2 she recieved a stuffed teddy from a co-worker of mine while at work. (Her daycare was in the same building). When Cait was I think 6-7 years old I was giving that teddy away to charity when Cait makes a comment about how she got that from my friend in the room near the hall (our office was on a hallway Cait loved to take off and run down. She was a huge runner). She was able to tell me a few more details as well.

However, later I tried asking her about it to show someone else, and she didn't remember then. Most likely she didn't understand what I was trying to describe because I didn't have the teddy there. But it is weird. She has this fabulous memory but the right things has to trigger it. Mike does too. They are able to tell me things from early in thier childhood that I don't remember but it is weird hearing it from thier perspective and how they interpreted it.

Actually there are loads of things about my kids brains that just amaze me to no end. They are interesting critters.

Renee

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Sun, 11-20-2005 - 6:22pm
I am SOOOO glad to see these posts! I always wondered about my son's memory. Mine is terrible and always was. However he can remember things that we don't discuss a year or so later and I am SHOCKED!
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Sun, 11-20-2005 - 8:31pm

Ya know when this good memory thing is the worst? When they briefly mention some item they want for christmas or their birthday like 6 months in advance and then don't mention again until the actual day. They remember telling you so they ASSUME you remember too. UGH. That one has caught me more than once.

ROFL

Renee

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Sun, 11-20-2005 - 9:43pm

LOL...we havent had that problem yet.

 


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Sun, 11-20-2005 - 10:30pm

Yeah, we have that problem too, alot.

I don't know if it is a problem with facial recognition (I have heard that can be common amung spectrum folks) or that they just don't care about people as much. I think it is a combination. With Mike, half the time he doesn't realize what is going on around him. But if he is actually introduced, was prepared and had some sort of meaningful interaction (ie, discussed legos or some movie) he will remember them. But sometimes even now he doesn't realize if someone is in his class. It is a matter of getting him to check in. Cait is a social aspie type but isn't good with names.

Cait can remember every pet she has ever met but rarely remembers the owner, lol. There was a big party at my mom's house in MA when we visited a few years ago before she moved. Lots of family, etc. Cait only remembered my cousin Linda who brought the dog. She didn't remember Linda's name but she remembered the dogs name, breed, age, birthday.... To get her to remember a person I have to use some other clues like thier pet, what color house they have, etc. Oh, and it took Cait and Mike FOREVER to learn all thier uncles names and we see them often.

My autistic nephew on the other hand never forgets a person. He knows the name of everyone he has ever met. It is totally spooky!

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Sun, 11-20-2005 - 10:38pm

It is so funny you should say that about Cait knowing the pets!!

 


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Mon, 11-21-2005 - 11:47am

Yeah, the memory thing can be amazing... Our town has a festival called the "Lilac Festival" each spring, and when Sylvia was 2 years old we told her we were going to a festival where there were "treats and flowers." She had a great time, mainly observing everything from her stroller, and having ice cream. Well, we didn't so much as mention the Lilac Festival for an entire year, but the following spring we told Sylvie that were were going to the Lilac Festival, and she said, "Treats and flowers!" !!! It can be dangerous, though -- when we got to the festival, the ice cream vendor wasn't there, and of course Sylvia remembered getting ice cream at that exact spot the previous year. Luckily there was a hot pretzel vendor there who provided an acceptable substitute! But seriously, we have to be very careful when we go special places not to do something that we won't be able to replicate, because she DOES remember and she WILL expect to do the exact same thing again! Another example: a museum in our town has a gingerbread house display every November - December: local organizations (girl scout troups, sunday schools, even families) can make gingerbread houses to display, and mid-December there's a silent auction of the houses to raise money for the museum. We took Sylvia last year to see the gingerbread houses and she LOVED them. In fact we went back twice, and she remembered exactly where all the different houses were, and she talked about those houses for months: "A house with a santa claus, and a house with a ladybug, and a doggie house..." So the gingerbread houses are back this year, but of course they will be all different houses! And while I know she'll still love to go, I have a feeling it's going to throw her a bit, because she'll be expecting to see all the exact same houses that she saw last year...

Jennifer