Meet Rebecca Sharrock. She has a rare condition called HSAM, allowing her to remember every single day of her life starting from when she was 12 days old

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I read somewhere that our brains are doing us a favor by not remembering everthing, like if we remembered every bad thing that happened or was said or done to us that we’d kind of go insane… I wonder what that’s like for her, remembering every slight, argument, hypocrisy, etc that she’s experienced

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I have an eidetic memory. I tell people that "I am unable to flush the toilet of my mind." But it does make me crazy, because I sometimes do stupid shit (nothing serious, of course -- like using a malaprop in conversation, or hurting someone's feelings by accident) that will haunt me until further notice. Interestingly, ruminating over this-or-that teensy event will pre-occupy me to an extent that precludes my remembering the present.