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[quote=Anonymous]I have a very poor memory for faces (I actually have face-blindness) but used to have an excellent memory of where I saw anything and details of anything I read.  My memory has gone downhill a lot with perimenopause.

Upside, I always did well on tests without a lot of trying -- especially tests where there is a pool of multiple choice questions the test is picked from.  For example if I read through all 700 possible questions I would remember most of them when it came time to take the 20 or so in the actual test.  When we took standardized tests every year that had overlapping windows of questions year-to-year, I would remember the questions from the previous year even though I'd seen them only that one time.

For me to remember things, the thing has to be meaningful in some way -- not just lists of names, but details tied to a story or something that gives a more complete picture.  So memorizing the presidents wasn't any easier for me than for anyone else with slightly above average intelligence, but I remember the book on Taft I randomly picked up in HS.

Unfortunately, I'm given to rumination and can feel upset over poor decisions or events even decades later.

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