Asperger Syndrome Support Group

I'm not sure I'm all that aspy - or maybe I'm just a well trained aspy and symptoms are hidden.

I find that my sense of organization on a page is very keen. In college when I got into the Bible and God I was reading from a certain edition of the Bible. As verses became memorable I would know where they were on the page. I would remember the Bible book (Mathew, Mark, Luke, John) it was in, and the location of the text on the page (right or left side, middle of page, or up or down).

Other important things also get organized in some fashion so I know where to find them.

And sometimes I have or need a mental picture of something in order to head toward a goal.

I don't have it. Would be nice, though, to trollop through the woods along the train tracks reciting Farenheit 451 :)

I wouldn't know about everyone, its a very large spectrum, but my daughter can see a movie once and basically recite it verbatim, she remembers every comment ever made by anyone.

I've heard that most aspies tend to have very good memories and use it to compensate for poor reading skills and/or communication. I don't know about photographic or even eidetic memory being a "trait" of AS... just more common amoungst us.(altho the latter is more probable to be accurate).
I know that my ability to memeorize lessons in school was very helpful... virtually NO homework for this kid. Reviewing material a coupla' hours before a test would be all that was needed to ace a test. But when it comes to movie lines and bible verses I just plain suck.

There was really nothing to compare the way my memory worked when I was younger. Now there is: Search Engines. I did'nt have a photographic/eidactic memory so much as I had a good search engine. So to continue the allegory...as I've gotten older there are more inactive "websites" so the "index" will contain a reference to something that is not active. Also there's the A/S "glitch" of the "search engine" cross referencing multiple category searches....the links we have to the sudden, seemingly irrelevent spontaneous topics...they're there...the links are just different.
Eidactic and Photographic refer to a visual recall...in my case I think it was more conceptual or context related...my recall and reproductions of visual images have always been impressionistic or abstract...but even visual images I can reproduce/copy based on image composition or visual reference/scale/relationship/composition seems to me to be conceptual-related as well.

I believe it can be found frequuently in nearly every form within the Autism spectrum...

and Aspies probably very commonly due to the average to very high IQ, likely connected or simular to other mind feats like ESP etc. which are also found with some of us

I have something sort of like it its very eerie sometimes

Walt

I have aspies and my memory has always been very poor, I have average intelligence

Before I was in a coma, I had a photographic memory. I remembered everything down to the exact place a person was standing, movements and statements that were together or separate.

I still have some of this although not like before the coma.

I think in pictures, movie form and concepts rather than words.

I can remember things like a moive and I prefer to be able to maintain this style of memory so I know if something is true.

Excellent rote memory is a trait of Asperger's, and is something that all people with AS exhibit (according to the research); but photographic memory is not something all Aspies exhibit. That's not to say that someone with AS COULDN'T have a photographic memory, of course.

Personally, I think there may be some link between the AS gene and whatever can cause a photographic memory, because:

My son has AS, and my husband and I both agree that my father-in-law is a non-diagnosed Aspie (so it seems that the AS gene come from that side of the family), and my husband's sister has a photographic memory.

Eidetic memory is the correct term. There is no such thing as photographic memory. Some people on the autism spectrum have eidetic memory and some do not. This also applies to the general population.