My aspie son's memory is so phenomenal that he clearly remembers things that happened to him as an infant under six months old. I think his earliest confirmable memory is between three and four months. Sometimes when he "zones out" what's actually happening is that he's walking around in his memory reliving it. Then he jerks back to reality and is a bit bewildered for a moment. This is getting less the case as he gets older (he's fifteen now) but his recall is just astonishing.

My memory is like the audio track on a dvd, I remember words, sounds, and music. Language feels like it has shape to me, or gears behind it, clicking into place. This might be why I'm good at languages... or perhaps it's the other way round, and language feels this way because I had early exposure to more than one language.

Whatever the cause, my memory's a source of confusion to me. At times it's very good, at others less than trustworthy, since my mental illness causes me to (sometimes) remember fears, daydreams, etc, as real memory. I was diagnosed autistic as a child, schizoaffective as an adult. My pdoc told me that I still have characteristics of asperger's syndrome, which complicate my other diagnoses.

Still... I manage. My son does too. I think the way our memory works is fascinating.