recall the day of the week, usually what the weather was like on that day, personal details of her life at that time, and major news events that occurred . . .<\/p>\n
[She] remembers trivial details as clearly as major events. Asked what happened on Aug 16, 1977, she knew that Elvis Presley had died, but she also knew that a California tax initiative passed on June 6 of the following year, and a plane crashed in Chicago on May 25 of the next year, and so forth. Some may have had a personal meaning for her, but some did not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
She’s not an idiot savant. She’s a “fully functioning person.”<\/p>\n
Now–isn’t this typical!–she’s been kidnapped by scientists and is being held in a lab where they’re preparing to run a series of MRIs . . . ha ha ha, just kidding about the kidnapping part. She’s volunteered to be studied. We guess.<\/p>\n
(I wonder if her mother ate a lot of eggs.)<\/p>\n
Hyperthymestic syndrome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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