https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobiographical_memory#Memory_disorder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobiographical_memory#Memory... Severely Deficient Autobi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobiographical_memory#Memory_disorder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobiographical_memory#Memory... Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory (SDAM) is that name for the condition. Interviews I've read with exemplars who've been the means for researchers discovering that it exists (I think some are in the article's references?) puts them about one notch worse than I am, but most of what they describe rings extremely true. In particular, remembering that things happened but having very little of what I gather are ordinary memories of the events, not having an idea of where those events fit into any kind of chronology without painstakingly working through some kind of dependency reasoning like "well we got X there and we had that at time Y so it must have been before that..." I'll be like that for stuff that happened last year, or ten years ago, but also last month, or even last week. Ask me when some notable thing I recently did happened and I'm likely not to be able to place it more precisely than "I think it was this quarter, at least? Maybe?" but even that I get wrong pretty often ("um, no, that was Spring of last year") Like I don't get that stuff wrong 100% of the time, but it's definitely most of the time. Maybe 80%, and often comically wrong. As described by those interviewees, this has surprisingly little effect on, say, work or school life. I remember facts and processes and such just fine. Maybe better than most, even.