I Need Help With Something... Please Tell Me If This Is True of You 2

[bigjon]

CAL4M1TY said:
Okay this is really off topic, but you've got a really wrong idea of what photographic memory is in your head.

Photographic memory is where what your eyes are seeing at a given moment freezes in your mind (so you still see that same image) despite your eyes looking elsewhere (so the thing you're looking at doesn't replace what you just saw), it's not something that can be controlled and therefore involuntary and it's not like you're actually remembering the visual image (in the traditional sense, like how you say people remember where they were when 9/11 happened) it's that it's stuck as your sight for an X amount of time. That's not the best description and I'm not sure if it's entirely accurate, but it's definitely not what you thought it was.

I can't give you much help for your the rest of your post though, except for some respect for posting something like this on the internet (where all the assholes in the world meet). But, just because you can't remember a particular memory, doesn't necessarily mean it was traumatic, it could be less significant, irrelevant or maybe just your imagination.

I said I know it is not photographic. Also, most of the memories I remember from VERY young, are associated with some emotion. Fear is very common among children (dark, strangers, being alone, etc) so alot of them are "momemts" when I was afraid. Another common one is when I "discovered" something.