Insight: Sept 24
Kumi Taguchi hears from a woman whose first memory, remarkably, is being in her mother's womb -one of fewer than 100 people diagnosed with highly superior autobiographical memory.
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This week on Insight, host Kumi Taguchi moderates a forum asking ‘How do memories define us? And can we always trust them?’
Rebecca’s first memory is being in her mother’s womb. She’s one of fewer than 100 people in the world diagnosed with highly superior autobiographical memory (H-SAM).
Before receiving her formal diagnosis, Rebecca Sharrock put her ability to recall precise details from nearly every day of her life down to just having an ‘unusual’ memory.
Rebecca, 34, is the only known person in Australia with highly superior autobiographical memory (H-SAM). Worldwide, fewer than 100 people have the condition and like Rebecca, most of them can accurately describe what they were doing on almost any given date.
When she’s asked: ‘What’s it like to live with a super memory?’, her answer is always the same: “I’ve never known life any differently.”
8:30pm Tuesday on SBS.
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