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I've heard that children's memories are much more detailed and vivid prior to learning to write. Once written communication begins, we tend to rely more on writing down information (vs. solely on memory) and those incredible memories fade some.

However, that being said, my DS (5.11) continues to have a remarkable memory (despite developed written communication)
-His passion is for sports and scores (major games/his favorite teams, bowl games of past, etc. (this goes for football, basketball, soccer, baseball). It blows my mind the scores from years ago that he will accurately recall.
It was actually his amazing memory that led us to have him tested. (and he ended up being on the gifted spectrum).

add us in for the elephant memory - goodness, our DS8 remembers everything it seems! Also has the amazing ability to be doing something while someone is talking around him and look completely zoned out or not be paying attention when in all reality he is listening to every single thing and can you tell you all that was talked about a week later.

That is my dd7. In fact, I started a thread about it here.

http://giftedissues.davidsongifted....yone_else_have_a_child_wi.html#Post79029

She's still like that. And she remembers the exact word-for-word title of books, movies, shows, products at the store, authors names, parking space locations. It's effortless for her. I can't remember anything like that.

And amazingly,at least with DS, that zoning paying attention thing only works on conversations that are interesting or not for him, never happens when he has to do something, go somewhere or otherwise pay attention to the parent repeating his or herself for the 40000 time!!!

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I don't know if it means she has a "great" memory. If it's completely typical, then it's just normal for the age. That's why I asked. I've looked at Hoagies, and I don't find anything specific enough to answer my questions.