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My three and half year old son loves to play with different kinds of puzzles and maps. He is also an early reader.

A month ago, I had bought him five sets of different world continental map puzzle with three hundred some pcs in total. The puzzle pieces are shaped like individual countries. Being able to Read every country name, he had completed each puzzle without any help.

About two weeks after, he did the same thing again, but this time he used only the back side of each puzzle without looking at front side. There is nothing on the backside except different shape.

It seemed that he memorizes the shape and location of each country and also he understands the concept of opposite direction of mirror image.

Is this a type of eidetic memory?

Please share the story about your gifted kids' special memory skill.