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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
When I was in school I took child psych for four weeks. The only However, the skill impedes reading development, because you need to "clear" each letter or word from your memory as you comprehend it, or the pictures all start to overlap. Very few people retain photographic memory skill after learning to read; those who do call it more of a curse than a blessing, because a true photographic memory means you're not able to let bad memories go or fade, ever, as most of us do.
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ETA: Apparently, calling it "photographic memory" is discouraged. The preferred term is "eidetic imagery." A college paper on eidetic imagery, which reports the incidence between 2% and 15% of elementary age children.
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I've never heard of those figures before, but that is interesting. As you describe it, I had "eidetic imagery" while I was in grade school. It helped me on tests, because I would study and then be able to recall a picture of the page in my mind. However, that skill seems to have long faded, without me really noticing -- until I now merely have a good memory for detail (but a bad memory for names).
S_A_M
P.S. No imaginary friends, but my sister did while she was in the low to mid single digits -- "Sheekelshosh" and "Frilly Franzy" -- I was nver interested enough to determine species or gender.
