We are gifted person (i am not sure of the translation), so it is not a HSP thing, but as HSP we have a better memory than the average.

I do remember way more than my family of events from the past, I thought it was feelings related but I am not sure.

At school, I was learning my poems/poetries in an hour, same for piece of theatre or history.
It was really pissing off my friends !


In a lot of ways we are much smarter than the average, but I know there are things I will never be able to do because I don't have the capacity (the brain is limited and you can't be good at everything).


It is a gift and a curse because people don't understand simple things (obvious for me), and it creates trouble to communicate with people.
Moreover, I am only interested in subjects which matter and I have a lot of difficulties to communicate (speaking or writing).

One side of our brain is being more used than the average people (After an intense day of focusing I can feel it),

It is unfair for us, we often speak about feelings but we forget this.
Thank you for bringing up this topic !

I also have a very good memory. I think it is different though from intelligence. It is hard to know if our memory is truly accurate all the time.

It would be interesting to find out more about memory and what it is it's cause, and about the varying degrees.
julchr, maybe being all around sensitive makes all our senses more active, awake.
Also more about long term memories vs short term would be interesting-long term seems to be easier to recall, studies have shown, and my elderly grandparent did too by that recalling things from their childhood but nothing from recently, or that often if asked what we had for dinner we draw a blank, I did a class experiment on that "what did you have for dinner" years ago, in science RE memory.


My mother says I've had a good memory for years since I was young, I am asked by my mother often- do I know who this person is in this photograph or do you recall what I wore to this event in 1979?

I remember now the class project explaining long term was "stored", short term not yet, or something like that.
I have recalled things that other family thought no way could I remember that, was not old that from age 3

was not *told* that

I tend to be quite forgetful. I'm pretty absent-minded and spacey sometimes. On the other hand, I remember stuff starting from age 2. I remember swimming in the YMCA with my mom and the Song "YMCA" by the village people was playing. It was 1979.
My fiance remembers stuff from films that we watch that I don't remember. But then I remember stuff that he doesn't remember.

Then again, I have been playing these geography-map games that I am absolutely addicted to! I have memorized every country in nearly every part of the world--except for Central America and Australia. It is tough and cumbersome to remember all those tiny islands!

Meant to say Oceania, not Australia!

Completely true, maybe it would explain why I have so much difficulty to start focusing, and sometimes I can't focus on something if it is not important.
Once I am focus, I am in my world, I don't hear anyone around me, it could be the end of the world I would not see it. It is then very exhausting. When I do that, I am really tired at the end of the day.

My fiance is like you, nor. He hyper focuses to the point of exhaustion. I think I hyper focus as well, but sometimes on useless things like obsessive thoughts. I would like to channel this hyperfocus into my art work. That way, I could get things accomplished and feel good about it!

It is hard to focus on art work, because it has to be feelings and thoughts more than thinking.
We learn to think, not to feel. Learn to feel and dream and you will focus on your art work easily.

Glad I'm not the only one.

I can remember certain things from long ago, small snippets of my life. Some years I can't remember much at all but Of what I do remember it is quite clear. Colors, patterns of material of curtains or chairs, what I'm wearing, items hanging on the wall, wall paper pattern, rooms, where furniture is located, sights and sounds. Smells. People who were there.
It's interesting what our brains are capable of remembering or recalling things from long ago.

i remember things when i was about 2 years old. I remember my mom carrying me with this tantrums.. she woke me up for a photo.. I could still remember how i was in my mom's arms being carried to this grandma's garden.. that was i think my earliest memory that i can remember.