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  • AN UNUSUAL YET USEFUL ACTIVITY
    March 28, 2024 Rebecca Sharrock

    AN UNUSUAL YET USEFUL ACTIVITY

    As I have previously mentioned, I had no idea that I had HSAM (Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory) until I was diagnosed with it at 23 years old; nor did I know that the condition even existed until I was 21 years old. It was my firm belief that every person thought, felt and remembered in exactly the same way as I do.

    Yet regardless of whether I knew about my style of memory being somewhat rare or not, there was always an activity (which I now know to be related to my HSAM) that I enjoyed doing since I was a preteen.

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  • TIME APPEARS TO PASS QUICKER THE LONGER THAT WE ARE ALIVE
    February 1, 2024 Rebecca Sharrock

    TIME APPEARS TO PASS QUICKER THE LONGER THAT WE ARE ALIVE

    I’m definitely not the only person who says that the passage of time seemingly becomes quicker as we progress through our lifetime. Many say that life is too short, and that age creeps up on us all. In my day-to-day life a lot of people are surprised when I tell them that their childhood and/or their teenage years really were decades (and not just a couple of years) ago.
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  • I HAVE TO JUST SETTLE TO DIFFER
    December 21, 2023 Rebecca Sharrock

    I HAVE TO JUST SETTLE TO DIFFER

    As November was rolling through, and the time to begin writing this month’s blog arrived, I was initially stuck with deciding what to write about. However, earlier this morning feelings of frustration occurred when I couldn’t understand something that my mum was telling me (due to my difficulties with discerning most people’s verbal language). This even led to a minor meltdown. Though, perhaps on a much more positive note, the subject of this month’s blog came along to me from this experience. The subject is about me having to just settle to differ, whenever I don’t understand the language/communication of most, or even when they don’t understand my method of communication.

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  • THE EQ MATTERS JUST AS MUCH AS THE IQ DOES
    December 11, 2023 Rebecca Sharrock

    THE EQ MATTERS JUST AS MUCH AS THE IQ DOES

    Nowadays virtually everyone has heard about a psychological measurement called the IQ (or Intelligence Quotient) score. This assesses a person’s strengths and weaknesses in areas including logic, spatial awareness, working memory, mathematical reasoning, general knowledge and certain kinds of literacy skills. Many of us are curious to know what our IQ scores are for self-knowledge and receive excitement or disappointment once a number is given for how intelligent we are determined to be. Yet when IQ tests were first developed in the early 20th Century, it wasn’t merely to create competition between highly intelligent people.
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  • Image of a box like character is standing mournfully with a heart tucked under their arm
    October 10, 2023 Rebecca Sharrock

    THERE ARE TIMES WHEN IT DOES HURT TO BE DIFFERENT

    In today’s day and age, a lot is being done to promote neurodiversity (or to promote acceptance of people with disabilities). We have come a reasonable distance in a very short space of time. Thus as a person who has disabilities myself, I am in truth very thankful that I wasn’t born in an earlier time. However as life for people with disabilities was exceptionally difficult a mere century ago (and nothing much was done to improve those conditions until recently), we are still a long way from living in a world that is even close to perfect.
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