Would it be seen as weird to have an almost photographic short term memory but terrible long term memory?

[sensible27]

I'm terrible at both so it's not really me we're talking about here.

[Regmorus]

Nope, it's possible and normal.

Having worked with and having dissected both I can tell you that they have almost no connection concerning whether you can apply one or another. (except for establishable link that allows to stimulate simultaneous improvement of one of them when improvement of other occurs, but even this link is not necessarily established by default.)

One even can live the whole life having aquired good skills in one of them and having acquired nothing in the other.

[stuntbrain]

Maybe. I can't remember

[_DARKNESS_]

I don’t know if it’s photographic, but I can roughly visualise what I’ve remembered in my mind. Whether it’d be road directions to a place, a group of numbers, or the notes to a piece of music. It’s definitely long term though

I’d say audio is my strength for memory

[anon1903]

Indeed. Photographic memory can come handy many times. How does it even work?

[sensible27]

Super sensitive tertiary neural nets.

[OddBeMe]

Have you properly tested it? I have perfect memory about things I care about like song lyrics. But not so much on period table, multiplication tables, etc.

[venomhbk1313]

No not at all I have a terrible memory of things men are just as forgetful as women are I'm sure it's 50/50 on that one

[NopeWhatTime]

If it is, I'm in trouble