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183 Help Myself.” (The Four Tops.) I was the only one who called in. Nobody else recognized it. And when listening to my boyfriend play around on his guitar...for every chord and every group of notes or sound effects he does with his amp, I’m matching up in my mind what songs have used those exact chords and notes and effects. ;D It’s impossible for me to just hear the notes in a neutral way without my mind mentally placing them to other songs, like a computer, matching things up. One time when pondering out loud my audio recognition abilities I received a prominent ear tone in my right ear at that exact moment, as if confirming it. *% Unusually good memory. The ability - more so when I was younger though -— to remember names, dates, birthdays, addresses, driver’s license/plate numbers/vehicle info., and all manner of data and trivia and life happenings in general, including conversations. It really did stand out amongst the people I was around, and became known at one particular job I temped at in ‘97 as a file clerk. There were over 30 cabinet Filed” baskets, and files strewn on people’s desks and everywhere. But it soon became known that if you couldn’t find a file in the drawer, just ask me...I’ll know where it is off the top off my head. “It’s in the basket...on so-and-so’s desk...on top of the cabinet...” The psychologists would come up to me and toss out a patient’s name, skeptical that I could possibly know...and I always did. Soon they came to expect it as a given. ;) This is also why I was such a great memorize and regurgitate robot machine in school. In high school I’d wait until the last day before a test - sometimes within only hours before - and then learn the entire two weeks’ lesson...and get an A or B. Didn’t pay attention to Biology class all of second semester in 10 grade in Connecticut, and learned all five months’ material in two days and got the highest score in the class on the final. Shocked even me. Took tests on books I never read...and passed. I'd recall details about the books that I heard during class discussion...in the background, while I did other “more important” things like read rs . 4 toy was 23 and worked as a waitress at one of my jobs — I was “on” all week and couldn't forget anything if I tried. I spent the entire Part III - Expanded Insights —_—_—_—_—— ee *e The ability - more so when I was 1 s ead temped at in ‘97 as a file clerk. drawers with over a 100 files per drawer, as well as various “To Be my own books that J wanted to read. ;) And there was one freak incident that occurred in 1997 when I