Comments on: Jill Price: The Woman Who Can’t Forget

By: Marco te Pas

Marco te Pas — Mon, 11 May 2009 10:35:54 +0000

I also remembere everything i can not forget anything, just like her. i have the same good memory. i dont understand people when they dont remember things….

By: Vagabond

Vagabond — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:00:35 +0000

I guess also she can’t forget to eat.

By: El Arcano

El Arcano — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:53:09 +0000

I remember (I scarcely have the right to use this ghostly verb) the tale “Funes, the Memorious” from the argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, about a man who was able to remember EVERYTHING: “In effect, Funes not only remembered every leaf on every tree of every wood, but even every one of the times he had perceived or imagined it.”

http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/borges.htm

By: JamesM

JamesM — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:17:54 +0000

I have a similar issue, maybe not exact and unfaltering like this woman’s… but my memory does tend to get a bit crowded as I have a hard time forgetting things. I don’t remember exactly everything nor do I make an attempt to, but I remember bits and pieces that happen to be precise details. This makes retracing my steps quite easy and I’ll have exactly what I needed based on what I remember.

The problem? I remember the stupidest things. Even if it’s just an offhand remark that I read in an email that somehow comes back to haunt the person I’m talking to. “I never said that!” / “Lemme find that email, you said ‘blah and blah’… Yep, here it is.” / “Aww, crud. You suck.”

The worst part about remembering trivial and stupid details is that, yes, it really does crowd the mind. I can’t shut my brain off when I try to get to sleep and end up remembering/reliving moments from my years’ past that I’d really, really like to forget. Nearly every morning I’ll wake up shortly after having a pretty extensive vivid dream. Details as rich as it was happening. Checking the mail 4 years ago, what I got in the mail that day, how I felt, etc… It doesn’t go away easily.

Quite frankly, I’m tired of remembering the one moment where I screwed up during piano recital (when I was 7 years old! 23 years ago!) and waking up to it feeling just as embarrassed now as I did then.

By: Irredeemable

Irredeemable — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:12:00 +0000

@ fiestoro

Your joke made me smile. I was funny how the…. I am sorry, I forgot.

By: Li

Li — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:04:11 +0000

What a boring job. If I were her, I’d go to casinos all around the world to play blackjack.

By: Gail Pink

Gail Pink — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:49:18 +0000

Yuu mean Diane Sawyer is in her sixties and looks that great? Sheesh.
Great post!

By: ted

ted — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:40:29 +0000

I wouldn’t want to live my life without the excuse of “I forgot”.

By: xadrian

xadrian — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:37:45 +0000

What a crappy segment. I want this lady to have her own TLC special.

By: Fiestoforo

Fiestoforo — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:35:59 +0000

In Chile, there is a joke that has the same theme:

An old man, who was 100, with an extraordinary memory, is visited by a young journalist. He asked many questions about his life, like what he ate in his 4th birthday. “I ate eggs,” he recalled.
The journalist was happy and his interview was a success. 50 years passed and he became the Head Director of Life Magazine.

After retiring, he remembered his first interview and decided to pay a visit to the town where this man lived and leave flowers at his tomb.

When he arrived, people told him that the old men was still alive and 150 years old.

The journalist ran to his house shouting: but how? how?

The old man answered:
“fried, fried eggs.”

I though this piece of news was in fact my old joke!

By: rblunt

rblunt — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:11:22 +0000

if you read the Wired magazine article, she and as it turns out a few others have a offshoot of OCD. Pretty epic though.

By: violet

violet — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:20:59 +0000

Not fake, and not enviable. The brain, as I understand it, has lots of very good reasons for letting things go. Her mind is completely crowded, and I bet it’s no picnic.

By: l'elk!

l'elk! — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:26:12 +0000

i’d advise her to go to vegas and play blackjack….

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:56:21 +0000

i just dont know, sounds fake to me… eh

By: Christophe

Christophe — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:18:57 +0000

I wonder what her job is and what impact her skills had on it.
She should do politics : she’d be a killer

By: seefish3

seefish3 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:56:19 +0000

I stopped watching television when I got sick of manipulative garbage like this. It just made me angrier and angrier. Maybe I should stop reading blogs, too.

You’ve been a wonderful audience…

By: zav

zav — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:53:53 +0000

Time does not heal all “wound”, time heals all “wounds”. All implies what it refers to is more than one and wounds is more than one wound.

By: Edward

Edward — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:32:28 +0000

I have never had such empathetic sorrow.

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:05:27 +0000

Shoot, I can barely remember on which date the 4th of July falls.