Did you ever find it possible to read a piece of writing and remember it for the rest of your life, without anyway of forgeting it? Well, there are only a few people that do have this problem, and no it’s not a gift, it’s considered a problem. People with super-autobiographical memory face have a mind of a computer hard drive that remembers EVERYTHING; names, liscene plate numbers, phone numbers, food recipes, articles, dates and so much more. There are only four confirmed cases with this virus.

Bob Petrella.
A Los Angeles based producer for the Tennis Channel. Give him a date such as, March 30 1981. Bob Petrella, won’t just tell you that March 30th was they day Ronald Reagan was shot, but also that Indiana beat North Carolina for the NCAA championship that evening. Something more remarkable is the fact that, when it comes to Pittsburgh Steelers, Bob’s favorite team, if you show him a single freeze frame from any of the games he’s seen, he will not only tell you the date, but the final score as well. According to ABC news, Bob remembers all of his birthdays except two of them since he turned five. He remembers where he hung out and what he did with his high school friends. He has vivid images of 1970’s, where we see grainy pictures at this time. Usually, when people lose their cell phone, they’d panic because they lose all the numbers in the phone. Bob doesn’t need to worry about that because, all his contact numbers are up in his head.

Jill Price.
Jill Price, best known out of the four, describes her gift as “nonstop, uncontrollable and totally exhausting”. Jill was the first to be known withi this condition and he recently published a memoir, “The Woman Who Can’t Forget”. She remembers most details of her life since she was 14. She compares her super memory to walking around with a video camera on her shoulder. She said, “If you throw a date out at me, it’s as if I pulled a videotape out, put in a VCR and just watched the day.” Pretty creepy and does seem annoying. In Jill’s memoir, she describes super memory as a nuisance, partly because she doesn’t forget painful events, no matter what.

Brad Williams.
Brad Williams, a Wisconsin radio anchor who embraces his super memory and enjoys having it tested. If you asked him what happened on November 7, 1991, he’ll tell you that it was the day, Magic Johnson announced he has HIV positive, but William knows more, he’d know that it was a Thursday, that there was big snowstorm a week before that. He has a trouble with sports, unlike Bob, but excels at pop culture trivia. He can name you every Academy Award winner and even answered five questions correctly in the category “1984 Movies” when he was on Jepardy in 1990. Williams never knew that he was “different” than other people. He thought other people had the same ability.

Rick Baron.
Rick Baron, shows signs of hardcore OCD. He organizes and catalogs everything. His bills are in order from the city of the federal reserve bank (where they were issued), and also by how the sport teams in that certain city did. After hearing about Jill Price with super memory, Rick also announced his ability to the world on USA today. Unlike Jill, Baron uses his ability to win stuff. He is always constantly entering and winning trivia contests. His list of rewards incluse restaurant gift cards, tickets to sporting events, even all expense paid vacations, he’s won 14 of them. He claims to remember every single details of his life since 11. He’s also successful for remembering day to day going back to when he was seven.

Would you want super memory? I wouldn’t. If something tragic happened, I wouldn’t be able to forget it. Which is the biggest reason, I wouldn’t want super memory.

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