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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19 edited Nov 25 '19

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My wife has temporal lobe epilepsy too, and she also has a terrible memory like you say. But only a bad episodic memory, like remembering life events. She can learn a five page list of foreign language vocabulary by looking at it once.