The answer is.....

[Karl_K]

A genius.

*blush* far from it.
My brain is just wired weird.
I have near zero memory for faces, names or places but concepts stick in my head like glue.
That includes spelling. For example in 6th grade my short term reading comprehension scores were off the charts actually topped out the test but spelling was atrocious.
Always have been that way.

That is one of the reasons I love photography which I forgot to mention.
A picture of something is a memory that did not form in my brain.

 

[kenny]

You know, it is not surprising - if you put Octavia in search engine of PS, this story does not come up. I don't know why. I ended up.putting Kenny, and got his threads about Octavia.

Karl, I think you need to change Octavia's name to Kenny.
...
"How big is YOUR Kenny?
Mine is 4 carats."

 

[Arkteia]

*blush* far from it.
My brain is just wired weird.
I have near zero memory for faces, names or places but concepts stick in my head like glue.
That includes spelling. For example in 6th grade my short term reading comprehension scores were off the charts actually topped out the test but spelling was atrocious.
Always have been that way.

That is one of the reasons I love photography which I forgot to mention.
A picture of something is a memory that did not form in my brain.

You know, I have an acquaintance who told me a story. He went to elementary school after his super-smart brother and equally brilliant sister. So the school expected another genius. The kid did not do well... they thought a tad and put him into an IEP program. Something did not click, they checked his IQ which proved to be 156 and put him in a gifted program but he was behind as well.

Long story short - by the time they figured out he was profoundly dyslexic, it was very difficult to correct it. He is brilliant at putting things together, but he reads all the instructions from the beginning to the end (this is what I, not a genius, hate doing). It takes him a long time, but then, he never returns back to the manuals just puts it all together.

 

[Karl_K]

Karl, I think you need to change Octavia's name to Kenny.
...
"How big is YOUR Kenny?
Mine is 4 carats."

rofl
ummm no....

 

[kenny]

 

[Arkteia]

*blush* far from it.

I have near zero memory for faces, names or places but concepts stick in my head like glue.

Super interesting, there is a condition called prosopagnosia, facial blindness, linked to some lack of connections between fusiform gyrus and other brain areas, and it is not so uncommon. 1-2% of the population I assume.

There is an opposite condition, described in the books about Harry Hole (by Jo Nesbo) - there is a policewoman with overdeveloped fusiform gyrus that allows each and every face she saw to stick in her memory. I don't know if it would be fun to live this way, but Jo Nesbo's books are great.

 

[asscherisme]

Or how many more cats do you want...

Haha! More than the 2 I have. It takes extreme self control to not get more!