A highly superior memory: One of Lynne Malcolm's favourite programs
All In The Mind
ABC Australia
4.5 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
If you were given a date from the last five years could you say what day of the week it was? One young woman in Australia can remember every single day of her life since she was born. We hear about her life and the research she’s involved with—as a single participant.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an ABC podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | Hi, it's All In The Mind on RN Summer. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm Lynne Malcolm. |
| 0:13.9 | And to celebrate my years as host on All In The Mind, |
| 0:17.4 | we bring you some of my favourite programs. |
| 0:20.2 | And how could I forget this one from 2018? |
| 0:24.9 | And I can't forget. I can't forget. I can't forget. I can't forget. I can't forget, but I don't |
| 0:35.5 | remember one. |
| 0:44.4 | What's your earliest memory? Could it possibly go back to when you were a newborn baby? |
| 0:53.1 | It was the 23rd of December, 1989 when I was 12 days old. I was lying down on the sheepskin car cover of the four-wheel drive |
| 0:56.2 | and my parents were taking a picture of me |
| 1:00.7 | and I was just looking up at the camera wondering what it was |
| 1:04.7 | looking up at the steering wheel of the car |
| 1:07.4 | because I was on the driver's seat wondering what it was |
| 1:10.4 | and at that age every... will of the car because I was on the driver's seat wondering what it was. |
| 1:17.3 | And at that age, every sight I heard, every scent I smelt. |
| 1:19.6 | Just everything was a novelty then. |
| 1:22.4 | And I was just curious to keep learning. |
| 1:28.2 | Are you really feeling and experiencing that 12th day as you're speaking to me? |
| 1:39.5 | Yeah, just emotionally and just how busy my mind was back then when I was a 12-day-old baby. |
| 1:44.0 | Do you think you remember anything about, say, your birth? |
| 1:52.4 | I don't remember leaving the womb, but I remember being in a bed with glass walls around me. |
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