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Mind Map/Palace/Room/Attic - What's it like?
So, for those of you who don’t know me - I’m a high functioning Autistic with BPD (borderline personality disorder) - not a sociopath, though I’ve been accused of that before to.

I naturally have a mind palace, I didn’t build it - it was already there.  I personally just call it my ‘brain’ and leave it at that.  Most people have no idea how a mind palace works, never mind what it ‘feels’ like, and while I don’t know if I can give an accurate description, I’m going to try.

Let me just say - no I’m not a genius, and if I ever met Sherlock I would feel like an utter idiot in his presence and would run and hide.  I also can’t do deductions, though like a lot of Sherlockians, I do try.  I do acknowledge that I learn very quickly and I have good observation and retention skills.

I can recall 150 dog breeds, behavioral patterns and standards at any given time.  It’s a ‘stress’ room for me.  Oddly enough, a picture of a needle is how I access that room, because that’s usually when I go into it.  I have a needle phobia, and my husband at the time, would tell me to list dogs in alphabetical order to keep me calm.  However; that room is vastly different from Sherlock’s Redbeard room.  Redbeard was a repressed memory, a very happy and sad memory that he had locked away.  We all have memories like that, memories that we keep locked up and we acknowledge they’re there, but we never truly think about them.  It was his emergency button, literally stored there to keep him calm.  These memories can actually stop you from going into shock.  They tend to be very powerful, memories that if you accidentally think about, make you cry.  I’m not sure what mine would be, but if I had to guess, it would have been when I used to dance as a child, in traditional native dress.  

It’s not just the memory though, it’s reliving that memory, and fully experiencing it.  That’s what the

This is the most amazing thread I have ever read, and I wish I found it sooner!  (Not finished yet... but I love it and I probably have a few things to add if it wasn't already said already.)

I do have one..

You know you're obsessed when:  You wish you had short curly hair so you could do the hair ruffle

I just figured I'd warn people about my insanity with this show.  

I'll also take the above comments as a compliment, I'm very bad for long posts like that.  I'm always worried I'll come off sounding like an arrogant sod, or a complete idiot, or even worse - ordinary.