When I was about a week old.” For some reason, I could always tell when my mother was holding me. She was my favorite person, and I always knew it immediately.
Rebecca was perplexed when a news piece on individuals like her was praised as “amazing” since she had always assumed as a child that everyone could recall things the way she could.
“When those people were going through their recollections, the reporters were saying ‘It’s amazing, incredible,'” Rebecca said when she saw this on television on January 23, 2011.
“Why are they calling this amazing? Isn’t it normal?” I asked my dad. Her parents clarified that they believed she could have HSAM,
Similar to others in the news, because of her unusual memory. Their concerns were validated two years later, and Rebecca was given a formal diagnosis.
According to 60 Minutes Australia, she was the only Australian with a diagnosis of HSAM as of 2019. Although many people find the unusual disease to be rather amazing,
