The Forgetting God

People who are diagnosed with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM) can’t forget anything. Even if they want to, they can’t. Does this describe God? Does our Creator have HSAM?

Like most teens, Jill Price had her share of difficulties — the usual highs and lows.

But Price’s world was changing in ways that she didn’t understand. No one else seemed to get it either. Since she was 8 years old, she could remember just about everything that happened to her. And then, when she was 14, she had the intuitive knowledge that her memory was complete. She could, in fact, remember everything that happened to her.

Her grades in school were average. She could not remember lists, names and dates — that sort of thing. But she had total recall about events she’d experienced. For example, she could remember the dates she saw the dentist from five years before. She knew what she was doing on any Christmas Day of years gone by.

She was blessed — or was she cursed? — with a memory that would not allow her to forget anything.

She couldn’t forget!

Later, in the early 2000s, she would be the first person to be diagnosed with...