There's a really cool book called "The Memory Artists" by Jeffrey Moore that deals with a lot of the things mentioned in this thread. Its main character is based on a real-life individual, and is a hypermnesic synaesthete; meaning he has an incredible memory (can remember his security blanket as a child, entire books, movies; pretty well everything he has ever done), and also "sees" people's voices: when they talk, their voices have a distinct shape and colour that he never forgets. It's really interesting to see/think how a person like that could function, and how much of a burden something like that could be.
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