Meet The Super Human of Nepal With His Astonishing Ability to Memorize: Bijaya Shahi

    Imagine the morning; when you wake up and you are blessed with some amazing supernatural power. You obviously would feel great to have such a power like never feel pain, calculate faster than calculator, memorize everything that you read or listen and so. Isn't it great? Of course, it would be great, but these things happen one in millions only. Medically, these sorts of abilities are regarded as abnormalities that a normal person never can achieve because they are not the skills that you can learn. For such powers, you must be the one in a million. Saying these things, it does not mean that such persons should be either regarded as godly being or compared with genius. 

     One similar case is found in Nepal too. A boy named Bijaya Shahi from Kalikot district of Karnali province come up in the media with his astonishing ability to read large books within few minutes. Reading a paper and memorizing it is a matter of a blink of his eyes. He already had a world record too. 

    Talking about his power; sometimes the most amazing abilities of the human brain are revealed exactly when things go wrong with it. People who have mental abilities that could only be characterized as superhuman (like having photographic memory, playing music perfectly after hearing it just once, or doing complex mathematical calculations in one's head, or feeling zero pain etc.) but otherwise severely disabled in every day cognitive functions and social interaction. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅. Even though you've never heard of Kim Peek, chances are you've heard the movie Rain Man. Kim was the inspiration for the character played by Dustin Hoffman in the movie. Kim Peek was born with severe brain damage. His childhood doctor told Kim's father to put him in an institution and forget about the boy. Kim's severe developmental disabilities, according to the doctor, would not let him walk let alone learn. Kim's father disregarded the doctor's advice. Till his death, Kim struggled with ordinary motor skills and had difficulty walking. He was severely disabled, cannot button his shirt and tests well below average on a general IQ test. But what Kim can do was astounding: he read some 12,000 books and used to remember everything about them. "Kimputer," as he is lovingly known to many, could read two pages at once - his left eye read the left page, and his right eye read the right page. It took him about 3 seconds to read through two pages - and he remembered everything on them. Kim could recall facts and trivia from 15 subject areas from history to geography to sports. Tell him a date, and Kim could tell you what day of the week it is. He also used to remember every music he ever heard. 

    H𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙠𝙞𝙢 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 like Rebecca Sharrock, 30, Brisbane, Australia. She can remember every minute of every day in the finest of detail, and each time she experiences the emotions she felt afresh. That’s what life with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory, or HSAM, is like. It means, in short, that I have this ability to remember everything, but that also means her brain has no capacity to forget. She was diagnosed with autism. When that happened, it was no great surprise. A year later She was told she had obsessive compulsive disorder, but her parents and she knew there was something more. And then they saw a segment on a TV news show about HSAM. Her mom recognized it in her instantly. From a very young age she would talk to her about things that had happened years before, right down to the back-and-forth of specific conversations. She always said: “Rebecca, live in the present,” while she’d always focus on the past. 

    T𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙣𝙤 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙪𝙡𝙖 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝙖 1000 𝙥𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙞𝙣 10 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙨. 𝙃𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨𝙣𝙩 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙚.𝙄𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙖 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙪𝙡𝙖. 𝙃𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨𝙣'𝙩 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙝𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙄𝙌 𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙀𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙞𝙣 𝙤𝙧 𝙏𝙚𝙨𝙡𝙖, 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢. W𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙥𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙣 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙚. Until then, he can be considered as a miracle boy, nothing else. 

-Sangat Rokaya Kshatriya