I literally only remember like the outlines of events, I don’t remember like the colors of clothing, or exact words of converasations, or like smell of the room. How the f do people remember that stuff? Like, no way they have photographic memory, do they just partly invent detail?
Many autibiographies are personal whitewashing. So it is more a question of creativity than of memory.
Almost all, would be more accurate. And some even unintentional, we tend to unconsciously modify our memory to make ourselves look better