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re: What's your earliest memory in life?
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:54 pm to MasCervezas
Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:54 pm to MasCervezas
When I was 3 and the ring bearer in my cousin's wedding
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Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:57 pm to MasCervezas
First day of preschool when I was 3. Since I was an August baby, I was younger and smaller than most in my class. I walked in and 3 kids pushed me down and took my Ninja Turtle. They then went into the corner and started to play. I walked up behind them and kicked one in the face, he started wailing. Went to time out. Nobody fricked with me again.
Those 3 guys and I ended up being really good friends to this day. Eddie still claims he doesn't remember me kicking him in the face.
Those 3 guys and I ended up being really good friends to this day. Eddie still claims he doesn't remember me kicking him in the face.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 1:00 pm to KG6
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I'm only 28, but I told my mom I remembered riding in a wheel chair with her in the hospital. She was stunned I recalled that. She had to let me know that it was from when my sister was born. I didn't know that, but that's the last time my mom was in a wheelchair in the hospital. So the memory is there. You can't throw out a blanket statement like "no one can remember before a certain age". Everyone's brain works differently.
My initial numbers were a bit high (I've seen average earliest memories as an adult ranging from 3.6-5.0 in some of the stuff I read online) but your post doesn't really refute the point. Your mother may have been shocked that you remembered that, but that doesn't mean that someone (including your mother) didn't at some point after you were 4-5 relay the information to you in a way that allowed your mind to integrate the "known event" as a personal memory. You'll carry it through your life as though you actually remember. I'm not sure how old you were, btw.
And yes, brains work differently. But it's still an organ and shares enough in common with enough other brains that fields like psychology and psychiatry can exist.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 1:01 pm to MasCervezas
Watching inspector gadget at about 2 or 3
Posted on 1/28/15 at 1:06 pm to Navytiger74
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ranging from 3.6-5.0
I can agree with this range a little better.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 1:07 pm to Navytiger74
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In reality, though, I only remember remembering that. I remember having it relayed to me at some other date.
I can't imagine my mom sitting down with me and saying, "Hey Panzer, remember when you played "doctor" with Venessa Dupuque when you were 5, touching her little puss and butt?" That sure as shite didn't happen.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 1:09 pm to MasCervezas
In my crib (literally) looking at Piper (the family dog). Piper wasn't alive for my second birthday. You can call BS on it but it's true.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 1:17 pm to Navytiger74
I don't know what to tell you man. You've got your mind made up. But i remember. I can remember being potty trained at daycare. I can remember the "older kids" leaving daycare to go to kindergarten. I honestly have a memory of crapping my pants when I was potty training and the lady with curly hair at the daycare had to clean me. I REMEMBER all of this. Some of it my parents couldn't possibly have given me information to build the memory, nor could anyone else as I never saw them again after 4. A lot of those happened between 3 and 4, but I have no doubt I remember those other things . There are crazy instances where kids out there reading at like 18 months, so yes the brain is an organ that shares enough characteristics from person to person to have a general understanding where the average person would start remember, but there are obviously outliers .
Posted on 1/28/15 at 1:20 pm to MasCervezas
I was about three and playing with a dump truck and sand. Picked up some sand to put it in the dump truck and had cat shite all over my hand.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 1:25 pm to KG6
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I don't know what to tell you man. You've got your mind made up. But i remember. I can remember being potty trained at daycare. I can remember the "older kids" leaving daycare to go to kindergarten.
what about that poor woman with a photographic memory who was on NPR and could tell you everything that happened on any given date..ever..in her history and was spot on every time?
Posted on 1/28/15 at 2:28 pm to soccerfüt
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Psychologists will tell you that anything earlier than 5-6 is simply a memory of a memory
I also call BS on the psychologists.
I am 68 and can remember lots of things before I was 3 years old. We moved from the St.Thomas Project to suburban New Orleans just before my 3rd birthday. I loved animals and I remember seeing mules pulling garbage wagons and ice wagons on St.Thomas Street. Also remember going with my mom on the street car to some market and buying a chicken. She picked out the live chicken from a cage on the sidewalk. Then a man would catch it a bring it into a back room and come out with the dressed parts on a piece of paper(with the yellow feet and partially developed eggs).
I know. I WIN! Yeah, unfortunately now I can't remember where I put my keys...
Posted on 1/28/15 at 2:40 pm to MasCervezas
swallowing a marble and choking. dad gave me heimlich. i survived.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 2:53 pm to LSUgirl4
I remember watching the Jungle Book at the old Grand Theatre in Thibodaux. It was re-released in 78, so I would have been 3. I vaguely remember a fishing trip with my Dad and Paw Paw where we got out of the boat and were standing on a pile of oyster shells. And I remember my little brother being born. We are a little less than three years apart.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 3:28 pm to MasCervezas
dad carrying me as a baby to the changing table
Posted on 1/28/15 at 6:35 pm to Captain Cruze
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dad carrying me as a baby to the changing table
So you were born as a female?
Posted on 1/28/15 at 6:39 pm to MasCervezas
Getting a bad haircut (although at the time I wouldn't have known what that was at the time) or the scene of a frozen pond out the back door of our house and being told I couldn't go outside. Not sure which came first. I was 3 and they only happened a few weeks apart either way. Bad haircut was mostly as my mom was carrying me out from where said cut occurred... She was mumbling under her breath how ridiculous it was and "how mad your father is going to be"... and I thought she was saying he was going to be mad at me and it was somehow my fault.
Damn... I was impressionable.
Damn... I was impressionable.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 6:45 pm to MasCervezas
My circumsiion.
I didn't walk for a year after that operation.
I didn't walk for a year after that operation.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 6:46 pm to MasCervezas
I was 4 years old and I remember me and my little sister peering into my infant brothers crib and wondering what it was.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 6:48 pm to MasCervezas
I remember my favorite uncle always wanting to bathe me
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