I even remember standing in the crib crying facing the wall and the bedroom door...
wow ... thanks for sharing againI've told this before on here.. but when I was around 15 years old I was recounting a memory to my mother about a strange woman holding me in her arms as we waved to my mother as she drove off in a Taxi.
She look horrified, and said '' you can't possibly remember that' you were only 14 months old''... but I had, and not only did I remember that I also remember being dropped from the top of the stairs in this strange woman's house.. to the bottom, by her young son who had been sent to get me out of my crib...and at only 9 years old couldn't hold me..
No-one had ever spoken about this first foster family in our house.. even despite the fast that I'd been fostered several times over the years..that first one had never been mentioned by anyone..
..I missed it the other time. I wonder why I can't remember before 4 or 5....Probably because you forgot, for now anyway. I know people who remember a lot of very specific things about many days when they were a year old, or any year up to 5 years old, over 55 years ago... and more.... I don't remember much from last week though... smile. Nor even most of the posts today ...wow ... thanks for sharing again
I remember reading a 'so called expert' who said no child has a memory before 3 years old.. and I thought.. what absolute rot. Not only did I remember the above at 14 months but I was abducted ( kidnapped).. in the street outside our house when I was 2 years old..wow ... thanks for sharing again
So called experts are often wrong...gosh you should write a book...
lol I can relate...
The fair was in 1939 and 1940. I went to it.
Did I see you on the ferris wheel ?
Maybe very early memories are not so surprising, but I haven't heard enough stories to guess. I remember eating a bowl of snow in my highchair.I've told this before on here.. but when I was around 15 years old I was recounting a memory to my mother about a strange woman holding me in her arms as we waved to my mother as she drove off in a Taxi.
She look horrified, and said '' you can't possibly remember that' you were only 14 months old''... but I had, and not only did I remember that I also remember being dropped from the top of the stairs in this strange woman's house.. to the bottom, by her young son who had been sent to get me out of my crib...and at only 9 years old couldn't hold me..
No-one had ever spoken about this first foster family in our house.. even despite the fast that I'd been fostered several times over the years..that first one had never been mentioned by anyone..
So did I. I was 6 when it opened.
How does the memory bank work? I don't know. What is saved and what isn't? I can remember a lot up until 5 years old. Lots of dolls, puppies, games, playing at the next door neighbors every day, fun at grandparents, dad playing the piano, Santa,, remembering my uncle knocking on my grandparent's door ho ho ho so I would go to sleep. I didn't know it was him at the time. My grandparent's let their parakeet out to fly around the living room every so often. I remember pretending to go to school long before school age by walking to the park in my grandparent's neighborhood with books. All of these memories are long before school age.
I suspect you are a survivor type.
Yes..well.. I wish I knew that came to be.. but I've been given plenty in my life to have to survive... so I must be..
I promise you, many people including my own husband have said the same thing..
I noticed something about you right off.
Actually, while some so-called scientists or other 'experts' try to analyze it,
