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Originally posted by Midlandmadman
I don't want people to think I am calling them a liar, but some of these "memories" seem like they would be something that was told to them. Especially the ones that involve some kind of trauma. I just can't imagine anyone remembering anything that happend to them before they were 2 and the person that said 7 months.... I find that hard to believe. If you got shocked by a plug at 7 months... your mom and dad or sisters and brothers probably retold you the story about what you did soooooo many times that you think you remember doing it....but, do you? Or the one about the snoopy snowman, do you really remember building it or do you have pictures of it, know you help build it cause you are in the pictures and think you remember building it?
I guess i am skeptical because I cant remember much. I think my first memory was in kindergarten.
But I know when I was 2 I got about 45 stiches in my head from my cousin hitting me in the head with a big rock. Do I remember this??? NO. I do have the scars and my family has told me about that day quite a few times. I have pics of me in the Hospital, so it would be very easy for me to say I remember this....but, I don't. I wonder if people get what they know happened and what they remember happened confused when they try to think back.
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I can't remember where I read it, but some university researchers determined children cannot form long term memories until the corpus callosum (the nerves connecting the two halves of the brain) has formed. The article said this happens around age 2. You can google it if you want more info.
I have two very early memories, I can't decide which came first. One is of me standing in a doorway looking at my brothers and sisters who were sitting in the living room watching tv. I was crying my eyes out because my mom had gone somewhere and I wanted to see her. The other one is of sitting in my maternal grandfather's lap. It's strange, because he died when I was 5 and it's one of the few memories I have of him. In either case I would have been around 3 years old.