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People who claim to have memories of being a two year old?


I don't believe them.

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i am a blank slate before age 5.

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I have a vague memory of my mother being pregnant with my younger brother when I was about 4 but don’t really have any vivid memories of anything before age 5.

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Just after my third birthday my family moved to a new home. That's the first memory that I have which I'd call "complete" -- I remember where I was, who I was with, why I was there, what was happening, when it happened, et cetera. But I do recognize photos of the old place and have some memories from there, though incomplete. For example, the old place had an odd dishwasher. It wasn't hooked directly into the house's plumbing but had a rubber hose and clamp rig which you attached to the kitchen sink faucet then turned on the hot water. I couldn't tell you when it happened, but I remember being in the kitchen while that thing was running.

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I agree. I don't remember anything prior to age 5, and I have a photographic memory. My earliest memory involves being bitten in the ass in kindergarten.

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Without having read the thread completely, I will comment :

I remember the memory of sitting in my stroller across from my cousin who is only a couple months older than me in the kitchen of my home when I was small enough to be stuck in a stroller. I'm staring at him because we are at eye level and all else I can see are his Mom's (my Aunt's) shins and whatever the kitchen landscape was.
This isn't a Vivid Memory, just a Memory of a Memory. Like the First Glimpse of Awareness, (from a burnt out hippie, haha).

Oh wow man.

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When I was 2 years old, we moved to a new place where a landmarks building can be seen outside of our window. So I spent some time by the windows, watching the building and waiting for it to sing. It never did, so after a while I ran to my parents and surprised them by saying "Here no god". The only reason that I still remember it because the landmarks building keep reminding me of my early insight.

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I have an excellent memory but that doesn't mean I remember everything. I do have two memories from age 2. Sitting in an empty fish tank was one and the other is dropping stuff through an upstairs floor grate. Maybe ten or so memories from age 3. Tons of memories from age 4 and up. I am 51.9

Always amused at the "I don't remember so you can't possibly" people.

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Oh and also fingerpainting but there is a picture of me doing that so that one might be an aided memory.

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> Always amused at the "I don't remember so you can't possibly" people.

Same here. And kids can form memories for all sorts of reasons. I'm in my late fifties, which gives you an idea of how old I was when the 1960s space race was going on. I'm too young to remember Project Mercury, but at the other end remember most of the Apollo missions. But there's one space mission I remember that was quite a bit earlier than the other ones I recall, just because it happened to be on my birthday.

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I remember the moon land in 1969. I was 6.

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I don't believe you.

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i remember when i was born. it was quite a ride.

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AHH...THE MEMORY OF SLIP N SLIDING OUT OF YOUR MOTHER'S VAGINA...GOOD TIMES.🙂

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i was asking if anyone had a towel.

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THAT KID IS GONNA HAVE A LOT OF HAIR.🤔

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and then I watched Bonanza.

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I think it's possible to have still memories or snapshots being two years old, if we are speaking that you have memories being (e.g.)two years and eleven months old.

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