My nephew is 10. I've watched him get senile about stuff that
happened before he was 7. He used to remember things so clearly
and now he's senile about them. I think it's a normal part of
how things go. They go away and come back again.
Strange thing has been happening over the past 2 years for me.
I'm 43 and I remember things that I _know_ I had forgotten about
for ... decades.
It's like I've been regaining all of my memory. Then again, I've
also been working at it smile emoticon
I think things that are emotional that you don't want to face
can get safely locked away in a "Do Not Enter: Monsters Be Here"
Box for a long long time. Earliest memory I have is about 1.5
years old, going down the sidewalk in a red firetruck with a
broken bell with a string attached for me to pull. I remember
hitting a broken piece of sidewalk. The tree was HUGE -
everything was very wide and tall.
Then I remember flying back into the house.
[I guess I got picked up].
Told my mom about it once; she was shocked I could remember
that. I've got a few like that. Yeah I asked her how old I was
and she remembered it. There's no pictures of it either so it's
not a reconstructed memory. I remember being at the Cerebral
Palsy center when I was 4 years old. I had best friend named
Alan. He had two fingers on one hand and a thumb on the middle
of his .. I don't know what it's called but it was like a nub at
the end of his wrist.
Anyway, I remember pulling part pieces of ham and calling them
spiderwebs and laughing our asses off.
He had blond hair and blue eyes. I remember when I was about 7
or 8 (I was in regular school by then) and she told me he died
and I remember being sad, although I remember "not" remembering
him at first, then crying that night when I *did* remember him.
I also remember a little girl that died when I was in
kindergarten. Michelle. She was in my kindergarten class and she
got hit by a car riding her bike. I heard about it from my
mother and remember crying over that and being a scared to get
back on my bike for a while.
