Do you have any memories from 2 years old?

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I want to see a healthcare professional today and recollected two important memories I had from the age of 2. I don't have many of them from a young age but I do have some that have stayed with me. I recollected them to my mum when I was younger and she didn't understand how I could remember the events, and the specific details.

He basically said I was lying and said I'm obviously just recounting a story someone told me, and that your brain can't remember things before the age of 5... in some vaguely scientific way.

I didn't think I was some child prodigy but I can't be the only one who remembers something at that age and he's talking shit surely?!

Yes I remember an animal that we had only for a short time (was found injured and parents took it in until it was well enough to be released) and where we lived at the time. We were only there for a few months whilst waiting for our house to be built and I turned two when we lived there. I have specific memories of where the furniture was in the room and pictures on the walls.

Yes, running along a beach and my dad swinging me round. We were on holiday and I turned 2 whilst we were away.

I remember being disappointed about how useless my new baby sister was after i had been led to believe I would be getting someone to play with.

False advertising.

I have one very clear memory of my cat jumping onto my pram.. a big Silver Cross type pram. I was definitely under two years old. He was a tortoiseshell, the only one I have ever had that colour.

I also remember a train journey down to Falmouth where we visited my Grandad on 'his' ship and him holding me.

I remember breaking my arm falling off a seesaw because of the pain when I was 5. When I was 4, a few older girls on my street said they'd do my make up. They painted nail varnish all over my cheeks and laughed nastily, I didn't know until I got home pleased as punch about my makeover and saw my parents reaction. I felt really hurt, angry, and embarrassed.

My earliest memory is at 2.5 years when my brother was born and I visited him and DM in hospital. I remember hugging my mum and stroking her lovely silky dressing gown with bright red flowers on it, holding my DBs hand while he was in the incubator, he was all wrinkly and warm. There aren't any photos of our first meeting, so parents were quite surprised when I talked about this years later.

These are the 3 strongest memories I have before the age of 7, but only because of the emotions linked to the memories.

I remember getting pushed into the corner in my high chair away from the table for throwing food. The memory is about the rage and frustration I felt more than anything. I also remember my sister fainting off her chair at the kitchen table so I must have only been about 2, I don’t think she did it beyond the age of 4.

I can remember things from this age, nothing too vivid apart from things that upset me, or made me happy, I guess insignificant now.

My DB was born when I was 22 months old. I don't remember his birth/hospital visits but I do have memories has an only child. I have many memories - like looking down at my feet when I flunked around in my Dad's shoes. Actually my Mum was in hospital then as my Nan was there and she lived 6000 miles away usually. My DB on the other hand has no memories before about 6. He reckons I terrorised him so he's blocked it

I can remember being made to wear a very itchy jumper and absolutely hating being made to wear it (as in, having it pulled over my head by a family friend) .... I've got it now for my son, it's slightly too big for him at 2, but I was surprised how small it is and how young I must have been.

We moved house when I was 4yo. I could describe the whole house to you, carpets, wallpaper, layout of the house etc. All sorts of details that aren’t visible from photographs of the time.

I’d suggest most people can remember things from before they started school so it’s odd he suggested no one remembers things from before they were 5yo.

@HenryInTheTunnel Ha ha! I was had by that claim too!

I've heard people say that you can't have early memories. What they mean is they don't have early memories.

I have several memories from when I was two - for instance, the puppy jumping out of my father's arms, being disappointed that my new baby brother wasn't actually ready to play in the garden, my aunt's Dalmatian running up the stairs. Not big significant happenings that people would have talked about just snapshot memories.

I can remember being in my cot and something touching my feet. My mother later told me that she used to check how warm I was by touching my feet. I described the room and she confirmed we left that house when I was 18 months old.

I can also remember being pushed in my pushchair along the prom and being manhandled onto the sand and parked to face out to sea. I was a similar age.

Bang goes their theory!

Yes. I have one and it's something bad that happened to me which is presumably why I remember it.

I've heard people say that you can't have early memories. What they mean is they don't have early memories.

Spot on!

I remember very clearly the taste of milk drunk through a rubber bottle teat. No idea how old I was though. My mum was a bit lax about stuff like that so I could well have been around 2 or 3.

I remember my brother being born, I was 2 yrs 9 months and clearly remember screaming as we left the hospital as my Mam was staying in with the baby.
I also remember being in a care home with my Gran and great-Uncle visiting my great-Gran. Nothing major, I just remember my Uncle shaking an alarm clock that was broken. Great-Gran died the summer before my brother was born so I would have been just 2 then.

PS I don't see how they can prove or disprove that theory.

I have a rational dislike of eyes because I injured one when I was just under two and had to have an operation to cut off a cyst. Even though I don't remember having the accident I must have a memory somewhere about it.

I have memories from being 2. I remember my mum being pregnant with my sister who was born when I was 2.10. I remember her placing my hand on her bump and asking me if I could feel the baby moving. I remember the look of excitement and eagerness on her face, delighted to be sharing that moment with me. I couldn't feel anything but I said yes, because I knew it was a special moment.

I remember asking her how the baby got got there, and her telling me in far more than was necessary at the age of two!! I remember getting bored and turning my attention to the tv (I don't remember the programme) and all i can remember now of her explanation was that "It's only nice if it's with someone you love and that should be your husband."

We moved house when I was 2.8. I remember going to see the house while it was still being built, which we did quite regularly. I remember standing in a space that I was told would become the garage, at that time there were no walls higher than my knees. I remember going later and being shown what would become my bedroom. I remember the smell of cement, plaster, bricks and wood involved in the construction.

I have vivid and detailed memories of the day nursery I attended from the time we moved to that house until I was about 3.5, and even more detailed memories of the school nursery I attended the year before starting school.

When I mention things from that time to my parents they are surprised at the extent of my memory. Some things they don't remember, and some they had forgotten until I remind them.

When I once mentioned such memories to a HCP when on a work placement she was surprised and impressed by my recollections (and I was only 17 or 18 at the time). Her conclusion was not that I must be wrong, but that I must have had a stimulating and happy childhood to have remembered so much.

I remember being really frightened of crawling up the spiral open slat staircase.
The wood was slippery and i found it hard to get up onto the next step.

When I asked mum about it we apparently lived in a maisonette for 6 weeks just before I turned 3 which had that staircase.

I think I can remember sitting up in my pram.

I remember lying in my pram looking up at the laburnham tree. My mother says she put me out in the garden every day until I was two. I remember wetting myself at the beach and then crying because I couldn't find my mother. I was 2 and a half, and we didn't discuss it until I described the memory and my mother told me where we were, how old I was etc.
I remember my mother crying as she left the antenatal clinic and then we went back again. Turns out a midwife had told her her baby had died and she had to go away and go back later to see a doctor (who said her baby was fine.) We didn't talk about it until a few years ago, so I am not 'remembering' something I have been told.
I also remember my father beckoning me into their bedroom to show me the baby who had been born in the night. I was four years 2 months.

A few of being 2. I remember being toilet trained and why I was scared to go on the toilet. I remember getting a red telephone as a birthday present which I really loved. I remember a lot of ages 2-5. I remember parts of the houses we lived in (we moved a couple of times). I remember the first try out day at kindergarden. I remember when my brother had to go to kindergarden and I was too young so mum and me went swimming. I remember riding my tricycle. I remember specific holidays, not the exact location (learnt that later) but visually: the street of Corinth and exotic fruits at the buffet in the seychelles and the tortoises. I remember the red dunes in Saudi Arabia. I remember the first time that I saw REAL SNOW age 4!

My dad remembers being bitten by a wild monkey. According to my nan he was 18 months when that happened.

Yup I remember moving house at age 3