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Do you have any memories from 2 years old?

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AGHHHH · 12/10/2018 18:06

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. Hmm

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?!

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Clarabella8 · 13/10/2018 08:50

I remember racing my twin to the double buggy, we both liked to sit in one particular seat, I have no idea why.
But I remember that. Also looking down at my feet with red wellies on and my toes being so cold they hurt.
I think lots of people do have these memories of being very young, they are just buried under so many others.
Strangely enough certain smells bring back these very early memories for me, just as if they happened last week .

Pennina · 13/10/2018 09:53

Me too - I remember seeing a peacock for the first time, sitting on my dad's shoulders, having to jump up and whack light switches with a book, sleeping in my first bed, and, on my 3rd birthday asking if it was true that I was only 3! All aged 2 (except for the 3rd birthday memories)

Giggorata · 13/10/2018 10:31

Loads, including pram, measles at 18 months, tottering about. They are just glimpses.

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ScottChegg · 13/10/2018 11:47

I remember being pushed in my pushchair, don't know exactly how old I was but I remember it because my mum must have stopped to talk to another lady and my memory is of laying back with a red canopy above me and them both coming round the front and looking in at me. I described it to my mum once, and the lady, she knew who it was and reckoned I must have been about 18 months - 2 years old.

I also remember having my nappy changed, laying down looking at some product with a picture of a baby's head on it next to me, then being picked up and waving goodnight to what I think was my grandparents. I especially remember the baby's face and being picked up (it was so high up!)

I absolutely definitely remember my third birthday. My dad was holding me, coming down the stairs, he was telling me it was my birthday and I remember I didn't know what that meant. At the bottom of the stairs was something which must have had a sheet over it. My dad whipped it off in a kind of tada! moment and there was a blue and yellow tricycle underneath.

ScottChegg · 13/10/2018 11:49

As for not remembering things before the age of 5!!! I remember loads of things from being 4, for definite! My 4th birthday, clearly, and lots of memories of going to playschool etc.

Loonoon · 13/10/2018 11:53

I described a memory to my mum when I was about 30 years old. I was standing between her and my dad holding their hands. Dad was holding a carrycot with my sister in it, we were waiting to cross the road and were standing between two big banked up piles of mud and I knew we were visiting my granny. She was amazed - I was describing the winter of ‘63, the ‘mud’ was piles of banked up snow in London and I was between 15 and 17 months old at the time.

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