What’s your first memory??

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I was just discussing this with my OH who said his first memory was from when he was around 2yo and his cousins had come over and they were trying to get him in trouble by telling him to hit them, then they’d go in and tell their parents.

I sat for a while thinking but I can’t remember anything from before I was about 5yo.... I remember nagging my mum to play a game with me and she said no, because she’d just sat down to read the paper. I don’t know why I remember that but nothing before then...or nothing more important.

What are your first memories?

I was in a pear orchard with some other children looking for fallen pears. I didn’t find any and the big children did. I cried and DM sat me on her lap and fed me yoghurt or budino. It was a nice caramel flavour rather than a fruit one.
I was 18
(The pear orchard was in DMs cousins garden and she remember so the visit)

I’ve always had a good memory and have lots of memories age less than 3 and from nursery age 3+

I was going to start a thread about this the other day. I seem to have very few memories and was wondering if that it is normal.

A lot of my memories are actually photos I have seen. I do remember, from about age 6-7 upwards, doing certain things (e.g. cycling around the neighbourhood, playing in my room, walking to school) but very little else. No major events...

But actually my memory generally is appalling, I often can't remember what we did at the weekend or where we went on holiday the year before.

18m I wouldn’t have had a tantrum over pears aged 18!

One of my earliest memories is being on holiday in America and my mum being so drunk she got arrested and I was put in foster care until my Nan and dad could come and get me.
I remember the oldish lady feeding me cheerios and sitting in her dark living room with the TV on.

Not the greatest first memory.

Oh, I would've been about 2

I must have been around 1 or 13 months. My brother was just tiny, he'd come home from the hospital and was put in the cot that I had refused to sleep in. So I promptly climbed into the cot and sat on him. I even remember feeling annoyed

Asking for cheese when I was around 3. I still love cheese now.....

I remember whizzing under my grandma's kitchen table in my baby walker on the stone flag floor. Also going from the front door to the kitchen and coming to stop by bumping into chair in kitchen next to the big black range... I was 15months old. Mum confirmed this was true when I told her about it in my 20's.
I could walk at 11months(don't remember that) but I loved whizzing round in the baby walker which I do remember...always been into fast modes of transport!

I have a very vague memory of being in the pushchair with my dummy it was raining (I gave up my dummy at 2 so sometime before then.) I remember moving house and being a bridesmaid both at 3 but again it’s vague. Really detailed memories don’t start until about 5 or 6 for me.

About 12-16 months sitting in a baby seat on neighbours table watching their daughter in the garden . Left that house when I was 17 months old , I went back at age 20 or 21 for the first time and instinctively knew the way round the street , very strange !

I remember my bottle being taken away for the last time because I was chewing the teat and my Mum was scared I would choke, I was 2/3.

I think I was 2 or 3, there was a helicopter tree behind the shed in the garden, I remember sitting under it and picking up the seeds and throwing them upwards. Quite innocent, until I realised I was covered in red ants and started crying.

I must have been about 2 and talking about my eyes being my favourite part of my face. Around the same time, I remember my mum laughing because I was talking about teethbrushes.

My most vivid memories though are the tines where my mam & dad were arguing, hitting each other and throwing things around the kitchen and my sibling and I were sitting in the dark, too afraid to move to even turn the light on. I remember the night they split up for good like it was yesterday. I was only 3, nearly 4, and was so afraid! I'm glad they did though!

Sitting on a beach eating a custard donut.

Apparently it’s from a holiday when I was 2 or 3.

Sitting by the window in the living room, aged around 3. Saw Mum walk into the room then split into 2 people and reform as one again. I had a squint. She was telling me I had to have an operation on my eye because of the squint.
Have several memories about the operation and recovery - in the days when Mum was not allowed to stay with the child. Not pleasant.

I must have been about 18 months old, I remember being at a service station somewhere up the motor way, sitting in my pushchair in a restaurant/cafe and my mum was very cosy with a strange man who wasn't my dad. I remember feeling very confused and anxious and not really understanding why. Mum and dad were divorced by the time I was 2 and she and the man who isn't my dad have been together ever since.

Qmy first would have been about 3, but I don't know if it is a false memory. My next memory I was about 5 ish and I was having my hair done for a ballet class, that I know is a true memory.

I remember my first house, a duvet I loved on the bed. I remember my mum buying a sugar cane and unpacking it at the table and sucking it. I must have been about 3/4.

My very first memory was of our ginger kitten Crackers jumping on my pram. I could only have been around 18 months as we sadly lost him soon after.

Next memory was being utterly terrified in hospital for an eye operation. I was three and a half and disgusted that I was in a cot with bars (had been in a proper bed since I was 2) And a couple of the nurses were vile sadists. Parents were only allowed to visit twice a week and when mine left one of the nurses told me she would stick her little gold safety pin in me if I didn't stop crying! 62 years later I still have the odd nightmare over that!

I remember the day my brother was born, I was 2 years 8 months. Don't know if I have any memories were before then as I can't date them.

Sitting at the table eating baked beans with a spoon, and my cousin who lived next door but one, ran in saying excitedly " It's Christmas Eve! " I must have been about three.

I have many memories from age 2. I think this is much more usual than those people who remember nothing before they were 5 or older.
Trauma can wipe away early memories.

I feel like I remember going to bed excited the night before my 3rd birthday and have grown up with this memory but now I look back and think would I really remember something like that and would a 3 year old be excited about their birthday. Anyway other than that my other earliest memory is of my actual 3rd birthday, I was crying because I didn't want my Mr Blobby birthday cake cut

Sitting in the shopping trolley going round Sainsburys with my dad.

In fact another early memory of mine, I can't remember what age I would have been I assume around 2, my dad coming to pick me up and I have a vivid image in my head of my bag sitting with a packet of nappies. The nappies had a cartoon dinosaur on the packaging and in the past I have searched Google to see if I can see them or if I've made them up. This would have been early 90s.