How much do you remember from your childhood?

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I'm just wondering if I am abnormal. Obviously my parents I remember quite a lot about, not the day to day stuff, just random isolated moments. The thing is I, have 4 sisters and tbh remember very very little about them from before about 10. Pretty sparsely after that, my next oldest sister was 7 years older than me, so I do remember little things about her living at home.

The first memory of even her was when I was about 7.

earliest memory at 2 can be easily dated - birth of my sister. and quite a lot of memories after too.

my DH claims to remember almost nothing before age 6, which I find so odd.

but then I do also think it odd when people take 2 and 3 year olds to disney etc for 'making memories' when there is a 90% chance the child won't remember.

Can remember loads....clothes, toys, people, places, events, houses, furniture....

First memory is sitting in my pram with my mum pushing me to a local park and a squirrel jumped onto my pram from a tree then ran into the park, would have been about 12 months old. My mum confirmed that it did actually happen.

Too much. From about the age of two and a half.

I remember my whole life from being small. I find it scary to think I could be any other way. People say they don't remember being little etc. I remember being every age from about 6 distinctly, the school, who was there, what I did day to day.

Not much detail - more like snippets really. I often think it would be cool if we could just rewind our memories to a point in time, and recall it in great detail.

A lot, from about 18 months. I don't forget things in general though. I can remember whole conversations from years and years ago, about very boring things.

I remember a huge amount. My partner remembers very little about his.

I think it's really variable, doesn't really mean anything, it's just different brains working differently.

Like now my short term memory is terrible (probably because it's clogged up with childhood/teenage memories). But my partner has a great memory for day-to-day stuff.

Apologies if this isn't quite the tone but as I understand it those with calm relatively uneventful childhoods with a good routine will remember very little. Those of us with, ahem, more interesting childhoods where lots changed and there were more stressful situations will remember more. I remember a lot and it wasn't always great.

Quite a lot, remember playing with friends in the Avenue - distinctly remember the things we got up to, in quite detail. My best childhood friend has an amazing memory, much more than me. Sadly I remember my parents constant fighting, my dad being arrested (not for violence, not linked) and my mum refusing to let us stay with him overnight when really she was the biggest danger to us with severe mental health issues. I have a spoon from a childhood set I had and it was missing for many years but I found it again, and I’m literally triggered by making a cup of tea. I need to hide it, don’t want to throw it out

Vivid memory of being in my cot and pulling at the edges of the fresh wallpaper through the bars. Decades later I told my grandmother who said I was about 14/15 months old. I described the wallpaper (little red and white flowers) and she said she'd had to redo the entire room a few weeks later (due to my efforts and not being able to get matching paper ) so a real memory I think.

We lived in the same house from being a baby to 13 so I have lots of memories from then but it's hard to put a specific timeline on things.
I have vague memories of my school nursery and better memories of my reception classes and upwards. I have memories from holidays but and I have lots of memories of pubs!! We spent almost every weekend in one pub or another.

I sometimes think an unhappy childhood would be more memorable than a happy one.

Don't think I've used 'memorable' correctly, but you know what I mean...

I have a terrible memory in general, but I remember quite a lot from my childhood, all of it is bad.. Not sure if there's something in that?

An awful lot unfortunately was not a great childhood but has made me feel he person I am today and that is the one positive

made me the

I can remember quite a lot from age 5-6 but not in any great detail.

I remember a hell of a lot from the age of 2, very very vividly.. various incidents, toys, smells but especially music!
Certain songs and smells instantly take me back, and at 58 i am still overwhelmed by sadness in those moments.