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Does anyone else remember so little about their life?

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Woodywasatwat · 28/03/2023 14:02

It worries me sometimes.

I have hardly any memories especially of childhood.

An old school friend is currently cleaning out her parents loft and is tagging me in a sorts of childhood photos, things that look like school events and trips, plays.

I’m there, sometimes dressed up in costumes but I have no memory of the event at all. It could be someone else.

I have this all the time. Cleaning out my loft once I found old tickets for gigs. I saw Blur and Greenday in the 90s - cannot remember seeing them but when I asked the friend I would have gone with she looked at me like I was crazy and couldn’t believe I didn’t remember (I was 15, too young to have been out of it on anything!)

Why don’t I remember things?

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AnOldCynic · 30/03/2023 07:12

Highdaysandholidays1 · 29/03/2023 22:11

@WhichPage my family can't understand how I don't know if I've seen a film before unless it's very distinctive/some reason I watched it twice. I often watch thing and can be 30 min in and a very faint bell rings and I think, oh perhaps I have seen this before! If I read a book 3 or more times like Agatha Christie novels eventually I'll learn who the killer is and then not read it again, but just once wouldn't be enough.

The good part of all this is you can know you enjoyed reading a particular book and then read it again having forgotten most of it! Even twists.

I could have written this word for word!

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