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Post by mslo79 on Oct 21, 2018 9:33:08 GMT
Short of something dramatic I am surprised people would claim to remember much when they are like 2-3-4-5 years old or so, especially much under the 5-ish age range as I think that's really pushing it already. but who knows, maybe it's me as it seems my sister tends to remember more from her childhood (say the single digit ages) than I do in general from what I have noticed (we are less than 2 years apart in age. I am 39 and she's 37 right now). I honestly don't recall THE earliest memory I had as I just mostly remember little odds and ends here and there. but come to think of it I can remember standing up in my dads truck a bit back in the day in the seat while going down the road (this would probably have been roughly mid-1980's). so I had to be pretty small but it's hard to say how old I was at that time but I would imagine probably no older than 5-ish? just given the distance from the seat to the roof of the truck is not much so that sort of limits how old one can be to stand fully or thereabouts.
Yeah, they say peoples memory can be odd like that. like what one thinks happened might not be entirely accurate etc especially when that much time has passed.
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Oct 23, 2018 17:23:00 GMT
Falling off playground a merry go round when i was 4 or 5 and scraping my legs and arms, first time I knew what pain was. Reading this triggered a memory of an amusement park ride that was supposed to be a caterpillar, I think, but I remember going around and around, very slowly. I must have been 3 at the time. I remember something earlier; my dad had built a ramp up to the front screen door so I and my dog could peek over it and watch the horses in the pasture across the street. I was in diapers. And I remember looking up the basement stairs, waiting for my dad to come pick me up; the perspective was so different! Then, when I was four, a very famous tornado happened close to where we lived - my best friend was three and she remembers being in the bathtub with her mom and brother, taking cover - and my mom and dad took me to our basement for safety, but from what I didn't know. So I asked what a tornado was and they said it was spinning air in the sky. I looked up into the rafters of the basement, saw a swirling spider web and said, look, there's one now!!! |
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Post by Salzmank on Oct 23, 2018 18:58:25 GMT
Ah! rachelcarson1953, you’ve triggered an early memory for me as well: I had to be extremely young, as my cousin (who is only nine months’ younger than I) had not yet learnt to speak. I remember being in the house with her and her parents, and she was screaming at the top of the stairs while I stared up at her. I also remember a Tweety Bird rug at the bottom of the stairs. Heh—earliest memory of cugina mia, or as she was known by the multitudes at the time, “wolf girl.” |
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Oct 23, 2018 19:14:51 GMT
Clearly this is something I can't possibly remember myself, but I've heard the story so many times...
When I was being 'expected', the little boy next door was told that I would be 'there' soon. So after I was born, he came over to my bedroom window and asked my mother if I could 'come out and play', lol!
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