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What is your earliest memory?

house_cat — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 04:22:38 GMT

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ECBG — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 04:27:48 GMT

About 3 years ago, I asked my aunt about the kitchen of the house I lived in until I was three. I perfectly described the kitchen in detail to her. Neither of my parents are living. It was from the perspective of sitting in a high chair.

I have always been highly visual.

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house_cat — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 04:39:52 GMT

In my earliest memory, I was in my crib. My mom was taking my stuffed animal because it was dirty and she had to wash it. She was trying to convince me to accept a different one, but I wasn't buying it, lol. I remember being very upset about it. I must've been less than two years old.

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Carmie — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 04:51:10 GMT

I was an early talker. My mother said I was talking at around 15 months old. I can remember back to around that time...I think because I was speaking, I had a way of remembering.

I remember going into an electrical store with my parents. The owner asked my mother my name, and I told him. He was amazed that I could talk and gave me a ceramic bunny night light. I loved that bunny and used it for years.

i also remember sleeping in a crib in my parents bedroom. I could reach a dresser where my father had a cigar humidor and matches. I remember eating the tops off of the matches until I got caught and things were moved out of my reach.

I was 23 months when my brother was born. I remember staying with my aunt for a few days. An airplane flew over her house while I was sitting in a high chair and it was loud. I remember how frightened I was was. I also remember a secret hiding place in the eves in my aunts attic. She had antique dolls in there.

As an adult, I mentioned that hiding place and she was shocked. She also verified that a plane flew over her house and screamed and cried and would not calm down when I stayed at her house. I was only her her attic that one time.

I remember a lot of things that happened when I was preschool aged. My family has always said that I was gifted. I have a memory like a trap.

I can fill out a seating chart of all the children I went to school with from first to eighth grade.

Too bad most of what I remember is not useful, and my husband hates it. He wishes I would forget a lot of things.

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blackhole99 — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 05:30:33 GMT

The earliest memory I can verify is when I started Kindergarten, so I guess I was about 5 years old.

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kelshar — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 06:28:49 GMT

I believe as an infant. I remember crawling on the floor in the hallway of my house and beside me was another baby crawling with me and we were laughing. I think I was so happy to have a playmate my age, someone just like me.

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aubnwa01 — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 06:39:07 GMT

It was in the bathroom of the house we moved from when I was about 3. I guess I was constipated, though i only remember my mom & my aunt decided that they needed to give me an enema & I was having none of it & threw a conniption fit, screaming, crying & fighting them every step of the way. Not sure if I'd had an enema before that & didn't want another one or what, but I guess it was traumatic to my little self. They finally decided it was more trouble than it was worth, I guess & gave up & let me go on my way! I lived to tell, 65 or so years later! lol ( I still don't think I've ever had an enema! )

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labloverrr — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 08:10:55 GMT

Another one here where my earliest memory was kindergarten, the first day to be exact. Both my parents worked, so I had to walk to school on my own. My mom drilled me that morning on what to do and the proper way to cross streets, she said if I had any problems to ask someone; she actually may have did a dry run with me but I don't have any memory of that (this was way back in the 60's 😲). I remember waiting at the stoplight for it to change to green, got to school and had no idea where my class was, so I did what my mom said and asked someone, an older student walked by me and I asked "do you know where my room is?". She was sweet and did find which room I was supposed to be in 😁.

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Nataliesgramma — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 10:43:18 GMT

I think 4 or 5 years old....there are alot of things that I remember happening then.....Kindergarten....Christmas....

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Gorgf — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 12:11:56 GMT

I also recalled the taking away the teddy bears to wash. One's name was Brownie, a brown bear. I also had a Panda. In the days before dryers I recall my Mother putting them in a warm oven to try and dry them. I remember looking in the oven at my bears.

I am an only child and recall looking out my bedroom window feeling lonely and wanting someone to play with. I was under four years old in that house.

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Harpa — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 12:35:43 GMT

My earliest vivid memory is at 18 months. I was in the crib and my brother (4) and sister (2) were all excited. They wanted to go out to play in the hurricane. (Hazel) I wanted to, also. I remember seeing some of the commotion of the winds & rain out the windows.

I remember moving into the new house around the same age. The living room was so big!

Sometimes I get a faint, fleeting memory of actually being inside my mother's womb.

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violann — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 12:59:19 GMT

I can pinpoint a couple of mine by date.

One was being terrified by 4th of July fireworks a few weeks before I turned 3.

Another was sitting with my mother in our living room, listening to Uncle Don on the radio and waiting for my dad to come home from work. We had a burgundy colored couch made of picky upholstery fabric.

A third, the geography of that house, playing on the enclosed front porch and rabbit hutches in the back yard. My dad worked shifts during WW2, and men in those jobs were “supposed” to eat meat because the work was so taxing.

Meat at the butcher shops was scarce and pricey, so rabbit it was.

Although I remember a whole lot about that I sure wish I could remember where I put my car keys yesterday.........

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Desertdi — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 13:04:13 GMT

Good grief.............I have to use a "day planner" to remember what I did yesterday.

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chrystaltree — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 13:17:30 GMT

I always thought it was a dream but according to my mom, it was a true memory. Even the details and I was around 2 years old, which she judges from cat. The cat in my dream passed away before my brother was born, her second child, 2 years after me.

We are in a small room, like a den or family room. My mom and I are sitting on a stuffed couch that has a crochet or knit throw on it. My mom is watching a black and white screen tv. The tv is one of those big wood console type tv's, I remember the atenna. There are lace curtains at the window, it's night time. I am on the couch with my head in my mother's lap. There is a big orange and white cat rolled up, sleeping in the corner of the room. I said something to my mom about the cat, I don't remember what but I remember her saying "let her sleep, she'll play tomorrow".

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Drlinda — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 13:35:09 GMT

My first memory was a new pair of red shoes at about 3 years old. I have been buying red shoes ever since.

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cherry — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 13:36:37 GMT

I think it was stealing my brother's baby bottle. I was a toddler, and he was propped on the bed ,with a bottle.

He started to cry, and mama came to see, and laughed ,and told me, I mustn't do this to him. We are 1 year apart. I think I was about 18 months

I don't know why I remember this ,of all things , but, I do

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jlkz — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 13:41:22 GMT

I was still in my crib at my grandparents place. I was angry that everybody was downstairs having a party because my uncle was home from the war so I started to scratch or color on the wall above my crib. When my mom came in to check on me, she was followed by my aunt, her sister.

Many years later, my mom was amazed at the details of what I remembered....they were exactly as I described them, never having heard the story before.

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jlkz — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 13:43:36 GMT

@aubnwa01

We could have been sisters ! Same situation !

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Eileen in Virginia — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 13:46:48 GMT

I remember walking down our front sidewalk with my grandfather (Poppy). I must have been about 15 months old because he was holding my hand to steady me. I was wearing a white dress and he wore gray slacks and a white dress shirt. He would have been about 83 years old then, so we were the oldest and youngest members of the family.

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hayseed00 — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 15:06:00 GMT

@house_cat I was around 3 yrs old. I remember sitting on the floor of my Great Grandparents living room playing with a beautiful red barn my great grandpa made for me to put my plastic horses in. I was horse crazy even at that age. I still have that red barn,