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laundry_queen

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48. That's really interesting

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 11:10 PM

Feb 2016

I've always wondered why I had such clear memories from such a ridiculously young age (I pretty much remember everything from 18 months on, and have many memories before that even, back to 6 months old). My parents were almost OCD with their daily routines so perhaps that is why. I am not a person who likes routine, and my 4 kids are 'normal' and have memories for the most part that start when they started school. I'm pretty sure I'm not that much more unusual or more intelligent than my kids are, lol. The routine thing makes sense.

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What's the only thing you can't recall in life [View all] malaise Feb 2016 OP

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I have great memories of the 70s and can recall most of them malaise Feb 2016 #16

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My time at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans.... daleanime Feb 2016 #3

You folks are cracking me up here malaise Feb 2016 #15

My mother. In_The_Wind Feb 2016 #4

I'm assuming she died while you were young malaise Feb 2016 #17

The silly woman left me when I was 18 months old. In_The_Wind Feb 2016 #19

Damn that is hard malaise Feb 2016 #22

My first four years of life. MineralMan Feb 2016 #5

My first memory is at age three malaise Feb 2016 #8

Same Here ProfessorGAC Feb 2016 #30

That's really interesting laundry_queen Feb 2016 #48

Four or five is average but some of us have earlier memories malaise Feb 2016 #60

ROFL malaise Feb 2016 #6

Our birth? jwirr Feb 2016 #7

No malaise Feb 2016 #10

That's for real malaise Feb 2016 #18

Okay. I am looking forward to the answer. jwirr Feb 2016 #25

Answer coming up at 3.30ET :-) n/t malaise Feb 2016 #26

My death. Solly Mack Feb 2016 #9

LOL malaise Feb 2016 #11

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Wow! malaise Feb 2016 #23

the present moment? n/t femmedem Feb 2016 #21

LOL malaise Feb 2016 #24

sleep? femmedem Feb 2016 #28

Interesting malaise Feb 2016 #31

Scott Walker. Gidney N Cloyd Feb 2016 #29

Wrong answer but you win the thread malaise Feb 2016 #32

I get brain farts. Does that count? dmr Feb 2016 #33

Sorry malaise Feb 2016 #34

The answer malaise Feb 2016 #35

Ah! horseshoecrab Feb 2016 #37

Ha! Thanks for the afternoon fun, Malaise! n/t femmedem Feb 2016 #38

You're welcome malaise Feb 2016 #39

Indeed ... and that's a very good thing. In_The_Wind Feb 2016 #43

In that same way, can physical pleasure be recalled? Gidney N Cloyd Feb 2016 #44

True - but you can remember the shock and disruption that physical pain causes csziggy Feb 2016 #47

Yep you can remember a lot around the pain malaise Feb 2016 #57

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I don't remember, I don't recall I got no memory of anything at all MagickMuffin Feb 2016 #40

Very nice - Who are you? malaise Feb 2016 #41

I don't recall (ad nauseam) MagickMuffin Feb 2016 #42

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ROFL malaise Feb 2016 #58

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The things I actually did. HassleCat Feb 2016 #52

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Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah malaise Feb 2016 #65

My earliest memories go back to shortly before I was two. SheilaT Feb 2016 #56

That's amazing malaise Feb 2016 #66

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Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah malaise Feb 2016 #67

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