Why many adults fully forgets their childhood memories

I am like that one you mentioned too Albert. I barely have memories of me when i was 5 years under. I guess, i don't have a retentive memory anymore. I must accept that aging has little by little taken its toll on some of my memories.

wow, you have a very good memory. Lucky for you. But as for me, Im one of those people who quite fully forget their memory when they were below age 10. I don't really remember every details that happened to me. I just remember some things, but not fully remembering them. If i knew how to write some diary before, i could have so that i would still remember things i did before. And i think until now, I still have some troubles in my memory. That's why i write them. So i won't forget things.

I think today people's pressure is so high. They have no time to memorize the past. They have to look forward to the future. They have many things to concern about at present and future. So they don't have the time to think about the past. As time goes by, our childhood memories will be unclear and then it will be gone. This is why we need to take photos and videos to help us to remember the past:) I love China

One of the major reasons for lose in memory can be trauma. The other reason can be a brain injury. It is not all that uncommon for people to forget things from their childhood. I was a very ill child and many of my memories are sketchy and some totally missing that other family members tell me about. Asthmatics suffer a lot from memory loss because of the oxygen levels that sometimes are interrupted due to their illness. I'm sure there are other illness that can cause it also. Some medications can have memory loss as a side effect. When I had brain surgery, they were very sure I'd have short term memory loss, and they are right. I do. Hope that helps you understand the so called phenomena. Thanks for the discussion.

that's actually great that you still remember, this is probably because you had great childhood memories. while your friend might have bad childhood memories. this is what you call selective amnesia. some people intentionally or unintentionally forget things or events from their past that are very distressing to them. I can still also remember childhood memories, some good and some bad. but since they are not very distressing to me i keep them in my memory

may they wants to become mature, or may be they lack some of the mind capabilities which is required to remember.i felt sometimes i too forgot some of my bestest childhood one and always looking forward to get them all.

I can remember some things from when I was three, and some from ages older than that. I may remember a little bit before I turned three. Maybe they had such a boring life they do not want to remember what happened when they were little.

I remember some moments of my life when i was 3 years old and i also fondly remember my first day at school. I think the wonderful memories in our lives just don't fade away from our mind.

Because they had a bad child hood or something happened to them that their mind has shut out. Something I can relate to. Like someone said about "selective amnesia". My memories are in bits and pieces and very foggy. I wouldn't want to remember the things my family tells me about it.

When you're old and gone through many phases of life, in order for you to ive full is to eliminate much of the baggage s that belong to the past. Most adults do this in order to be fully connected to the present. It is a selective memory that help them live as normal as they could. You must be young now, things would change when years have been added in your life. Don't expect people to remember what you remember because they may have closed that part of their life and would not want to remember. Or some really have poor memories and there's really no significant things to remember.

Hello, Sometimes people wants to forget the memories when they are still kids. Maybe they have a reason here and they dont want to talk it anymore. I studied it in psychology and our professor explain it to us. Yeah, me too i can still remember what you remember except all the name of my neighboor.

Hmmm...Maybe because there is not much for him to remember during thos time of his years! Anyways, I think people tend to forget their childhood due to the type of society we are in. This society now is very harsh and is moving fast. People tend to live by adjusting to the growing changes and demands of the world that they don't have the time to think of happy memories anymore. People are more inclined to succeed in this fast changing time, making them more focused on working out their goals and looking into the future. Hence, they are forgetting the past in the process. What do you think? Is my explanation sensible enough? Just my two cents!

those to forgots easily seems to be suffering from "short term memory loss" as life is too small so how can they forgot the normal icidents. hey, like you i too remember the childhood memories as they are sweet. those games which i played, those innocent talks how can anyone forgot. to my opinion its depends on the person enviroment for his memory.