A Theory On "Childhood Amnesia"
By J.N.R Dutton
@jnrdutton (3447)
United States
February 10, 2021 7:51pm CST
I think I know why we forget our earliest memories, when our brains are super young, we just don't have the mental maturity to put our memories in a coherent context, and thus they are easily lost.
As the brain matures & logic plays a larger role in our lives, we become better able to form more coherent, and therefore longer lasting memories.
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@RasmaSandra (97908)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
11 Feb 21
You are right, however, I can remember some very early things and even know every detail of the apartment my parents lived in when I was just born
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@RasmaSandra (97908)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
11 Feb 21
@jnrdutton I really do I was in that apartment with my parents until I could just about toddle and then we got a larger apartment right across this large square hallway and it was in that other apartment that I actually grew up and we stayed there until I was nine. And if I think carefully on it I even remember some details but of course more about the second apartment than the first.
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@jnrdutton (3447)
• United States
11 Feb 21
@RasmaSandra Highly superior autobiographical memory is considered like a superpower, since it's so rare, so you are gifted I guess 
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@RasmaSandra (97908)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
11 Feb 21
@jnrdutton I highly developed my imagination as an only child and could also put myself into a world of my own and my memory helps me greatly with my writing,
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@kaylachan (84711)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
11 Feb 21
Well, that's pretty much true. As children, our minds are like spounages. We're taking in so much information all at once. Our brains are only designed to handle so much information at any given time. Long term memories take a while to form, but can easily be forgotten, if we no longer seem to have a use for them.
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@LindaOHio (222285)
• United States
11 Feb 21
I have memories from when I was still in a crib. Just bits and pieces but still...
@jnrdutton (3447)
• United States
11 Feb 21
I have a single memory of when my little sister was in HER crib, I am three years older than her, it's one of my most enduring memories and one of my earliest. @LindaOHio
I remember it b/c there was a trauma connected to the memory (my bio parents fighting, before their divorce, though I don't remember what was said exactly) & I was calming her down.
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