I keep reading people (here and elsewhere) saying that they don't remember their childhood. I've been trying to think about whether or not I can remember it, or if I should be able to remember a lot more than my name, where I went to school and what the school looked like.
Also, I just remembered a few days ago my friend from little school, a really good friend I had but he moved away near the end of it, then I moved to secondary school and spent years having no idea that someone who was essentially the most important non-family person in my life even existed. So its nice remembering that I had friends back then and did normal kid stuff.
But since I have no reason to think anything traumatic happened at or before that point, I wonder if I actually have a perfectly normal memory of childhood and that everybody can only remember bits and pieces, (like "oh, my best friend moved house and his new house was really big, or that one really awful thing I said to someone once, whatever it once).
What *should* I be able to remember from before I was 12?
(I'll try to engage with replies to this post not not wake up tomorrow pretending I never made it I promise)
Also, I just remembered a few days ago my friend from little school, a really good friend I had but he moved away near the end of it, then I moved to secondary school and spent years having no idea that someone who was essentially the most important non-family person in my life even existed. So its nice remembering that I had friends back then and did normal kid stuff.
But since I have no reason to think anything traumatic happened at or before that point, I wonder if I actually have a perfectly normal memory of childhood and that everybody can only remember bits and pieces, (like "oh, my best friend moved house and his new house was really big, or that one really awful thing I said to someone once, whatever it once).
What *should* I be able to remember from before I was 12?
(I'll try to engage with replies to this post not not wake up tomorrow pretending I never made it I promise)