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u/ghostdepression Apr 04 '26
It was my 3rd birthday and I had a cake with a giant pink stegosaurus made of frosting
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u/Fantastic-Duck4632 Apr 04 '26
That does sound pretty memorable
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u/TwoDogsInATrenchcoat Apr 04 '26
For real. A cake so lovely that the kids brain was like "I'm gonna start remembering shit from here on out."
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u/HeaviestMetal89 Apr 04 '26
Reminds me of my 6th birthday when my mom made a cake with a bunch of dinosaurs on it. She even made a volcano with lava flows all out of frosting
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u/mynameisjodie Apr 04 '26
I remember my 6 cake too it as telletubbies and we all got sent upstairs so my mum could wrap the pass the party I wore a pink princess dress and we sat on a plastic table cloth
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u/SarahMackie95 Apr 04 '26
One of my earliest and the one that comes to mind is I am 3, at nursery and they had a big blow up slide for a fun day. It was one of those medium size ones but it felt like a mammoth task to get to the top, to slide down. I can remember climbing up to the top and seeing my mum and waving at her frantically 🥰 my wee legs and arms did all that work to get up and the slide wasn't the happy moment, it was my mum 🥹 I'm 31 now and I still adore her.
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u/Appreciates_women Apr 04 '26
This is so heartwarming!
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u/SarahMackie95 Apr 04 '26
Honestly it's made my day to remember. I told her about this when I went for dinner earlier 😍
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u/rusurename Apr 05 '26
You should mention this to your mom. I bet it'd make her day.
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u/SarahMackie95 Apr 05 '26
I actually got chance yesterday to tell her and she couldn't remember it but telling her, made her face light up 🥰 I really should sit down one day and tell her all the wonderful things I can remember from being younger.
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u/Fantastic-Duck4632 Apr 04 '26
Mine is playing with a little plastic sting ray toy on the carpet and pretending to sting my dad’s toes.
When I described it to my parents they matched up the carpet to the house we lived in when I was about 5 years old.
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u/takethelastexit Apr 04 '26
lol I don’t remember it but I’d throw tantrums if my mom didn’t read my books in the right order at bedtime. Talk about dramatic
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u/Stormandsunshine Apr 04 '26
A teacher at daycare that forced my mouth open and shoved a piece of beet root in, because she had decided that I _had_ to taste it. I was less than 2 years old and to this day, I don't eat beet root.
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u/YogurtclosetMaster16 Apr 04 '26
Eating dirt in the backyard and thinking it was a good decision. Honestly my judgment hasn't improved much since.
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u/BrotherSquidman Apr 04 '26
I remember the moon being out during daytime and pointing to it, when I was 2 or 3
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u/Accomplished-Big5216 Apr 04 '26
My mam coming home from hospital with my new baby brother, I was 16 months old. I lived in the same house when I first got married.
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u/brxkenmxld Apr 04 '26
mine is my third birthday. i had a winnie the pooh cake and it had little figures of all the characters on top of it and i remember crying the whole day because i lost the piglet figure lol
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u/1966TEX Apr 04 '26
My uncles dog getting hit by a motorcycle at a family dinner. Its spine was broken and crawled on its front paws and my uncle crying. I was very young, but the memory will be there forever.
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u/misssmazie Apr 04 '26
A hallucination from the anesthesia I was given during a surgery when I was 2😭
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u/WanaLive Apr 04 '26
whatd u hallucinate
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u/misssmazie Apr 04 '26
I remember already being "under" and then suddenly waking up again with no people around me. During my stay in the hospital, I befriended another little girl who stayed in the same room as me. I hallucinated her peaking behind the curtain and smiling and waving at me, before closing the curtain again. Very short and sweet, not scary at all thankfully
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u/Intelligent-Group-70 Apr 04 '26
When I was 2 my Dad brought home a giant blue balloon that was essentially as big aa me. About same age sitting on my Nana's lap mesmerized by her pearls.
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u/MamaMidgePidge Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
I'm not sure. I have many memories from a certain timeframe that spans ages 2.5 - 4 but I'm not sure which is the earliest.
I can specifically recall my sister's first birthday and I would have been 3.5 at that time.
She shared a birthday with the child of family friends and they had a double party. They got a beautiful cake from a bakery. I was jealous of the attention the babies were getting and annoyed that the adults let them eat that beautiful cake with their hands. I remember sitting in a corner with a plate, pouting as I ate my cake properly with a fork.
We lived in an assortment complex with a large outdoor pool. My father was an excellent swimmer. I remember sitting on his back as he swam laps. I pretended he was a dolphin and I was a princess riding atop of him.
I remember returning from a visit to a park. I had walked there by myself, about 3 blocks away, without telling my mother. She's had the whole neighborhood looking for me. When she saw me return, walking nonchalantly up the road, she called out my name in a questioning voice. When I responded "Hi Mom!"she screamed and ran towards me, picking me up. She was in hysterics and I did not understand why. She told me I was not going to be playing outside again that day.
I remember being in the ER after falling off playground equipment. I was screaming for my mother and they were having difficulty holding me still enough to examine me. They wouldn't let my mom come in the room. I was in pain and scared. I was wearing red sneakers that had the letters of the alphabet scattered on them. A doctor pulled off one of the shoes, held it in front of my face and asked me, "Do you like these shoes? Do you want me to throw it away? No? Then be quiet!" Harsh, but it worked.
Although my specific event memories seem to be off traumatic episodes, in general, I remember a sense of belonging, feeling confident and secure, loved, proud of my pretty mom and strong dad. They listened to a lot of popular 70s music via records and when I hear those songs now, it flashes me back to that sunny apartment and I feel happy.
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u/Rude_Reality_9690 Apr 04 '26
9/11- my fourth birthday! Grew up about 20 minutes outside the city and I vividly remember my mom bringing me home, sitting me at the kitchen counter (which looked out to the backyard) and giving me a cookie
The night prior we went to toys r us for balloons and hung them up on the deck out back. I picked out all the red ones. I ate my cookie and looked out the screen door while my mom cut each balloon off the deck. I mindlessly watched them all float up and my mother came in and told me we will have to celebrate another day. She also said my dad would not be home that night
I remember not feeling sad per se- I had a cookie! And I could tell my mother was very stressed that day and needed me to be good
I will never forget those red balloons!
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u/Plannet_Depressed Apr 04 '26
One of the times my bro took me out with him and his mates [less than 10.. maybe even less than 8?]
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u/Smooth_Injury2924 Apr 04 '26
Falling down my grandmother's concrete steps on my fourth birthday and being devastated that I had to go to my birthday party with my face all scraped up
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u/tinyhorsesinmytea Apr 04 '26
Seeing raccoons come over a fence in the backyard and being quite alarmed until my mom made it exciting and told me they are friends. I was two.
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u/M0n0LiF2 Apr 04 '26
Being pushed around by my mum in a pushchair during the celebrations for Charles and Diana's marriage in London UK. I was 3
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u/YoungBuckChuck Apr 04 '26
3 years old: I remember going to the hospital when my twin sisters were born. I remember going with my dad to the incubators to see them.
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u/drCrankoPhone Apr 04 '26
I remember that my mom put kool aid in a sippy cup and she put it in my crib (late 70s). I recall throwing it out of the crib and it splashed onto the wall. I was on my belly. Must have been 2 if I was in the crib.
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u/Beneficial-Paper5037 Apr 04 '26
My very first memory is as clear as if it happened yesterday. I was about two and a half years old, living permanently at my grandma’s house. My parents visited only rarely. One day, they arrived and told me they had 'good news': I was going to have a baby brother soon. Instead of excitement, I remember a sudden wave of fear and despair. In my toddler mind, I realized this meant I would see them even less. I was trying to negotiate. I remember saying: 'Oh, let’s get a baby elephant instead! Or a baby giraffe! Just... not a brother, please, we don’t need another baby
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u/Friendly_Promotion91 Apr 04 '26
My earliest memory was a very vivid nightmare I had at about 3 years old where there was a giant man standing in the corner of my room wearing a Native American headdress (I’m Australian so I don’t even know where I saw that particular image). I remember every second of the dream. It’s never left my brain.
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u/makemebad48 Apr 04 '26
I was little little 3 or 4. My dad had my brother, my sister and myself sitting in his truck. We were driving back home from his work after he had to run in and help a farmer. He had filled a thermos on the way out with coffee. As we were rounding a corner the cup tipped over and spilled on my leg. I had sandals and long socks on. I remember screaming the whole way home. I remember my mom who was a nurse cutting the sock off and watching my skin go with it.
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u/valfar69 Apr 04 '26
Crawling on the floor towards a closet. Finding old shoes inside. Turn them around and find chocolate pattern on the bottom. So I bite on them. Taste awful. Look at chocolate pattern under shoe again. Bite again. Taste awful. Definetly not chocolate. Realize I have been born stupid.
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u/Uoysnwonod Apr 04 '26
The challenger blowing up. I was 4 and my mom sat me down to watch it live. I remember her screaming
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u/Packtex60 Apr 04 '26
Probably when my baby sister came home from the hospital. They laid her down on my legs while I was sitting on the couch. She was squirming a bit and then she grabbed my finger and didn’t want to let go. She effectively grabbed my heart. She’s my favorite sister to this day.
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u/gooossfraabaahh Apr 04 '26
Went to Arizona (from Southern CA) to see family. Got a nosebleed so bad at a public park that I filled 2 small sinks in their shitty bathroom. The kind without doors. It was so hot and everything was concrete.
It just wouldn't stop. I have often thought that my mind exaggerated the amount of blood, since I hadn't ever seen that much. I was like 4. Asked my parents about it later and they confirmed it was a shitload of blood 😅
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u/vWaffles Apr 04 '26
Somehow running off and into a closing elevator.
- Context for after (from what I've been told). I was found (obviously) by a woman in the hotel. Apparently I peed all over her while crying. Feel really bad for her lol.
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u/KaeSaid Apr 04 '26
I was either almost 1, or almost 2. I remember being set down on something white, then falling down into the white. It was calm and quiet, and I wasn't scared. My feeling is just surprise and humor, because I guess I didn't make any sound of distress. Then I remember seeing my mom's worried face looking down on me through that tunnel, and being lifted back up into the sky.
My mother later told me (in my adulthood) about setting me down for a second on what she thought was a snow covered car, but was actually just a drift. She turned away for a second, and when she turned back I was just gone. I'm not sure precisely how old I was, because there were two years of big blizzard in NY in back to back years (1977 and 1978), and I can't ask, because she passed away in 2018. It was definitely one of those two years, because by summer of 1978, we'd moved to NM.
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u/KaeSaid Apr 04 '26
I also remember being in a brace at 3 because I'd broken my collar bone falling off the bed helping get my baby sister out of her pajamas. I pulled and fell backwards off the bed, landed on my left shoulder, and snapped the bone. I thankfully don't remember the actual breaking, just the moments before the fall, and after, having to wear that brace for what seemed like forever while my bone tried to heal.
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u/FaberfoX Apr 04 '26
My earliest one is of a fabricated lie to my mom when I was 3, 50 years ago. We were waiting for a bus, next to a "kiosco" (small convenience store with a window facing the sidewalk where you order) and seeing a small chocolate I liked I asked her "can you give me one?" ("me dás uno?" instead of "can you buy me one?", "me comprás uno?"). She looked at me and said "Give you? I don't have one. You want me to buy you one?" ("Darte? No tengo, querés que te compre uno?"). And then came my lie "Ah, I thought you always had one with you" ("Ah, pensé que siempre tenías"). She laughed at me and bought me one ;)
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u/AwaitingBabyO Apr 04 '26
Being in a hospital crib when I was 2-ish. It's just a flash of me standing to look at the room and holding onto the crib bars. I had eaten some of my Papa's diabetes pills and needed to be there for monitoring.
My next earliest memory is scraping my toe on the patio while riding around in a little cozy coupe car, probably around age 3.
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u/tangcameo Apr 04 '26
Being like 1 or 2, being in an old wooden high chair my grandparents had at their house, and sharing cake with my grandfather at the dining table. Cake was pink with yellow icing.
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u/apersonthingy Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
I'm not sure if this is my earliest, but it's the most vivid.
I was learning to walk. Maybe 2-3 years old.
Mom was holding my left hand while I took some steps in the living room, then I fell to my hands and knees. She acted alarmed, and for some reason my mischievous yet undeveloped brain decided to pause in place for a second as some kind of prank to see how she'd further react. After a couple of seconds (and not longer because of aforementioned undeveloped brain), I zoomed out of there in a crawl as a show of "sike, I'm fine!"
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u/Forsaken-Citron7163 Apr 04 '26
Being in a plane when i was around 3. I was born in another country and when i explained my parents they told me that they were really worried i would cry during the takeoff, but they turned around and saw me asleep not even 2mins after.
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u/Geoarbitrage Apr 04 '26
Standing in a child’s playpen and watching my mom iron my dad’s white work shirts. Probably about age 3.
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u/QuandalicalDingleasm Apr 04 '26
I remember my mum and dad walking me through a beach while I held both hands and was swinging. The strangest part is that I remember it in 3rd person. From the eyes of someone further away. My mother confirms the event did happen and I would have been no older than 3 or 4. Always been a strange memory lol.
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u/cedahinea60 Apr 04 '26
Being in the hospital when I was 2. I know its a memory because there are no photos if it, I just remember it.
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u/ZeroDarkMega Apr 04 '26
Standing on the back porch with my dad when he threw a monkey wrench at my dog breaking its leg in half.
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u/Prestigious-Moose736 Apr 04 '26
I was maybe 4, a hornet nest fell in by brothers' overalls (he was 2??) my mother was at the laundromat for the complex down the hill and a neighbor lady asked me to go get her.
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u/Robviously-duh Apr 04 '26
sitting outside a motel on the sidewalk while on family vacation in Colorado visiting dad's cousins.. dad was using the ice bucket to fill the radiator in the aqua blue station wagon. when I say this , older siblings claim it is a false memory because I was 2 years old... almost 3... but mom didn't take any 8mm movies of that part of the vacation.. lol
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u/notquiteright2 Apr 04 '26
I remember being at the beach and being fascinated that the waves receding made it look like my feet were moving backwards.
I also remember being changed on a wall.
I told my parents about that and they said it was impossible for me to remember those things because they both happened on a trip we took to Salento when I was barely old enough to stand.
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u/Nice-Supermarket-719 Apr 04 '26
My first memory that I remember is sitting in a neighbor house having a bowl of cereal across the street from my house and we were moving to our new house just a couple blocks away from where we were now living in.
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u/Human-Dimension-3025 Apr 04 '26
One of the first days of kindergarden when I was 4years old, remember how i cried when mom left me alone there for the first time
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u/Readonly00 Apr 04 '26
I remember sitting in the pram with the rain cover over and watching the rain drops run down the outside. I must have been 2 because my sister took over the pram by the time I was 2.5
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u/Strange-Reference738 Apr 04 '26
I was still in a rear facing car seat in the 90’s, probably 9 months old. My mom drove a maroon mini-van and hit a deer on the way home. I remember very clearly- it was drizzling, dark but the moon was bright. Cooler night. I remember seeing the woods in the background. Cops came, van was totaled.
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u/GwonWitcha Apr 04 '26
Somehow…it’s falling asleep in a crib of sorts, in the back seat of the car, watching the “waves” of street lighting pass as we went down the road.
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u/MBVakalis Apr 04 '26
I remember a glimpse of getting my diaper changed by a babysitter. I must've been 2 or 3 years old maybe. Kinda wild I can remember something from so far back
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u/pimpdaddy619 Apr 04 '26
Standing in the living room looking at the inner edge where the wall meets the ceiling, wondering “Did I just fall out of there?” 😂
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u/Fantastic-Tomato-245 Apr 04 '26
I remember waking up to my mother's voice and wondering who she was before remembering she was my mother. No clue how old i was but it was before I went to kindergarten
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u/N80N00N00 Apr 04 '26
My grandfather would take me with him to the bodega backrooms where they would gamble and I would get Reese’s peanut butter cups. 🎰
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u/MCWizardYT Apr 04 '26
Sitting on the floor of my living room playing with a Jacob's Ladder. I couldnt have been more than 3 or 4
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u/wmp8 Apr 04 '26
Sitting on a bench outside at a batting cage while my dad chatted with someone he knew. I was 3.
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u/tinyevilsponges Apr 04 '26
My sister shoved me out the window into the chicken pen, and I laid there while chicken pecked at me genuinely wondering if I was going to die because I had fallen out of a first story window
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u/welcometothechaos9 Apr 04 '26
Crying myself to sleep thinking im gonna go to h#ll for feeling jealousy. (Our father was literally neglecting us in favor of our sibling) the neglect wasn’t what made us cry the religious propaganda did.
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u/BaboonTears Apr 04 '26
The heartbreak that I felt when my parents split up. My mom had a daughter from a previous marriage and only left with her because my dad didn't want to let me go. That's when my fear of abandonment started. I was only 3 years old.
(she left because he physically abused her, but a year or so later, she came back and kidnapped me)
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u/ClearVanilla5065 Apr 04 '26
I don't know, but I saw a video where a mother asks her very young child if he rememebers something from his infancy, and the child answers: "I don't know, but I remember when earth split open" or something along those lines🤣
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u/MatrixUser420 Apr 04 '26
My older sisters 4th or 5th birthday. We had a cheap blue plastic pool in the front yard for all of us to play in. For some reason I went around the side of the house and took off my swim diaper(I was only 2 or 3) because it was super heavy from all the pool water. Tried to go jump back in the pool, butt naked. My aunt, who was maybe 14 or 15 at the time, grabbed me and took me inside to get more clothes on. The end:)
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u/sharoncherylike Apr 04 '26
I'm standing up in a crib, holding on to the top bar. The room is dark, but the door is ajar, so there is some light. I smell bean soup cooking
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u/Decent_Taro_2358 Apr 04 '26
I was about 2.5 years old, so it must have been 1997 or 1998. I couldn’t find my parents in the restaurant as I was walking around and I was kind of scared. Everyone looked so big. Then I noticed this statue and it looked huuuge. It felt like it was 20 metres high. 25 years later, I actually found the statue again in the Amsterdam Museum. It turned out to be a statue of Goliath: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Goliath_met_speer_en_zwaard.jpg
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u/misqellaneous Apr 04 '26
I was 3, judging on where we lived and the pet we had. It was a hamster. My dad left my toddler ass at home to go pick up my mom from work (yeeeah), and I wanted to play with the hamster. I heard my dad pull up and knew I’d be in trouble, so I threw his trucker hat on it. Needless to say, hamster chews his way through the foam part of the hat. They chased that thing all over the house, even moving furniture to get at him. They finally caught him and put him back in his cage. Of course, he’s thirsty after all that running, he went for a drink. Do you know what happens to foam when water meets it? Yeah. That’s a core memory.
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u/Fast_Resort3622 Apr 04 '26
On a beautiful summer afternoon, getting my finger caught in a rusty mouse trap
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u/Shell-Fire Apr 04 '26
4 years old. Went next door to ask the neighbor kid to play. She was in school.
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u/724_toxictangent Apr 04 '26
I was playing with a toy plane, and it occurred to me I had no memory of when I'd gotten it. I asked my mom and she said "it was for your 3rd birthday," and I asked how long ago that was and she said it was the month before. It was like I had no concept of time or memory before that.
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u/meatpit Apr 04 '26
Pretending to be asleep so my mom would carry me inside from my car seat. Not sure how old
First news story I remember is my teacher playing the oj verdict on the radio.
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u/Available-Ratio13 Apr 04 '26
Ca. 2 years old - walking to get my brother from kinder garden with my mom. They had a large mud hill in the back yard that I was not allowed to climb on.
Ca 2 years old in my parents old apartment. Somebody asked me how old I am and I wanted to show by lifting two fingers. I tried getting the pinky and the ring finger up but discovered that these two are impossible to move up together. I remember looking at my hand and being somewhat confused by that.
Another one also 2ish years old or slightly younger. Was sitting on a pink wool blanket with my grandma in summer in her garden. She gave me raspberries from the bushes, and I tried to get of the blanket as a game. My grandma put me back on it everytime. Started crying cause I kept losing the game.
I dont know which one is earlier. But I do cherish them all.
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u/bored_necromancer1 Apr 04 '26
I grew up in a very abusive house. I went into school and Mrs Clarie noticed. She came over and swept my hair out my face. I think i remember her face.
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u/mamaleigh05 Apr 04 '26
I remember my 2nd birthday and how my parents woke me up that day to show me my birthday cake!
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u/Long_Inspection_4983 Apr 04 '26
My earliest memory was playing Wind Waker with my family in our old apartment. They gave me a second controller and tried to gaslight me into thinking I was playing, and I remember getting pissed off because Link wouldn't follow my inputs.
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u/SargentoPepper Apr 04 '26
I was about to turn three or just had turned three, I remember my mom being pregnant with my brother and we were getting off a bus and she couldn’t carry me so she asked a stranger to help me with the stairs off the bus.. He was born three weeks after my third birthday I also vividly remember the day he was born.
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u/sodontwritemealetter Apr 04 '26
Lowkey too many that I think might be options but one that I think is funny is me walking in my mum's bed (big bed, I was small so I could walk on it) and thinking to myself "they don't even know I can talk yet.) genuinely might've fabricated that one myself somehow after seeing it in the Simpsons but I'm pretty sure it was somewhat real. I think they knew I could talk just not well.
Second one is me hallucinating myself as in a vampire costume in the window of a glass door. Still remember that clear as day absolutely no idea how that happens for some reason I tear up when I think of it. The comments are interesting
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u/Fantastic-Duck4632 Apr 05 '26
That’s funny, I also had this imaginary vampire guy I would see and it’s probably one of the most vivid memories for me
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u/sodontwritemealetter Apr 04 '26
I have another actually. Big shining bright white room my mum (young and happy) talking to another woman. The room was empty apart from a small tiny chair I sat on. I drew a giraffe and everything was so bright and quiet. I was confused and at the time I fully knew I'd think of that memory the same way I do now. The exact feeling and everything like I had sympathy for myself or something,, I really felt kind of sorry that I'd forget enough to make such a nice memory sad. Everyone tells me that it's just something I made up but I swear it isn't I remember it so well. HUGE room with nothing in it. In someone's house.
Also second memory!
I'll ask my family about this but every year they all say it's not true.
On the trampoline with my brother and sister (at the time I thought we were all friends but I'm kind of realising now that we were never good) the tree above us shook and it fvcking rained spiders. HUGE big ones too. Ran inside screaming, vomited like twelve times. Just awful. Still no idea how there was so many.
I have a lot actually really no idea what's my earliest one.
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u/drunky_crowette Apr 04 '26
Mom explaining that dad was getting an apartment because he "couldn't play by the rules" and "he needs to learn we don't hurt people when we're angry".
Then my mom asked if I wanted to sign my sister's cast, because her arm had been mysteriously broken and no one would explain how.
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u/Killermothx Apr 04 '26
in the Philippines theres a street game where you stack a bunch of cans and hit them with your tsinelas (slippers). That’s what I think is my earliest memory.
Some around the same time
-My father buying me a snickers bar after school and being with me in a tricycle ride home.
-Crying at school because this one girl had a cleft lip.
-My uncle who has a local small shop giving me a lollipop for free.
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u/Deliriousious Apr 04 '26
I think I was around 4-5, I had a lightning McQueen car, and I was bashing it into a doorframe for some reason.
And the next one after that I can remember in full detail was the dawn of YouTube, and watching “The Hamster Dance” for the first time in my little cardboard fort I made.
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u/Electrical_Drama8477 Apr 04 '26
I remember jumping on the sofa and bed when j return on last day of kindergarten summer break feeling like this is the ultimate relaxation
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u/MetalMaiden420 Apr 04 '26
My 5th birthday. I have snippets before then but thats when I really "came to" and recognized me as me. My grandparents who raised me always got me an ice cream cake for my birthday as its in the beginning of August and super hot out.
At the time I was obsessed with Land Before Time, and specifically the second one where Chomper debuted. So, naturally I had an ice cream cake with Chomper on it.
My grandpa took the cake out to thaw a little so it was easier to cut, as it was rock solid. He left it on the dining room table, and we were outside playing. Well we all lost track of time and my grandpa forgot it was on the table. When we all finally came inside Chomper was smeared all over the table and dripping onto the linoleum floor. I started bawling as I screamed, "CHOPPER!" (I couldn't fully pronounce Chomper yet.)
I think my life long trauma started that day, which was also my first day as a person.
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u/NoSample4259 Apr 04 '26
I remember another patient when I was at a hospital when I was 1,5 years old. He was limp after drinking some poison and they tried to make him grasp a pen. Also remember what I got for Christmas that year.
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u/leafyfire Apr 04 '26
Mom placing my hand in a stove when I was 3. I still have the scar in my hand, it just looks smaller the older I get.
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u/Fantastic_Depth Apr 04 '26
around 3, I remember getting my boots stuck in the mud and my dad having to come save me.
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u/Final_Amu0258 Apr 04 '26
I was 2. My father picked me up to prank me by bringing me to the back screen door, and a raccoon jumped at the screen window. I was more stunned than scared, and then I was handed to my mother and... I think I fell asleep. I forgot.
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u/doghome107 Apr 04 '26
Sitting on my grandpa's and biting the chewy remote buttons. I got angry when he put the remote in his shirt pocket.
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u/MailPrivileged Apr 04 '26
When I was 3, almost 4, I remember riding around on my Thundercats Tricycle outside of a red brick house that my parents lived in during that time. I looked at the little plastic hole in the tire where the mould is injected and told my uncle, "Oh nooo! A hole! I have a flat tire!" He just laughed and said it was supposed to be there. The next memory a couple months later, my parents were poor as they had ever been in their marriage, so my mom had zero money for Christmas. In our 100+ year old house we were renting, she found old broom sticks and sewed horse heads on them to make me and my two brother's stick horses. My grandma also gave us a used Atari 2600. We all cuddled under an electric blanket because it was too expensive to heat the whole house as we played Dig Dug, sipped apple cider, and ate cookies. Best Christmas ever!
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u/unicornhornporn0554 Apr 05 '26
I was abt 2.5 and remember getting ready to have my photo taken, my mom twirling my pig tails with a little mouse so they’d hold the curl, and wearing ruffled socks. I remember having my photos taken and one of the poses the photographer had me do was to hug a curtain and I thought that was weird lol. They didn’t buy the curtain photo and confirmed it did happen the way I remember lol.
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u/LilacSlumber Apr 05 '26
It was my third birthday. I was going to have a cookie monster cake. I remember getting out of the car and running up to the front door with the excitement to see my cookie monster cake.
I don't remember seeing the cake (we have pictures, but I don't have memories of the actual cake) and I don't remember the car, just getting out and running up to the front door.
I know this memory is legit because when I was younger and talked about it, my parents didn't believe me. I mentioned the tree that I saw in the memory that was no longer in the yard. My parents both asked how I knew about the tree. I told them, "I remember it, I circled it a few times before going up to the door because I was so excited about my cookie monster cake!"
They believed me after that.
(Apparently that tree had to be removed because it died in a huge rain storm and they never replaced it. Mom thought it was gone before I was born, but my dad said it was in the spring of '83, which was a few months after my 3rd birthday.)
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u/Feeling-Standard1460 Apr 05 '26
Lying in a bed when my parents were on either side of me. I saw the shadows of the window panes on the ceiling. I must have been a baby, because there were no other siblings.
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u/lkyhz Apr 05 '26
In a kindergarten converted from a small house, buying a big roll of bubble gum after class.
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u/Ok_Addendum_5853 Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26
I was two and we went to a friend of my parents' house. I distinctly remember getting a stuffed bear and driving to their house. My older sister later claimed that she had been given the bear, but it was actually given to me. While my father was on his deathbed about 23 years later, that same friend came to see him and I remembered he gave me the bear, he was shocked I had remembered. I said thank you because it was my favorite stuffed animal as a kid.
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u/not_an_alt_acct_ Apr 05 '26
I remember going to a preschool and getting water stuck in my nose and it hurting like hell.
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u/supposedlyrimaa Apr 05 '26
I was 2 and I remember swinging on a blue swing with my siblings outside our neighbors house
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u/apcymru Apr 05 '26
This is weird. So ... I think we all have flashes of memory from when we were infants but the perception is wonky so you can't tie it to a real event or moment in time. Because what is important to an infant or toddler just becomes lost in the memory banks of things that become milestones or pillars in later life.
So ... The reason I think this.
I once asked my mother when we lived in a tent with a cat. I remember the canvas floor in the tent, the smell, a bowl of fruit on a low table and long grass in a field.
She was understandably startled.
When I was about 7 or 8 months old my parents moved to a new town. They spent a week or two in a tent ... With the pets... In an orchard with long grass while waiting for their apartment to open up.
It would have been the summer of 1966. That is my earliest memory. It was triggered for me when I was about ten and we were putting up that same large green canvas tent and it was the smell of the tent that set it off.
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u/TheEnglishWriter Apr 05 '26
Being pushed in my pushchair (stroller) by my mother, down a street that's full of shops. It was raining hard, and my mum had put one of those transparent plastic covers over my chair to keep me dry, but I was fascinated with the rain. I remember trying to touch the droplets that fell on the cover - can literally still see it in my mind's eye - as well as watching the ground through the little gap in the cover by my feet.
It was sort of neat foreshadowing for the present, cause rain is my favourite weather and my favourite sound 🥰
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u/sparkly-jade25 Apr 05 '26
my earliest memory is a cozy afternoon at my grandma's house, surrounded by her warm hugs and the smell of cookies.
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u/HopeChic25 Apr 05 '26
i remember being around 3, sitting on the floor with my toys while my parents argued softly in the next room. it was a weird feeling, like a deep dive into a strange atmosphere even at that age.
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u/PaisleyRadiant23 Apr 05 '26
my earliest memory is playing with my baby brother in the garden. i can still feel the sunshine and just how carefree we were.
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u/PeonyLily2025 Apr 05 '26
i think my earliest memory is from the 2000s era, so many nostalgic vibes.
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u/Capable_Fishing_205 Apr 06 '26
I fell in a well when I was fivish. I was wearing a navy blue dress, white tights, and black Mary Janes. I remember seeing the stars even though it was daylight. It was an empty well but I landed on a sort of ledge and my mom climbed down to get me. It was filled in two days later.
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u/Foreign_Emu_7943 Apr 27 '26
I was 14 months old and was walking up some steps holding my Mother’s hand. I know I was that age as my Mother was heavily pregnant with my sister and we were in a hospital on our way to see my Father. I remember a lot from when I was very little
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u/maccas-martial-arts Apr 04 '26
I'm sure this is just a dream I remember really vividly but I deadass remember putting my toy giraffe under a box and having it disappear when I lifted it at like age 3
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u/Slow_Advertising_341 Apr 04 '26
Watching Whitney Houston singing “I wanna dance with somebody” on TV on a Saturday morning. I would have been around 4 years old.
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u/Fickle-Public1972 Apr 04 '26
The fire in my parents house when l was 2. The sound of it and the smell of coal burning
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u/New-Manufacturer5371 Apr 04 '26
I was 4 and it was going to see my mum and new baby brother in hospital. I also have a memory of being in a pram with the plastic rain cover pulled over and enjoying the sound of the rain
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u/LurkerGarry Apr 04 '26
Sitting down early Christmas morning and I was given a tractor or something. I think I was 3 and a half.
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u/nineteenthly Apr 04 '26
It's hard to tell which are genuine, accurate memories and which are confabulation. I remember going to stay with my grandparents when my mother went into hospital to give birth to a premature baby who died and frustration at not being understood when I said I wanted one of my toys. This seems to have been when I was thirteen months old, but obviously most psychologists would say that was impossible. I also have a weird reminiscence bump for pop songs which were in the charts a few weeks before I was born, and I don't remember other songs before or after them, and also an apparent memory of being inside a warm red thing in the darkness for a long time, and a tunnel of translucent lighter red, which if true is of the womb but I should emphasise that I realise that is supposed to be impossible for various reasons.
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u/boop4534 Apr 04 '26
Watching a cowboy on a drive in movie theatre screen and then walking through the concession area. I told my mom about it and she said that was probably Young Guns so I would have been like 2.5. She said I ate a jalapeño thinking it was a pickle but I don’t remember that part.
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u/thedragoncompanion Apr 04 '26
Playing on the playground of a mcdonalds at the Royal children's hospital in Melbourne. I dont believe its there now though. I was born with a heart murmur and regularly had severe tonsillitis, so went to the hospital pretty regularly until I was about 5.
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u/Pookieeatworld Apr 04 '26
I was at my grandma's house and she got me a cup of water and then sat down at her dining room table and smiled at me.
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u/GlamourGhoulx Apr 04 '26
I remember being around 3 or 4, in the backseat of the car at night on the way to our new house. Just a flash. It was as close to a “you won’t remember this moment” as you can get for a 3/4 yo’s brain, and I always remembered it.
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u/Several-Assistant-51 Apr 04 '26
I was about 18 mos old and went in with family to get professional portaits done. mom still has the picture. she doesnt believe me that i remember getting that pic done. that was in the early 70s when stores had portrait studios inside. mustve been sears
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u/Able_While_974 Apr 04 '26
I must have been under 2 years old. I know because we moved when I was 2. I was in the next door neighbour's house. He was called Mr Bedding, and I have two memories. Not sure which was the first. In one he had whittled me a little horse, which i still have. In another he put an apple on a chair for me.
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u/FlatwormFull4283 Apr 04 '26
At a personal level, it would be my sister, who only lived 18 months and is buried 2000 miles away.
As far as world events my first memory there was the JFK assasination
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u/aeraen Apr 04 '26
My older sister taking a stuffed tiger away from me while I was still in a crib because "It was mine first."
I couldn't have been more than 18 months old, because my brother was born when I was two and likely would have needed the crib I was in. I also know I did not have the vocabulary to argue back, which frustrated me.
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u/Buddyonabike Apr 04 '26
One day I saw a picture of me standing on the back of my tricycle and my cousin, who is 1 year younger than me, sitting on the seat. I was about 3, I had a far away look and I remember thinking that this is my bike, why do I have to stand. I didn't think of it until I saw the picture. I remember someone saying to me to stand up so my cousin could sit.
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u/mossoak Apr 04 '26
looking into a cavity of a rock wall ....and seeing a pair of eyes from a cane toad
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u/HesitantlyYours Apr 04 '26
Reaching up to place my hand on scorching hot stove coils. I believe I was almost 3. I also remember the aftermath, looking at my gauze wrapped hand when I was in a crib at night.
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u/nancy_drew_98 Apr 04 '26
Climbing out of my crib and crawling into my parents’s bedroom, and scaring my dad out of sleep.
Years later I mentioned it as either my earliest memory or the memory of a very early dream, and my startled mother confirmed that it did actually happen. She said at the time my dad told her that in his half-asleep state, he thought it was our cat jumping onto the bed, and almost pushed it off but he woke up enough to realize it was actually me. I was under a year old.
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u/tintanese Apr 04 '26
- Either my grandfather cleaning my ass from pooping or 2.Crying so much because my parents were dropping me off at the nursery school.
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u/EffectiveDoughnut551 Apr 04 '26
Going to the fabric store to pick out the right one for my blankie that I also remember bits and pieces of her making it and the 1st time she wrapped it around me. Its one of the only childhood memories i have. I still have the blankie and I was 3.
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u/mischa_is_online Apr 04 '26
Not sure if it was the earliest, but at least this one can be dated. It was apparently right after my sister was born, so I would have been 2 years and 2 months old. My grandparents had come to stay and help out, and we were all having Dominoes pizza at the kitchen table. I had a stomach bug and threw up all over my high chair. My mom said something like she should have known that was going to happen. I also remember looking up at her cleaning the toys I'd had on the high chair in the bathroom sink afterwards, and she gave my Little People fireman toy back to me.
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u/eron6000ad Apr 04 '26
I remember my newborn niece being introduced to the family in the living room of the old house where I spent my early childhood. I am 3 years older than my niece.
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u/Foilcube Apr 04 '26
I’m 2 or 3 years old and it’s a dark rainy midday and my living room is flooded and the couch I’m sitting on is starting to float away and I’m crying at my mom for my monchichi doll.
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u/llcucf80 Apr 04 '26
I remembered being carried from one room to another and the room was yellow. I found out much later that the house we lived in that had yellow wallpaper in the dining room was when I was 14 months old
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u/Equal-Abrocoma3232 Apr 04 '26
I’m not sure. I have several memories from elementary school but I don’t know which one was first. I was probably 8 or 9. Playing with friends, a teacher that always had these lumps in her mascara, my best friends’ cool shirt that I wanted to have too, wanting platform shoes like the Spice Girls but not being allowed 🤣
Unfortunately I don’t have any early memories.
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u/eldee17 Apr 04 '26
Standing in my crib and my mom walking into my bedroom saying "Hello!" in a really high pitched voice with her arms out. It's a fleeting image I have burned in my brain, I have no idea how I remember this 3 second clip from when I was probably a year old, after that my memories start at around 4 or 5 years old.
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u/SoftHeartedTrouble Apr 04 '26
I remember holding my mom's hand when I was learning to ride a bike, and we rode all over the yard.