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A comment in another thread has caused this one

Childhood amnesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Individuals’ first memories significantly reflect their personality traits."

My earliest memory is the disappointment I felt when I had to walk instead of riding in a pram.

So that either means I am an idle so and so, or the fact that I am easily taken for a ride- both ring true :D

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Just been reading some letters of my Grandads which mum has scanned and sent me.
He specifically mentions his first childhood memory which was paddling in the sea in 1914 in Blackpool and running along the beach besides the donkeys! Mt Gt-Grandma Lucy went there with 5 children to run a guest-house for Ghurkas!

Grandad was always a happy soul -presumably his first memory affected all his life.

Mine is of my sister falling in a rockpool in Cornwall when i was about 5 -she got out of going to church and I didn't. Went with dad and we bought a present for mum on the way back, which was an ashtray with a green fish in the bottom, he let me choose it. Think it was a Troika -got broken years ago...,

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Earliest i remember was Christmas Day 1952, Had got a 3 wheeler bike fer Christmas, Went tearing down Maudsley St on pavement, across Arnold St, n hit the corner of the St Johns pub.:eek: Did me Arm,Leg, n grazed me face, Got played hell wi n carted off to Accy Vic.:hehetable Was up me nans at the time.

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I was two years and three days old when I lost my only child status, and my brother was born. Bringing the gift of a golliwog, as some sort of compensation. I remember sulking at the bottom of the stairs in the hospital, the day he came home.

I have lots of memories before that.

My Nan washing my hair with Stardrops in the kitchen sink, when my nice baby shampoo was upstairs in the bathroom.

Being disappointed at getting a pedal tank you sat in, from Father Christmas.

Clothes feature in many early memories. I know all the colours of what I wore as a baby, even though there are only black and white photographs of them.

I think my very earliest memory was around my first birthday. I sneaked into the unused front room, opened a display cabinet, and ate the baby and crib, made out of Royal icing, that had been made to go on top of my christening cake.

Greedy, with an interest in fashion.

Nothing much changes.

:eek::D:eek:

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So have you lived recklessly/dangerously ever since?

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Not earliest memory now i think about it -can remember some things from nursery school -blowing bubbles from clay pipes and making a papier-mache dinosaur.

Also remember throwing up violently when I had whooping cough and mum gave me some hot milk -still can't drink it to this day -will have been between 2 and 3 then!:D

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Must have been an early walker like my first son. He could walk at 9 months and used to hide food under a lamp in the corner of the living room. I'd find him eating at all times of day, fruit and biscuits and fo:pund his secret store after a while because of a trail of ants! He also used to answer the phone!:p

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As my brother sometimes reads Accy Web.

I love you now, and you're a great brother.

Even though the golliwog has now lost his jacket, because it was shoddily constucted in the first place.

:D

Another bad memory, now family legend.

I once remember saying to my Mum that I could feed my baby brother his nursery slop.

Mum thanked me, propped us between cushions on the sofa, and went into the kitchen.

I remember thinking if I eat all the food he might starve, and I'd be King Tot again.

Gobble, gobble.

'He's finished it all Mummy!'

:D:o:D

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You were lucky my first bike had stabilisers and it was a snowy winter, didn't get to use it for ages...

Also spent a day at Accy Vic when about 7 when I broke my ankle falling off a space-hopper! Waited for ages as a group of kids had eaten laburnum seeds and were having their stomachs pumped -hadn't thought of that in years. Remember this awful nurse telling me to hurry up and stop being soft as there was nothing wrong with me -went home with a pot -hope it wasn't Margaret!:D

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One of my earliest memories consists of running head first into the gas oven in our kitchen and not only knocking myself out, but bleeding all over the lino....and being upset.
Not because I was bleeding, but because I had made a mess of the lino.
I would be about 2 years old at the time. I still have the mark on my forehead from this escapade.

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Walking and talking at seven months.

Mind, I was born a month after my due date.

So in theory you could add a month on.

I wouldn't want to have been born in '64.

Hanging on to a tidy middle of a decade, is so much more me.

:D

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So your first memory was of pain and suffering, then you spent a large part of your life relieving suffering of others - that fits

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I've got friends who say they don't remember before they went to school, at four or five.

I think that's totally weird, and almost unbelievable.

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Yes and worrying about the bloody mess(literally) I had caused.
I spent much of my career mopping up blood.......so yes, I guess it does Margaret.

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That wiki link in my 1st post could explain that -

"However, adults who had traumatic and abusive early childhoods report an offset of childhood amnesia around 5-7 years old. It has been suggested that this is because stressful experiences can injure memory centers and possibly make it harder to form memories."

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This isn't an early memory but thought I'd throw it in - Does anyone remember making carts out of tyres and frames from dissused wheel chairs we used to get from a factory in Oswaldtwistle? Kids round my way used to do it in early 70's don't know if other kids at other areas did it - but I think it was a trend at that time.

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My very first memory i have verified with mum but she doesn't believe it's true as it was before I was two and i was in a pram. Getting the train in Accrington and her losing her winkle picker type shoe as we got on the train - she reckons I must have heard her saying it when I was little..

A friend of mine at Uni. swore that his first memory was of blue and white striped wallpaper in his bedroom .his mum thought it was him looking through the gate of his cot which was blue...who knows!

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Too busy sniffing glue, to recall properly?

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Starting school at three years old and playing .stood in a circle, The farmer wants a wife, with Mrs Turner the teacher.The hooks in the cloakroom with all the animals pictures on.

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I can remember being in my pram, a big coach built affair, and pulling myself up with the sides. I can also remember being on my mum's knee having my nappy changed, I can remember screaming and the feeling of absolute fury at being messed with! Not actual real memories but just a quick snapshot with the feelings at the time, not put into context of what had happened before or after.
I have lots of memories from the age of about two onwards which are really clear, the earliest being when I decided to grab a very prickly cactus at my great aunties house in Blackpool to see what it felt like, getting the prickles stuck in my hand and ending up in the hospital casualty!

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Your a basically an ass hole pal!!! You do it on purpose! You Pratt!

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I've thought similar things, about my friends who claim they have no early memories. One in particular, who says they have no memories before the age of six. Which was when their parents seperated.

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Out with anger.

In with love.

Peace be with you.

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I was about 2-3 and remember feeding the playschool's tortoise custard creams me and my best mate , who is still my best mate nearly forty years later:D

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Yeah, but is the tortoise still talking to you?

That made me laugh.

Think it was because you'd remembered they were custard creams.

Everyone knows tortoises prefer jammy dodgers.

:D

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Thanks for the chuckle :D

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I also remember sitting on the floor in my grans kitchen and drinking water from the dogs bowl(and trying to eat the lump of sulphur that was in it to keep it fresh)......and being washed in the big belfast sink...with a bar of red carbolic soap.

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Bet you looked a right silly, little, bitc...er, lady dog.

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:D

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Yes, I remember getting my hand slapped too...so another memory with some pain attached....the sulphur didn't taste nice either.

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Standing at the front window of 3 Broadfield Road, watching fascinated as a big double decker red and blue corporation bus came up Willows Lane and turned down the road. I think it had a significant effect on me, because I've been obsessed with ACT buses ever since and have half a dozen fully liveried models of 'em in my house!

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The one thing which really sticks in my memory was siting in the stand at Ewood when I was about 4 years old, with my Granddad, he took me to a reserve match to see if I liked it, well it must have done something cuz I did spend many happy and unhappy days down there

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Led astray at early age! ;)

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A found the promised land, being lead astray would have been taken to the Theatre of Merchandising

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an older cousin daring me to throw a brick :D .... which i did do .. straight through the kitchen window just missing my mums head by inches:eek: ..... i was 3 or 4 at the time ...

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Has Spugs ever been on the receiving end of missiles?:eek::D

I'm sure you would aim to miss as you did then.

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ive had 40 years of practice since then margaret ... i dont miss now!!! which the spugster will attest to ...:D:D:D

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Poor Spugster always getting the stick:D:D

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Yeh I remember sniffing glue aged 2 - NOT! You always seem to pull out the snide remarks! :( :rolleyes:

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Depends on who he's dealing with, doesn't really have to try with you, as you set yourself up big style every time you log on;)

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Baloney - what i posted here was a straight comment pal - so don't come that - he is basically an little snide ****** ! He does it to others as well mate - so sit on that!

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He baits the hook and you swallow it.
It is simple, just because someone throws the ball, does not mean that you have to catch it!

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Thinking fishing a waste of time, I prefer to put my bait on a trap.

Knowing it'll soon snap shut.

Once again, catching a dumb, nasty, little rat.

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:rolleyes:

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You don't like a fish supper then G? :D

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First of all I'm not your pal, never did mix with druggies, as for doing it with others they usually deserve it.

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The trouble is Rindi your not fair, you make the bait too tasty:rolleyes:

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This lighthearted thread of childhood reminiscence has deteriorated into another slanging match.

Those reponsible for doing that - please desist and take your bitterness to threads designed to display it.

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Saints need sinners. Also Alan Watts.:D

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Broke the collarbone in 1991 (December 12th 91, actually) :eek: :eek:

Got taken to BRI by my Dad in his Mazda 626, and wuz put in a sling! :o

I was 2YRs old at the time! :dummy2:

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Mind you, the sling was SUPER painful

:p

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Vaguely remember eating coal in kitchen and playing on a slide at playschool. I vividly remember my baby brother dying and my dad sat at the top of the stairs crying. I can remember seeing him in his cot the same morning and I'm convinced he was alive then. Very strong memory

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:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

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I also broke my arm when I was 10 (September 23, 1999, a month after the parent's wedding :D)

Broke it in Hippings, and was picked up by the Dad and taken to BRI :p

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Having my tonsils out in Queens Park hospital I was 3 yrs old 1951. Mum and Dad took me in and I didn't see them again until the ambulance took me home , mum was on door step crying ( she was so happy ) and I then cried thinking she didn't want me back.

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Sitting in my pram, unable to move as I was dressed in what they used to call a 'siren suit'!
I was two. Anyone remember siren suits and why were they called in this way??

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Yes my brother and sister, born in 1950, had siren suits though I don't remember having one myself.

They were an all in one garment like a jumpsuit, and I think it was Winston Churchill who popularised them during WWII. He certainly wore one. They were so called I think because they were a convenient garment to wear if you were in an air raid shelter during a bomb scare - when the sirens went off.

Siren suits and pin up pompadour curls Appletree Days

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Thks Susie. I had thought of the sirens during the war but I didn't want to accept that I'm so old!!!!!

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yer not so old, yeh only a kid like me.:D;)

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Only just seen this Margaret, err ya missed a word out:Dum its not in the over 18s is it:rolleyes:

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Either that or, as they say, you revert to your childhood the older you get:D

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I blocked out the word 'PEE' knowing that incontinent persons may be offended.

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I pished meself at that.:D

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Wasn't think of that, my input would have been far worse:D

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Not wanting to put too much of a dampers on things but....this "conversation" may be studied in the future as first-hand historical "eye-witness" accounts of our collective past... a bit of decorum, please! Let's try and keep up appearances!:o:D

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I now christen you Hyacinth

Keeping Up Appearances - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Centred on the life of eccentric, social-climbing snob Hyacinth Bucket (who insists that her surname is pronounced Bouquet),"

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The Freudian slips are coming out now, mentioning the word "pee" reveals your early memories of potty training trying to break through into the conscious mind - why else are people suddenly talking about "peeing!" :confused::D:D:rolleyes:

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Right you lot, stop pishing about & get back on topic ! ;) :D

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I'm sure that I remember the first Kennedy Assasination - as everything went quiet and saw these images on TV, then I asked my mother what had happened and she said, "The president has been shot!"

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I was just going into the youthclub on Sun Street Ossy when I heard about Kennedy, about 7-30pm on a friday

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Being put to work in a coal mine because I'd grown too wide to run up chimneys cleaning them.
I loved my mum, she stopped my dad from putting me to work until I was out of nappies, I refused to be potty trained until my early forties.
:D

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kennedy before my time, but can remember my mum crying bout Elvis i was six

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I have loads, I remember being a baby!Couldn't tell you what I did last week , though!

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you will fit in well on here then:)

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Saying The Beatles were washed up, as I departed the womb.

Oh, and telling the midwife she ain't no Dusty Springfield, and less really is more, in the mascara department.

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I do remember thinking a pebbled beach was no place for a heavily pregnant woman, as Mummy trotted down to wee in the sea at Nice.

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My first memory is putting my Mum's business suit with her boots on when I was 3 (1989) :). This might have been the start over my obsession on boots, nail varnish, and toerings! :king::king:

I also put on her makeup, which made me look like a combination between a clown and a businesswoman! :o :

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Was in the Odeon with Maureen Wallace on that night. Flashed it on the screen.

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I also remember going to France when I was 3.5yrs old (late 1989), and trying on a young women's pantyhose! :o

(The label said [23yrs old L] :o):

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Did you grow out of being oriental as a child?

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I took them off a shelf at a French department store, and put them on in the changing room :o

My earliest memory is my brother Colin trying to stuff an onion in my mouth when I was outside in my pram,he must have took it from the kitchen when mam wasn't looking.She came dashing to the front door to look for him only to find me turning blue needless to say I have hated onions ever since.

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Wait while i see him in Town.:hehetable

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Seeing and hearing this olive skinned beautiful woman's arms covered in golden bejeweled bangles and trying to snatch some for me as they wave on top of me, whilst I bathed myself in saffron filled beds lined with pearls and rubies, also known as a newborns pram. It's then that I knew this woman was the perfect one for me...

Before I could talk, walk or even sit (but kick, hell yeah!):hesoff:

When I described everything at age >15, me mam said "You were 2.5-3 months then... that's impossible (!!)"