What is your earliest memory?

[Evan_OS]

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My earliest memory was when I was 3 or 4. I was sitting in my crib, and my dog came and started licking my fingers and I was like..What's that? Thats about all I can remember.

[Jdurg]

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I can't remember which came first, but I have two very early memories. One kind of cool, and one that is pretty traumatizing.

The cool one is going to see E.T. in the movie theaters when it came out. I saw it at the Norwich Cinemas (a small, two theater establishment) with my mom, my sister, and my cousin. I must have been 2 3/4 years old since we saw it on release day. I remember being in the back/middle of a crowded theater and that's really it.

The, now that I think about it, earlier one was just a few months prior to that. I was 2.5 years old and it is a horrific memory that I wish I didn't have. I remember going to bed that night feeling a bit strange. I kept waking up in the middle of the night because I would wet my bed and really have to go pee. I was also EXTREMELY thirsty, so when I'd get up crying I'd beg my mom for a glass of water. I'd drink the water, go back to bed, then wake up 15 minutes later when I really had to go pee. I'd go pee, then cry for more water. This went on for a good part of the night when my mother finally got fed up and yelled at me saying "You want water? HERE'S YOUR WATER!" and dumping a glass of water on my head. I just sat on the floor of the kitchen crying because I didn't feel good and didn't understand why my mom was yelling at me. My father was out to sea at the time (He was in the Navy) so it was just me, my mom and my sister in the house. After sitting on the ground crying for a while, my mother finally noticed that I didn't look right and so she took me to the emergency room at the Sub Base's hospital.

I don't remember the specifics, but I remember a lot of needles going in me and a bunch of doctor's doing a bunch of things. The only thing I remember hearing was the doctor telling my mom "He has a blood sugar of 1017 mg/dL right now. That's the highest I've ever seen for a concious human being." It was the night I came down with Type I Diabetes. Life has never been the same. It's just a horrible memory that I wish I didn't have. Since this was in the Navy hospital, they got a message out to my father who was on the other side of the world at the time and they flew him home to visit me in the hospital. So that was nice of our govenment. But damn. I would trade in everything I have for that night to have never happened.

[CMH]

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Keep in mind that your first memory often isn't necessarily real, but may have been pieced together off of what you heard and you now believe it is real. Psychology 101 FTW!!!

Likely very true, but I know that my earliest memories are my own because no one has ever told me they happened. Also, I always kept track of my earliest memories so it's not like I was 13 trying to remember what happened when I was 2. I went over it and over it again as I grew up.

But, yea, my earliest memories are from when I was 2. I don't know which happened first, but I'm almost positive that the earliest one is from an accident I had as a child (lets just say that the story about the woman that burned herself with McDonalds coffee wouldn't be a story if my mom had sued).

I'm fine now but I remember everything that happened the moment I burned myself with coffee. I remember the lead up to it, I remember the spilling and I remember the pain and crying. Then I go totally blank after a couple months of visiting the doctor nearly everyday. My mom says I was in constant pain and I'm going to assume that my brain shut out those memories on purpose. I then remember my last day going to the doctor for treatment because my mother bought me one of those large "handheld" video games that looked like tiny arcade machines. It was "Popeye" and I loved that game.

[BrianFifaFan]

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I was about 3 1/2 and we went drove from Dayton to San Fran to go to the Phillippines. I remember a lot of that trip. There was a gas station in Wyoming that I vividly remember. It was the middle of the night and a guy was sitting out playing guitar, and there was a fire burning. I can remeber huge chunks of my time over in the P.I. I'd say from about 5 on, my memory is pretty intact.

[BunnyHardaway]

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Earliest memories I have are around the time I was in preschool, so I was like 3 or 4.

[matt8204]

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For some reason, it's stuck in my mind that I can remember my first birthday party, but I know that's not really possible, or at the very least, not very likely. It must be my 2nd or 3rd that I'm actually recalling. For specific memories, I remember my mom dropping me off at school on the first day of kindergarten pretty well.

[adice15]

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When I was 2 or 3 I really liked green beans, so my dad told me that they were dessert. I think that lasted about a month or 2.

[Pete1210]

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It's tricky because I have to sort out stories my parents told me about myself as a young child from what I actually remember.

My earliest memories are from elementary school, first grade. I remember my teacher a little. I remember a volcano project in that class that some involved making fudge and bringing some home.

[trobinson97]

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Learning to crawl.

[slickdtc]

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Earliest memories I have are around the time I was in preschool, so I was like 3 or 4.

Yeah, same for me.

[GAMEC0CK2002]

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I remember having to sleep on those fold up red-blue mats at kindergarten.

[SPTO]

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My earliest memory for sure (not counting something that might be ingrained due to stories told over and over) would be when I was leaving my special education school as I wasn't qualified to go to "regular" school for a year so this was when I was hm 5 I guess. Anyways I remember clear as day sitting in the short bus and looking out the window at the overcast sky as it was starting to rain and saying goodbye to one of the teaching assistants who had walked me to the bus.

Strange first memory but I tend to remember some of the more obscure or mundane things.

[Jdurg]

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I'm pretty certain that my memories are actual and not a product of stories being told, because my family never told the story about going to see E.T. and I actually shocked my mother when I told her that I remembered that as she had forgotten all about it. The night I got diabetes was also something that wasn't told through story due to the vicious nature of it.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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Seasme Street.......big bird. Yeah PBS raised me LOL.

[Misfit]

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I have bits and pieces of memories from when I was between the ages of 2 and 3. We had a brook in our backyard and I remember walking to it behind my dad. I also remember the satellite dish in the front yard which seemed huge to me, I'm curious how big it actually was (we don't have pictures) My most well-formed memories are when we moved into our first house in the late winter of 1986 when I was approaching my third birthday. I remember stupid things that would resonate with a kid, like the pizza we ordered and how I wasn't tall enough to look out the living room window (which was probably only 3 and a half feet on the ground). From the age of 4 and on I remember a lot of stuff. It's kind of crazy to think how far back memories go.