Is it normal that I can't think back on childhood days with friends, because I have seemingly no recollection? Its like when you forgot the lyrics to a song that you have stuck in your head..or the name of an actor is right on the tip of your tongue, but you can't quite remember. Such brain freezes happen to most of us, to different degrees, as we age. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) estimates that here in the UK, almost one in four children (24.1%) experience sexual abuse.
And I’m one of those people who can’t remember big parts of my childhood. Break the material down into small pieces. We went last year, when she was two. For example, if you’re trying to remember vocabulary for a language class, don’t try to memorize more than 7-8 words at a time. Why can’t I remember the past?

I've asked my parents if perhaps something bad happened to me that would force me to repress the memories but they said … Most people generally do not remember anything before the age of three, although some theorists (e.g. Most of my friends can and it bugs me that I can't remember a single detail. The pathway used in memory recall in adulthood is not capable of recalling childhood memories. I don’t remember too much that they actually said, but I can remember the sun being really bright against the shiny wooden floor and getting distracted by it. It’s a terrifying statistic, made more sobering considering that being sexually abused as a child can cause lifelong negative repercussions if victims do not find the support they need to heal. I Can't Remember The First 9 Years Of My Life - posted in Off–Topic Chitchat: I am 25 years old and I can't remember anything from before I was 9. Is there any way to make myself remember? Now scientists are figuring out why.
There are huge blank spots in my memory beginning when I was four years old all the way up until I turned 18. I have little knowledge of my childhood: I can remember hardly anything from the age of about 10 years downwards. They started to explain they had never meant to keep it from me; it wasn’t a deep, dark family secret or anything to be embarrassed about. She never has to continue saying “umm” in a sentence. Faulty memory happens to us all. How can I try and remember my past? I remember few significant things and other random assorted things, but I have no clear memory of my life before 8th or 9th grade. I'm now 23 and its not very apparent to me why I can't remember any details. And then in university a psychology major decided to have fun with me by pompously informing me that I must have been abused as a child and was repressing my childhood memories because of that. I have maybe 5 memories from the age of 10 and under. Experiments have shown that at 3 months, babies can remember new pictures or toys shown to them one to six days previously.

He'll also be able to imitate actions he's seen as long as a week before. I have vague recollections of things when family members talk about the past or when I look at a photo it seems that I can remember that photo being taken and where we are, but nothing before or after photos are taken. I still vividly remember a trip to a large, newly constructed hydro-electric dam and to Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey circus under the Big Top (tent) before age 4. I remember being disturbed at the fact that I couldn't remember much of my very early childhood years, and that everything before seven or eight was kind of a blur. Why can't I remember anything before age 5, but my 3 year old kid can remember things from last year? Very few people remember anything from before the age of two. She can’t just do one thing, she used to do four things before getting anything accomplished, now will do about 38 other things in the process of doing just one thing. Most children can recall memories from when they are around 3.5 years of age. I just don't really understand. Maybe before that age you are building up words and perhaps concepts that provide you with a base to think in a little broader way.

I can barely remember anything before yesterday unless it really stands out, the further back in time I go the worse it is. Most people cannot remember anything from before age 3 due to childhood amnesia. I’m 19 and I can barely remember anything from below the age of 17?