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At what age do our infant memory commence?
« on: Thursday 12 December 24 17:59 GMT (UK) »
I have just heard that the excellent BBC radio documentary series SHORT CUTS is now being scrapped. 

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Re: At what age do our infant memory commence?
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 12 December 24 18:47 GMT (UK) »
As we are human beings and not robots, then that is a question that has no finite answer.  We're all different, aren't we?

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Re: At what age do our infant memory commence?
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 12 December 24 19:23 GMT (UK) »

I can certainly remember being in my pram!

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Re: At what age do our infant memory commence?
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 12 December 24 19:32 GMT (UK) »
In my 70s, I am surprise at the vivid and rich quality of the recent returning infant memories or trauma of witnessing familial abuse.


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Re: At what age do our infant memory commence?
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 12 December 24 20:33 GMT (UK) »
At a family gathering when I was in my early 20s, I accurately described the wall and window that I could see from my cot in my room in India. We left India before my 2nd birthday. 

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Re: At what age do our infant memory commence?
« Reply #5 on: Friday 13 December 24 01:56 GMT (UK) »
My earliest memory was being in a cot or play pen when my parents were having a loud argument in their bedroom. (Must have been the noise upsetting me for me to remember it  :o )
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Re: At what age do our infant memory commence?
« Reply #6 on: Friday 13 December 24 08:36 GMT (UK) »
I can remember the house we lived in when I was two. And the ones we lived in when I was three and four. As you can see, we moved quite a lot when I was small.

I have a theory that our very early memories are linked to an event we may have experienced as traumatic (even though it may not have been to our parents!). My daughter's first memory is from shortly before we moved house when she was 4 (long distance), and she displayed unmistakable signs of trauma when we moved again just two years later (this time just round the corner!)
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Re: At what age do our infant memory commence?
« Reply #7 on: Friday 13 December 24 09:46 GMT (UK) »
I have two recollections of being in my pram.  One was outside our front door, but the other was half a mile away, passing where my grandmother would take me for a walk every Thursday until I started school.  I think she stopped to talk to somebody, and what I remember is seeing men working on a row of half-built houses.  A novel experience!  I still think about that if I go that way.

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Re: At what age do our infant memory commence?
« Reply #8 on: Friday 13 December 24 09:50 GMT (UK) »
My earliest memories are from four years old. Nothing before that.