What's your oldest remembered memory?

failinis · 03-07-2016 07:07PM

Cristiano Quick Mathematician wrote: »

Hiding at the side of my house while a helicopter was overhead. I was so scared of the helicopter and of the noise. It was flying quite low. My mother trying to get me to come out (no space between us and neighbours house and she couldn't reach me). I was terrified of the helicopter and I was crying. I was 2 years of age. Remember it quite clearly actually. My mum can't really remember it at all but it was a real trauma for me at the time!!!!

I think I was 3 or 4 and in the back yard, blue skies and must have been summer.
The field by the house was often used by the army and they landed a chinook there and I remember being scared, how loud! The men with guns leaning out with brown mud painted faces so just eyes and teeth. Ran crying into the house! :pac:

I remember since then any time a chinook was out I used to run to the porch/inside then.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 03-07-2016 07:20PM

I can remember sitting in my high chair and the sensation of a dirty nappy, and trying to tell my mother and her coming over asking what was wrong and me flipping out because I was just after telling her! Apparently babies can often understand speech before they can manage to actually speak, I was quick to learn to talk but I definitely remember that sense of frustration at people not understanding me.

Also going to see my baby cousins when they were born, I would have been three. They were tiny and in incubators, remember getting up on my tippy toes to see them and then someone lifting me

gigantic09 · 03-07-2016 08:12PM

Remember the day elvis died.was over at the hospital with the aul lad as sister was born that morning.Can clearly remember the news flash on the car radio.I was 3 1/4.

Speedwell · 03-07-2016 11:11PM

Alberto Thundering Shoelace wrote: »

I can remember sitting in my high chair and the sensation of a dirty nappy, and trying to tell my mother and her coming over asking what was wrong and me flipping out because I was just after telling her! Apparently babies can often understand speech before they can manage to actually speak, I was quick to learn to talk but I definitely remember that sense of frustration at people not understanding me.

Ah, f*ck. You made me remember when I was wee and that sort of thing happened. I was so goddamn frustrated all the time that I made up my mind I would NOT EVEN BOTHER TO TALK until I could do it like big people could. F8ck that sh!t. If I couldn't do it right, I wasn't going to do it at all. In the end up, they thought I was retarded except for the fact that I was shown to be able to read since I was 29 months old (they had me point at words in the newspaper). One day when I was almost four I cautiously started talking in complete sentences and shocked everyone p!ssless. But it all came from just being completely fed up when I was very small.

Lady is a tramp · 06-07-2016 08:27PM

I was sexually abused by a relation, it started when I was around 3 (or at least that's the first incident I remember.)

Shortly afterwards, I stopped using my left leg. As in, in my mind, it was no longer there. My mum was away for several weeks as my younger brother was born with a serious heart condition, and when she came back, my leg was shrunken to half the size of the other one (OK my mum is prone to exaggeration!)

I remember her bringing me to various doctors etc, and after all the scans and Xrays, it was decided it was psychosomatic. My mum assumed it was due to the trauma of being separated from her for those few weeks, and told everyone that.

But every time she told anyone that, I saw my uncle snapping off the left leg of a doll he'd bought me, at her hip. Before the rest of the stuff that he did to me happened. And I didn't know why she couldn't understand that that's when my leg broke off, too, but I didn't know how to explain it to her.

Grim stuff. Sorry!

Avatar MIA · 06-07-2016 08:35PM

Lady is a tramp wrote: »

Grim stuff.

True, but thanks for sharing.

I do hope justice was served, but more likely not I imagine.

Okay, what's your earliest happy memory, Lady?

LenaClaire · 06-07-2016 10:07PM

We were broke when I was little, and my dad had a bicycle he used to get to work each day.

I was talking to my mom the other day, about when the bicycle got stolen from our yard, and she was surprised that I remembered it as I was not much past 2 when it happened.

CFlat · 06-07-2016 11:31PM

I remember my first day in school 'cause I saw a nun for the first time and I nearly screamed the school down when she came over to us. I suppose I must have been 4.

Avatar MIA · 06-07-2016 11:34PM

CFlat wrote: »

I remember my first day in school 'cause I saw a nun for the first time and I nearly screamed the school down when she came over to us. I suppose I must have been 4.

Walking to school on my first day with my mum, with her telling me the name of my teacher and getting me to repeat it is one of my most favourite memories.

What's your oldest remembered memory?

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