So is it true

[TOY]

That if you can remember stuff before turning 5 years old, you're considered a genius?


I really like these triangle teabags :"D

[mikizee]

fuck, my earliest memory is when i was 18 months old. sitting in my hairchair, and my 3 yr old sister trying to put carrots in my mouth.

I have lots of memories from when i was 2, 3 4 and 5.

i must be the smartest man in the history of the world, then.

[Caribou]

I have a memory of going to see my grandma when I was little. We had to walk up a very long staircase and I remember her opening the door and greeting us very cheerily, and her dog sort of running around me.

Then one day we (my parents and I) drove past these houses that looked exactly like those from my memory. I asked my mum about this and she told me that my gran had lived there... But she moved out before my first birthday. This freaked us both out a little bit.

[TOY]

I have memories of laying on my mother's bed while she would be getting ready for whatever errands and my sister torturing me (like tickling, pulling hair - all that annoying, sisterly shit).

Then there are memories of being up at my dad's cabin and he tying my shoes.

And shopping malls

And the time I stuck those square-looking carrots up my nose and trying desperately to get them out myself

[BangkokB]

My earliest memory was my parents trying to leave me at a mall. But I remembered where they parked the car.


That was my 1st year out of highschool

[ggirlballa]

yea i don't remember shit before i was five

i guess i'm a dee duh dee

[Jitters]

I barely remember anything from my childhood.

My earliest memory was when I was around five years old and played my first video game :)

[QueenAdrock]

My very earliest memory was from when I was in the hospital, I remember looking up and seeing a little girl's face on a piece of paper attached to my incubator to signify I was a girl, and looking back on photos it said my last name under that picture. My parents say I was probably just making the memory up, though, because that was a few days in the hospital. I dunno.

My first definite memory was shoving my hands in my smurf cake when I turned 2 years old. I described it to a tee and my parents confirmed what I said. I don't think that means I'm a genius, though.

[befsquire]

i have tons of memories from before i was five, but i don't feel i'm a genius at all.

[Documad]

I have many vivid memories, but I'm pretty sure that I made them all up, based on things my parents and siblings told me, photos, movies, and my own imagination.

[Chicka B]

It seems that all my memories from before I was five are all very traumatizing. I'll just list them:

- when I was almost 2, we moved into this new apartment and the dude was fixing something in the shower, he went to stand up on the tub and his leg fell off.
- when I was almost 3 I got pushed down a huge flight of stairs by this little yappy dog, I still got a scar on my forehead.
-when I was 3 I was walking across railroad tracks and fell and got 2 black eyes.
- annoying my older half brother (he was 13 at the time and I was about 4), he was tryin to build this tent for me! And I kept knockin it down and laughing, and I remember him gettin beat red and really mad but I kept laughin and knockin it down. Finally he got so mad he started hitting me and my dad had whip him.
- my brother makin me ride on his skateboard with him, of course we crashed
- The flood of 1993, I was throwin a fit 'cause I wanted to swim in it but instead my mom made me stay in and watch coneheads :p
- this guy had a slip 'n slide and every kid in the neighborhood got in line (including me) and he would pick them up and throw them on it and they'd go really fast. Well when it got to me I was kinda scared, but he just picked me up and threw me on it and it HURT! My ribs were sore for a long ass time.
- goin to my great grandma's and stealin all the quarters all over her floor, my mom was like "Don't do that, it's rude!" and my grandma was always like "no let her, it's ok take it! JUST TAKE ALL MY MONEY!"
- Goin to get my picture taken and I pissed my pants, but my mom and dad made me go anyway
- Gettin this toy from a white castle's kid's meal thing, and I got dog shit on it and was teasin these older kids with it then they took it from me and wiped it on me
- Of course walkin in on my parents doin it, blegh. That's the most traumatizing thing ever.


These are all before I was even 4. And there's more probably, but those are the biggest ones.

[paul jones]

I remember watching The Banana Splits

[Lex Diamonds]

I don't remember anything before about a month ago.

[YoungRemy]

chicka B, its the same for me.., the life changing/traumatizing events are the ones that stick for me...

I remember my brother falling off his bike and knocking his tooth out... when I ask my mother when that happened, she says "you cant remember that, you were only two"

but i remember everything about it, from the Star Wars washcloths my grandmother used to soothe him to the Garfield twin bedsheets that i was lying on, just watching...

i even remember the memory from a horizontal angle, cause i was laying sideways...

my next memory was when my family moved from shreveport to houston... i was 3 years and half years old... I had a turtle shell toy box and they took it and put it on the 18 wheeler...

I remember all I cared about was "where are my toys going?" and "what the hell is Texas?"

and then my next memory was swimming in the pool of the apartment complex we were living in while the house was being built, there was a tube of lipstick candy floating in the pool... then we went to the house, i stood above the balcony when it was still wood and nails...

and my mother was on the phone with her mother telling her the news that we made it to the new house...

[jabumbo]

chicka B, its the same for me.., the life changing/traumatizing events are the ones that stick for me...

it makes sense why you would remember that stuff though....



i had to go to the hospital when i was 2 to get stitches in my forehead and i dont remember a thing about it