PLEASE CHECK THIS OUT. Lemmy's own, and a good buddy of mine, Aeronmelon is going through some shit at the moment and could use some help. Check it out here and consider an upvote or a comment to push it into activity. Sorry, not something I do often or will be spamming. But I care about my friend and if I can get a couple more eyes on his situation then I'm going to try to do what I can.
I'm close to 40, and actually have a memory that goes uncommonly far back... like, I've considered looking up anyone researching memory about it.
According to what I've read, I shouldn't really remember things too much before 5 (other than episodic and false memories?). But I can still draw the layouts of the first two houses I lived in (first one I moved before 3, the second one I moved shortly after 3). And I can verify that the layouts I remember are pretty accurate. I can remember where furniture was, who's room was what, and other little memories like putting salt on a bunch of slugs, crying about not being allowed to trick-or-treat, being afraid of my own shadow once?... strangely far back and more vivid than just flashes of pictures
I also am highly suspicious that I'm somewhere on the spectrum (maybe mixed with ADHD, hard to parse that out). I used to toe-walk as a kid, audio processing issues, below-average facial recognition; it kinda all started adding up the more I considered it
I'm supposed to start therapy again soon and will probably need to see psych about my ADHD meds when I go โ so I guess we'll see what they think. But figured I'd throw my experience into the bag here as well, cause it's intrigued me for a while
TL;DR - my childhood memory seems to be a little uncommon