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Maybe it's due to my lack of experience raising children but a lot of this seems very bizarre. A sixteen year old remembering events from when they were three?
by Causality1 5y ago
Maybe it's due to my lack of experience raising children but a lot of this seems very bizarre. A sixteen year old remembering events from when they were three? Staying up till three AM talking to their parent? Being scared of other people seeing them as stupid before the age of three? The article doesn't come out and say whether this child was diagnosed by a professional but it seems obvious to me that they should've been. I hope they received treatment and beneficial accommodations.
- josephg 5y agoThe specifics all sound borderline traumatic for the child, so if he remembers anything at all he'll remember these events in particular. I've got plenty of memories from about the age of 5 - almost all of them scary or embarrassing for little me. And I'm nearing 40. When I was 16 could I still remember stuff from the age of 3? I wouldn't be surprised. I remember loving ducks and trains for some reason when I was about that age. But I don't have a lot of specifics.
- philipswood 5y agoYeah, fear-tinged memories seem to stand out: I can remember being in my parent's bed on a moonlit night, them asleep, being scared at the shadows of the trees on the windows. The shadows looked like monsters. This happened in a small town we moved from when I was 4 or 5. Strangely a lot of these memories were "un-indexed". I had no association to recall them with until my son was about that age and when he had similar experiences I recalled mine.
- simonh 5y agoI’m afraid it’s your lack of experience with kids. Mine are 16 and 17 now and all this seems perfectly credible. Kids often get bent out of shape by things in their childhood. It’s part of growing up, and part of the job of a parent to spot these things and figure out what to do about it.