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If that study is correct https://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/35/12144.abstract https://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/35/12144.abstract, considering the number o

by pingou 2y ago

If that study is correct https://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/35/12144.abstract https://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/35/12144.abstract, considering the number of times you must have recalled them, what you remember must be significantly different than what happened, especially since you were probably missing a lot of understanding as an infant.

ryao 2y ago
It is not that significantly different, although my poor understanding certainly left people with that impression. I thought the nurse in the hospital on the day I was born was an aunt. As a young child, I would later describe my baptism at 9 months of age as being dunked. It was not that I meant that I was literally dunked into the water. I simply thought the sensation of water dripping to the back of my head was being dunked. I also had been terrified during my baptism since I thought the deacon was trying to drown me. My parents were so thrilled that I was not crying like the other children while in reality, the reason I was silent was because I terrified about actually being immersed into water and drowned. That said, at the time, I did not really understand how to disambiguate what I had regarded to be dunking from immersion, even though I had the faint concept that the air supply could be severed by being immersed in water, which is why I had been terrified. I recall one time when I was around 2 years old and my parents took me to Pizza Hut. When asked about toppings and hearing that we could have three, I said I wanted extra extra extra cheese. They thought I was being cute. However, I had no concept of cuteness or how to be it. I simply wanted all 3 toppings to be extra cheese and to my disappointment, 2 of the toppings were not. At the time, I had not known how to say 3 toppings of extra cheese and I thought repeating extra three times would communicate what I wanted. That said, I stopped playing my memory recall game around age 5 when I began to be bullied and did not want to remember the past anymore. That left me with far fewer memories from early grade school than I had from prior years. It also let many of my early memories fade, although not enough for me to forget them entirely.
- Feathercrown 2y ago
  > However, I had no concept of cuteness or how to be it. My memory isn't as good as yours, but you just reminded me of this fairly distinct feeling. As a child you're being earnest; only as an adult do you see that as being cute.

by pingou 2y ago

ryao 2y ago

It is not that significantly different, although my poor understanding certainly left people with that impression. I thought the nurse in the hospital on the day I was born was an aunt. As a young child, I would later describe my baptism at 9 months of age as being dunked. It was not that I meant that I was literally dunked into the water. I simply thought the sensation of water dripping to the back of my head was being dunked. I also had been terrified during my baptism since I thought the deacon was trying to drown me. My parents were so thrilled that I was not crying like the other children while in reality, the reason I was silent was because I terrified about actually being immersed into water and drowned. That said, at the time, I did not really understand how to disambiguate what I had regarded to be dunking from immersion, even though I had the faint concept that the air supply could be severed by being immersed in water, which is why I had been terrified. I recall one time when I was around 2 years old and my parents took me to Pizza Hut. When asked about toppings and hearing that we could have three, I said I wanted extra extra extra cheese. They thought I was being cute. However, I had no concept of cuteness or how to be it. I simply wanted all 3 toppings to be extra cheese and to my disappointment, 2 of the toppings were not. At the time, I had not known how to say 3 toppings of extra cheese and I thought repeating extra three times would communicate what I wanted. That said, I stopped playing my memory recall game around age 5 when I began to be bullied and did not want to remember the past anymore. That left me with far fewer memories from early grade school than I had from prior years. It also let many of my early memories fade, although not enough for me to forget them entirely.

Feathercrown 2y ago
> However, I had no concept of cuteness or how to be it. My memory isn't as good as yours, but you just reminded me of this fairly distinct feeling. As a child you're being earnest; only as an adult do you see that as being cute.