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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • 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 — 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