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Without a Single Joke: 98% of my "Childhood Memories" are TV + Videogames. Tbf, I grew up isolated per se: Edge of a small town. Coined "the weird kid" in school -so any "friends" either got bullied …
I don't know the difference between what's real or not anymore — I don't really know where to start other than this experience was over the weekend, and it made me see things in a different way. On Saturday night, I took a gummy, I dabble in it to help with my anxi…
A couple great tips for easier Revision. — Revision is an extremely important yet underrated technique. After going through an event that "future" manifesting just wouldn't solve, I knew the only thing that would fix this situation is to chang…
Anyone not have many childhood memories? — Like I just draw blank a lot of the time when trying to remember childhood, what happened at home, what things felt like, etc. My brothers often talk about how aggressive and dominating Dad would get…
I hate children so much(tw child abuse — I know I can’t say out loud irl and I know it’s unacceptable in society That hating children is a malice of society It’s just feeling it doesn’t lead to any action I named that hatred, discussed fo…
Has anyone had this experience during yoga nidra? — Started doing yoga nidra recently, mostly to use a sankalpa to recondition my social anxiety. I’ve been noticing something kinda weird though. At some point in the middle of the practice I start gett…
My (42F) husband (41M) grew a mustache that triggers my childhood trauma. He says I should get over it so he can do what he wants with his face. Am I being unfair in asking him to remove it? — I’ve been with my husband for thirteen years, and for most of that time, he has been clean-shaven. Recently, he decided he wants to try growing out a mustache "for a little while." The problem is not…
Does anyone find it hard to appreciate themselves — I dont have any childhood memories specifically in my home (all school memories are solid). But after growing up and started doing my therapy work, observed that I cant see anything good in me even th…
Anyone else constantly mourn the childhood of teens thet didn’t have had? — Almost every days I think back of my teens and how much I wish I had knew the universes that saved me in my early adulthood at that time. I would have struggled with the same problems, but Drizzt Do’…
No memory of being validated — I tried to think of childhood memories of being validated by parents, but couldn't. I only have memories of either receiving zero attention or negative attention. As for feelings, I feel very blank re…
Does this count as emotional neglect? — I have recently discovered that I might have been neglected by my parents, mostly my dad. I've struggled with my mental health for a long time and I'm slowly realizing that my childhood impacted me mo…
In my opinion? Research first, understand what the phenomena is. It is very broad, and extremely shocking if you ever get to interact with them! There is a mixed bag of a lot of different groups. Look…
Hahahaha that’s so fair. I try my best to not label avoidants as evil people since they were also deeply affected by childhood memories. But yeah…..what most of them do is kinda evil
I didn't have a clue until a therapist pointed it out to me as I discussed my parents and family history. He said there was a "pattern of neglect" and those words changed everything for me. Now any ti…
Sometimes I don’t realize how traumatic some of my childhood memories are until I share what I think is a silly memory, only to see the listeners face as I’m wrapping it up 😅😅
I went from the golden child to the black sheep at 14yo. Apologized and went back to the golden child. Back to the black sheep at 16yo. Apologized again and went back to golden child (with caveats thi…
Peep my username, I actually age regress in private, trying to have a sense of happier childhood memories, and often do childlike things in private. I do also fawn though, I try to say things/act a …
I have a lot of my childhood memories blocked out, but I do remember my dad purposely scaring my brother and I. The two of us had pretty big bug phobias as children, and I remember once Dad killed a m…
I’ve always thought my mum had bipolar or something similar. I have early childhood memories of her screaming about aliens whilst trying to jump out the window. Then when I was in my teens she didn’t …
It’s wild how many of my childhood memories are me either sitting in a car or my mom dragging me to various stores while she leisurely shopped for hours upon hours, it’s actually disturbing in hindsig…
So, I know that ancedotally, I was regularly neglected in my pre-memory; and it's also such a consistent thing that probably 80-90% of my childhood memories include neglect of some sort or another. M…
My enabler parent tried to preemptively bully me into silence in my late forties before i even said I was abused. She asked me what I remember, it was a fishing expedition because, as I later found ou…
What I realized was off is that I have no good childhood memories. And I remember pretty much ALL of it. I don’t think I really started having any positive experiences until well into adulthood. I eve…
I remember a youtube video on this, and when asked, the therapist said—and I'm paraphrasing—that patients eventually reach a dark place. And he didn't say how it's supposed to be treated. Perhaps he w…
You literally just unlocked one of my childhood memories. I asked my mom why so many of the gifts my family gets for each other are just things the giver would like. She said “that’s just what you do.…
Not only do I not have many childhood memories, I don't really remember much from my teenage and adolescent years either (I'm 40 for context). I read autobiographies sometimes and I'm always amazed a…
Not exactly the same but when my parents will "remember when" and it's even a happy memory I cringe and feel shame and sadness. The trauma and the struggle I went through to overcome it, it's like all…
I did (31F). We had an amazing surprise present about a month into dating. I grew up in a(n extremely traumatic and neglectful) household that believed families couldn’t be happy if parents were divor…
Most hurtful? Can't remember what had the biggest effect. But the one I'll never forget despite having very few childhood memories: My father. "All women are bitches." And I asked, "even me Daddy?…
What. My childhood memories are jpegs not videos cos i guess maybe they werent fully enjoyabl/safe enough to be that present. The memories i replay as videos are the more “good” memories in young adul…
Yeah I have a huge lack of childhood memories but I also lack a lot of memories in general and I'm not sure what's from dissasociative tendencies, what's from cptsd, and what's from having aphantasia.…
Thank you for posting this! I woke up this morning thinking about an experience I had as a child that I was planning to share here today, and yours was the first I saw! When I was 5, in 1978, I woke …
> -I assumed most families had a private more sinister cruel side to them. This is the biggest one. It is still odd to me to see people post photos on facebook vacationing with their parents, or gran…
This. This a thousand times. He is choosing this. He is choosing to make you fund his lifestyle. Your kids deserve better. You deserve better. And when he complains you tell him this is what he ch…
You rightly said he's picked this up from his mother, so you know it's probable that your kids will pick this up from him. But I have a theory about why he's continuing to do it even though you've tri…
Ordinary childhood memories can be fuzzy and disjointed, but you have a timeline of roughly where they fit in your life story, what event/s you’re remembering, and they feel quite distant and long pas…
Hey. Sorry that you’re going through this. Your husband needs therapy, as well as his sister. I don’t want to diagnose anyone online, but there are strong undertones of a still-unresolved childhood…
I am also pretty sensitive compared to others, it always blows my mind to think that people eat a 10 strip at once. At two my soul is leaving my body and I'm relieving childhood memories in the first …
Tell me about one of your favorite childhood memories or a day a stranger did something kind for you that stopped you in your tracks :)
Yeah I used to get stuff like this when smoking weed. I had just gone to college and went from smoking rural ditch weed to real medical grade stuff. This was like 15 years ago, so strong weed wasn't t…
It took me 45 years and therapy to be flooded by childhood memories I wished had stayed burried in the dungeons of mu head. Then the grief came. I hope my kids will have better memories.
You will move on when you realise you just love yourself more than you loved him. You will move on, There will be a day when you won't even remember his face. All the memories will be faded. Just like…
Yeah but it was as it was actually happening. He was narrating it as I was experiencing it… hours of therapy talk regurgitated to tell me he was traumatised, and i was triggering it and then doing th…
I feel sorry for you 💔 I'm 16 and I've also got stripped from the normal life any decent person lives, I have no happy childhood memories (all I remember is being locked up in the house crying over p…
He is abusive and your children will have emotional trauma from growing up with this. Please leave for their sake. I grew up feeling the constant tension in the house too and it has pretty much ruined…
Abuse. The childhood memories I have of my mother abusing me are blurry and repressed. The time she abused me in my 30s was the last time she will ever see me. I keep me safe now. I can conjure no exc…
It's also just something little kids do sometimes. Recovered repressed memories have become kind of controversial in modern psychology. People are very open to suggestion, especially when it comes to …
Mine was the black sheep and his sister the golden child. He has zero childhood memories with her and they don’t talk. Ever. It was weird and awkward when we did see her. She’s very enmeshed with her …
If you don't mind speculation from a random internet stranger my guess would be that as a child you either only received love for accomplishment or that you recieved abuse for "mistakes." So your nerv…