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[Steve]

So... Some people have really early memories, some can't remember yesterday, but what is your earliest memory? My first was on my third birthday. I remember conversations with my mother about how I loved art and wanted a painting set for my birthday and then she took a present from the old fireplace (long story short, the fireplace was used as storage) and I opened it to find a big jot-pad and a lot of paints. Best birthday ever, I was so happy. Too bad I ruined my pad within a couple of days I'd painted on the pad and closed the book for it to dry, not knowing that it would stick pages together and my beautiful creations couldn't be shown any more. In my defence, I was 3.

So yeah, earliest memories? _{This idea may or may not have been stolen from another forum}

[Gangsta Fag]

Being initiated into the tribe by my uncle. I had to be at least 2, 2 1/2

[QWERTYASDFGH]

Wow.. I can't really think back so far. I have to say the earliest memory I can remember was when I was four. I remember this because my older sister went to school and I was left alone with my grandparents at their house for the first time. I stood at the door waiting for her to come back home like a sad puppy. lol.

[Lightning.]

I remember being 4/5 and in Florida in the sesame st water park and myself and my parents moved from one section to another and I remember not being too happy about that so I went back on my own to the other pool much to my parents dismay haha. I remember my dad being really mad and an american man telling him not to shout/swearing at me, dad laid into him and called him a cunt and everything. I appreciate the memory even more now

[Fujoshi Otaku]

I think my earliest memory was crawling over some cardboard boxes. I think we were moving house. D: I can't really remember it anymore, though. I just know it's what I always used to say my first memory was. X3
If that doesn't count...Urm...Maybe sneaking off to some birthday/Halloween party with my mum when I was about three. We weren't allowed to celebrate either. It was awesome.

[xxmidnightturmoilxx]

lets see when i was young like 4th grade probably there was this girl who lived next to me we were really good friends anyway long story short are moms used to catch us kissing all the time, thinking back it was really funny lol

[finality]

I remember my mom asking me if I wanted to start school or wait another year, so I was 4 then. I can't think of anything earlier right now. A lot of my childhood memories are weird, like I remember vague impressions of rooms but don't know what the room is or where it is.

Actually I remember when my mom got her first mobile phone. It was in a box on top of this piano we used to have, and I asked her what it was. She was resisting new technology at the time and didn't want to use it at first, and I encouraged her to. It was this!

That must've been around 2001, not exactly earliest memory but strange nonetheless. Mobile phones were just starting to become widespread. 2001 was probably when we got our first computer, too. I used to use MS paint any opportunity I got, that was extremely exciting for a 7 year old back then! Wow, really strange to think how much things have changed in just around 10 years.

Hmm, I can't really remember what I used to do before I started school. I think most of my earliest memories are school related.
Actually, this was the first cd I ever owned:


oh my god, remember these??

[LionJess]

I'm not exactly sure if it's my earliest memory, but I'm gonna go with it nonetheless.
Having chicken pox at three.


Then again, my fourth birthday I think. Spent it in hospital getting my tonsils out. I can vaguely remember being frustrated that noone could understand me, my mother told me I sounded like donald duck and I made absolutely no sense, she was scared she wouldn't ever be able to understand me again. awwww.

I can also remember being 4ish and stealing my mothers Estee Lauder lipstick to take to playschool.

[Steve]

@Noctowl: I can understand that, to be fair. If it was my dad he'd probably have done the same

@Dimensional Witch: You used to sneak off to parties as young as three?! That's pretty crazy, I don't think I was even allowed outside of my street until I was 13, then again I did live in a rough area... Escaping my parent's watch was like escaping from Alcatraz in a fluorescent pink suit.

@MidnightTurmoil: How old is 4th Grade? That's young to be making out, I think. I kissed my first girl at 10 though to be fair.

@yinfaitl: Oh my god you just nostalgia'd the thread up. I remember the phone and the game bricks. Specifically there were a tonne of settings you could have on it, 99 I think. The funny part was about 80 of those 99 games were just different versions of tetris

@Jess: That's so cute your mum was worried about you. I used to have asthma pretty bad (it's gone now) and have attacks all the time. It was upsetting for my mum, I'm sure. I don't know why, but every time I have those traditional cough sweets, it reminds me of the time I was in hospital. I think my dad gave me some to cheer me up while I was on a hospital bed or something, the memories are really vague and flaky.

Also: I have a tonne of childhood memories, but I have no recollection of how old I really was, so I usually say "I was 7 when..." when referring to a memory. Anyone else do that or am I just weird?

Also also: I remember this one time I went downstairs at about 5 years old to try a cigarette. I saw my parents do it so I thought it would be cool to pick one up and smoke one. I didn't manage to light it though and I was caught haha

[Nereus]

I was about 3 or so, and my aunt and grandma were taking my brother (who is older than me by 7 years) to Washington DC for a weekend trip. I thought I was going, so I ran to the front door. I was all excited, until I found out I wasn't going. I remember being in the window crying as I watched my grandma, my aunt, and my brother driving off.

[Mindy Simmons]

I don't know that I can point out one specific memory as being earlier than another, that shit all blurs together going back far enough. Not a lot of it is good or worth talking about.

I remember getting my tonsils out when I was three. The medicine made me throw up and they tried to bribe me into taking it by offering me jello if I did (I hate jello). I watched "The Fox and the Hound" on VHS while at the hospital.

I remember breaking a wishbone with my dad when I was three. I wished for a doll.

I remember, again while I was three (although I did it when I was a little older too), lying under the coffee table and drawing pictures with crayons on the underside because I figured my parents would never notice it there. We still have the same coffee table, and you can still see my beautiful artwork if you look under it.

[DirtyMindedLittleGirl]

the earliest i can remember had to be when i was around 4ish and playing murder in the dark with my whole family and hiding in the washing machine, but was found underneath towels.. i did win. Also hiding in the shoes cuboard, kitchen cuboards an well any other space that i could fit myself in. i remember staying quiet for hours on end. i loved the fact that i was hidden almost invisible.. i miss being a kid.

[Fizz]

Coming home from kindergarten.

[Anne-Marie]

I remember being 4/5 and in Florida in the sesame st water park and myself and my parents moved from one section to another and I remember not being too happy about that so I went back on my own to the other pool much to my parents dismay haha. I remember my dad being really mad and an american man telling him not to shout/swearing at me, dad laid into him and called him a cunt and everything. I appreciate the memory even more now

That is so sweet.

Also: I have a tonne of childhood memories, but I have no recollection of how old I really was, so I usually say "I was 7 when..." when referring to a memory. Anyone else do that or am I just weird?

This. If I'm talking about a childhood memory, I'll try to kind of locate it and say I was either 4 or 7.

I have a very vague memory of realizing my mom's name isn't "mother" I must have been really young then.

I can also remember this one time I ate something from the ground and had to take medicinal charcoal. It was mixed in with yoghurt and it tasted awful but I ate the entire bowl without even once admitting I had eaten anything off the ground I was 3 at the time.

Oh and one time, a man offered me cheese in the elevator. I think I was maybe 3 or 4 at the time. I just politely said "No, thank you"

[~Eyeliner&Cigarettes~]

I can't remember which came first xD

I remember being in nursery and lining up to go to lunch.
I remember being sent to my cot because I was too naughty
I remember moving into my bedroom. I played with my toys on different rungs of the ladder when my Granddad was painting the walls.

[PageNotFound404]

oh my god, remember these??

When I was 8 I wanted a Gameboy for my birthday, I asked my mum and she bought me one of these instead.
I had fun though No amount of the word "Super" could improve any of these games, except for Froggers.

[wishwashy]

my best friend and i started out in wombs together. My first memory is he and I chatting it up at age 2. Philosophy of childhood, of mercy towards the new world order, flying in the face of it for our compassionate egotism, our outlook on life and our friends Andrew and Hailey who we had a tightnit group with. Thank heavens for The Leche League that braught us all together before birth.

[lonerinschool]

my first memory was probably when i was 2 or 3 it was of my crawling into the kitchen and taking a drink of milk straight out of the bottle

[Existentialism]

Funny enough, my first memory is at about one year old. I had a memory of crawling on a pink and blue blanket with a set of toy keys. I thought it was something I made up in my mind because I've never heard of anyone having a memory at that early an age. But I happened to find a picture of me crawling on the same blanket with the same set of keys. Now I'm not sure if I actually remember it, or I had made the memory after seeing the picture and just don't remember seeing the picture the first time.

Besides that, another early memory is laying with my grandma in a hammock, gazing at the stars and singing songs when I was about three to four. Pretty peaceful memory.