Does anyone remember anything before they were born?

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That was very fascinating. Thank you for sharing.



I have attributed my daughter's ease into our family schedule and her food choices to her time in utero.

My first (a son, with AS), didn't quickly adapt to going to sleep (much like most babies). When he was a toddler, we found he needed a very consistent routine. We also discovered he had a large number of food allergies. In general, his body and personality was "suspicious". I was under a lot of stress while I was pregnant with him, and while not a suspicious person myself, I went to a lot of trouble to avoid some very common events in pregnancy...and I stressed a lot about it.

By the time I was pregnant with my daughter, I was nursing a toddler who was on a highly-restricted diet...so I had to be also. The most surprising of her food choices is that she does not like bread of any kind...even cake. She eat small bits occasionally, but she simply doesn't care for it. I ate no gluten during my pregnancy with her. I was also participating in my son's very consistent routine. Even if I didn't sleep when he did (which I often did), I would be quieter, calmer, and spent more time in darkened rooms. My daughter adapted to this schedule immediately after birth.

^^^I'm glad you liked it. I came across that in a drug abuse/counseling class I took last term. I thought it was fascinating too, so, I kept the link.

I thought the story about mothers during WWII was really interesting... I see a lot of women who try to keep their weight down during pregnancy. They could be doing a lot of damage to their child's future health.

Yes, everyone.

While current thinking does suggest that very young children are capable of forming memories, these are regularly displaced until memory starts to crystalize around age 10. So a child of 4 can remember a specific "earliest" memory, but if you talk to the same child two years later, not only will they have a different, more recent "earliest" memory, but they will also have no recall of the events that they previously reported as their earliest memory.

The infant brain is engaged in such an onslaught of development and learning that experiential memory is routinely written over.

I can still remember the first phone number I ever had.

Yes, but how old were you the first time you learned it? How many times did you have to learn it before you remembered it? I imagine that you were well out of infancy before you ever learned that telephone number.

I learned it right away at age four. My memory was phenomenal at the time and counting was my specialty. I loved to count and people remarked at how good I was at such a young age it impressed them.

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I do not remember being born but I believe that you do. Are you in any way like that Marilu Henner [or Tempe Grandin for that matter] who remembers everything?

I remember watching the first moon launch on tv.

At a young age my memory was better than it is now. I had a surgery and afterwards it wasn't as good as it was before.
I don't remember everything, just certain things. I don't remember my own delivery, for example. My mom used to rely on my memory a lot back then so it must have been above average. She used me as a kind of human tape recorder. Now she tries to do the same, tells me to remember things for her but I am not nearly so astute.
Another memory I have is with my father. He was in the army and stationed in Georgia. The barracks he worked at had this really obnoxious, dark green tiles like none I ever saw before. This had to been before the age of four because I haven't been there since that age. I vividly remember being fascinated by the color of that floor and running and the sensation of being lifted up by my father who grabbed me.
I also remember my little rabbit fur puppy my father brought home from his tour of duty. It was my fave toy and I was so attached I tried to take a bath with it so my mom threw it out because it got soaked and she said it was ruined and couldn't be salvaged afterward.
Another memory I have is another puppy my dad got me, this time real, a little Chihauhau mix. Since we lived on base, there was no fencing so my parents kept him outside on a little chain from time to time, on the patio. I distinctly remember he liked to run around and around, wrapping my legs in the chain so I would fall over and start screaming. Again, had to be before the age of four. I also remember the other dog, a cranky, red standard Dachshund my dad watched for a friend who went overseas. He would bite me every once in a while. I remember getting stickers, too, when near this little concrete area behind a fence that had sticker weeds growing across it. The time the ants bit me and the giant ant hill behind my home is very clear to me. I played there and it was full of ants with these holes they made. I thought it was the strangest place ever. The soil was all red. So I have many memories from before the age of four and I can separate them out because I lived in an entirely different environment than where I moved.

WOW. Where's the link???? I really would like to see it because everything you said goes against what I remember. I really doubt the theory you propose will cover all circumstances. Please provide the link. Thanks.

P.S. Does it specifically speak of memory in terms of Asperger or other autistic children growing up???

denny