Is extremely early memory associated with Autism?

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I have a couple memories from when I was 2

1) I was taking a nap in the middle of the day, I was falling asleep and my room had turned into the st near my preschool and I found it scary at the time so I woke up and I ran to my parents room.
2) I was peeling a banana near my preschool and I was with my dad.

My earliest memories are of age three, riding my tricycle and singing the national anthem at the top of my voice along my street. I also remember the local church being built at the same time - I still love the smell of building sites. Most NT people think three is early but judging by this thread it was late.

Oh yes. Freshly-cut wood, cement, sand, and deeply-dug earth.
Delish.

It'a like I'm there.

Mmmmm fresh paint.

i remember my cousin being born just after my 3rd birthday (and parts of the pregnancy before, I was concerned that one of my distant Irish uncles would arrive at the hospital and hold him before me). I also have lots of memories from the first house I lived at, which we moved out of before I was 4.

hmm I have almost no memories of my childhood. When I say that I mean before 18 not before 3... I remember maybe a dozen scenes but that's about it. Wonder what's wrong with me.

I have memories back to when I was two. I was in a hospital for a couple of weeks so they're fairly distinctive memories.

If this thread is anything to judge by it seems so, whereas I can't recall many memories of this age, more like fuzzy recollections on old films. Images such as my Mums dark green home nit jersey with the Nappy pins always on it. I can recall the way it smelled and was warm, some views of our house. But nothing with words, and nothing very precise.

I don't remember anything of when I was a baby under 3, only one or two vague snapshops, but everybody does. I don't even remember being 3, I only remember a few moments at preschool when I was 3. And I remember more of when I was at school at 4 and 5 than I remember at home when I was 4 and 5. I have more memories as I got to about 7, at home and at school, and the memories grow stronger as I got to my teens.

I thought that was normal.

Yep. I'm not like autistics or NTs in this regard.

Very good working memory/rote memory and short term memory for maybe...up to one year.

Autobiographical memory is toast, I struggle with remembering people and events from two years ago but have a good grasp of important events from around the world and history.

This sucks for things like math, NTs hang onto it for years somehow. I don't have much trouble learning it but it's GONE after about a year.

I do hang onto trivia like nobody's business though, and foreign language.

My earliest detailed memory is at 2. I was sat in the basin of the kitchen sink for a bath by my mother. I sat legs crossed and remember her tender care of gently washing me, and talking her way through it. She used a very thin piece of material ( a swatch) and it was bright yellow in color. And I recall she used the detachable faucet for the rinse.
Memories are cool.

In link below are early memories by someone who is Gifted and is involved in creating IQ tests, and btw, has applied this knowledge to his experience with IQ testing with AS. http://www.paulcooijmans.com/psychology ... ories.html

I find him an interesting read.

I've been waiting for someone to post this...for a long, long time!

Yes I do have an extremely early memory. I remember reading at age one and a half...I matched up the age with my mom. I was reading a mineral water label in the middle of a field while my dad used the little lid to feed me the drink.
Of course back then I couldn't speak yet. So they knew nothing about me reading Chinese at age one. I don't know if this is scientifically possible but it is absolutely true. The memory was so vivid. I even recall pondering how water seeps through the layers of rock, as written on the label.
But when I told my mom......
My mom seriously freaked out.

Here is the earliest memory that I clearly have. It was late evening and growing very dark. My parents placed me on the center section of the sectional couch. Dad was on one end, and Mom on the other. And I lay there listening to the strong claps of thunder as lightning illuminated the house. The lightning became the only lights in the house as the electricity went out. Then there was a tremendous rushing of wind outside as Mom and Dad secured me between them.

That event happened during the spring of 1965 when I was six months old. There was a tornado only a few miles away from our house. It is still a vivid clear memory.

I also have very clear memories of a tornado that struck our community in 1968 when I was three years old. I remember what we were doing before it struck, during the wind, and what we did afterwards---we went to the grocery store (there was hail everywhere and a lot of our house's paint had peeled off along with several shingles).

Must be around 4 or 5 years old... I guess I'm atypical for a aspie in that way.

I can remember things back to when I was around two years old. Silly things. Yet my short term memory is horrible.

I may be a little different. The first birthday I remember was my 5th birthday. Prior to about 4.5, I don't remember anything. And this isn't something that I remembered in childhood and forgot as an adult, because I remember as an elementary school child making the observation that I didn't remember anything from prior to about 4.5.