Is extremely early memory associated with Autism?

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I have teeny little vague memories what only last for about a second, of being under 3, but I only have about 4 or 5 of these very vague memories, otherwise I don't remember being under 3 at all. But most NTs that I know have said the same thing about their memories of being under 3.

My memories broaden as I got older, which everyone's does. At ages 4-7, I remember more of being at the Infant's school than I do of being at home. At age 7-11, I have a lot of memories of being at Primary school and also more of at home (or other places that weren't school). And I have even stronger memories of being 11-16 both at the High school and at home (and various other places), and these memories are so vivid that it seems like it was only yesterday. And ages 16 to this present day are even more stronger.

I remember all my birthdays right from the age of about 9 to my last birthday I had so far, and I remember Christmases from the age of 10 right to the last Christmas I had too, if I remember rightly. But I recall these memories depending more on the atmospheres than anything else, which is complicated to explain.

My earliest memory was laying in my crib listening to mysterious sounds that came in intervals. I liked the sounds and turned from side to side while listening. I have two memories before the age of two and they had a mysterious eerie quality to them. Most of my memories start at age 2. My short term working memory is rubbish.

I remember the old house in vivid detail right down to the dirt basement, a few memorys playing, working in the garage, the old cars they drove, mom and dad still being a family etc. The devorce happened then I was maybe 3-early 4 so that pegs meny of these at 3 and below. I remember preschool and daycare like yesterday, we moved to a small town for a year 5-mid 6 and I remember every detail of life there. My NT cousion who had a 90%+ advridge in university studying quantom physics can't remember anything from this time eventhough we spent much of it together! I tick him off so much when I bring up these times , he envys my long turm memory! From 4 everything is so vivid though alot I wish I forgot so its not always all its cracked up to be.

Yes.

Having extremely early childhood memories is one of the possible Autistic traits mentioned in Dr. Tony Attwood's "The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome."

I can remember as a crawling baby hating the dog licking my face.

I was less then 18 months when I experienced the following memory, looking out the window at a man down below walking past the fire escape in the fog, and asking my Mother, "is that Daddy"?, she said "no", a shame the only memory of my Father and it wasn't even him.

Years later I went back to the address on my Birth certificate, and round the back, just as I remembered, where the fire escapes.

My first "snapshot" memory is from 9 months old.

I had pneumonia and was in an oxygen tent in hospital. Later when I was around 2, I asked my parents about that memory--It was of plastic tubes and lines and looking out through a window into the room. They told me what it was and how old I was at the time. I have lots of memories after that--my first steps when I was learning to walk. Holding my sisters finger while she stood over my crib. Road trips with my parents. The cats on the rafters. Fireflies at night. The echo on the woods. A snake that lived under a step outside the house. My sister used to leave a bowl of milk for it and thought it was her pet. Between one and two those memories stop being slices and become part of the long movie. I started making things with meccano/erector set parts when I was around three.

I remember crawling on the floor, potty training, and playing in the playpen. But none of those can be accurately dated.

I also remember going to the hospital where they displayed the newborn babies and having one pointed out to me. If that was, as I think it was, my younger brother, I was one year and seven months old at the time.

I also remember going to the doctor for strep throat at about two years old.

I have only the vaguest memories of crawling into an ant bed at a church picnic and sitting there until covered with ants. They took me to the emergency room for that. I was probably about a year or two old then.

By the way, from talking to my sister a few years ago, I was amazed that she couldn't remember anything from when she was younger than about three or four and she was amazed that I remember some things from much younger than that.

I remember lots of things before my 5th birthday:

I remember speaking at an early age where i lived before i moved to the place i had my 5th birthday.
I remember being hunted by wasps that flew into the appartment i lived in.
I remember me and my dad looking out the window, him learning me the names of cars.
I remember looking out the same window, watching some guy lay on the street, having been run over.
I remember sitting in a childrens chair, playing with a 3 colored toy. My mom said that "you couldnt have been more than 1 years old", how did you remember that.
+ lots of other things i remember.

But the earliest memory i have is a feeling. I remember something lodged in my throat, blocking air and feeling painful. My parents told me later that i ate a marble and was rushed to hospital, all blue in the face, saved at the last minute. Also 1 years old at this time.

My earliest memories are from ~6-8 months old. I've verified them (including descriptions of the house we moved out of before I was a full year old). I also have a fairly vivid recollection of the wandering incident (also before I was a year old, at the second house I lived in) that led to my parents securing the door with a chain lock to keep me indoors.

I have also been able to describe the walker I used as it was at the time I used it. One of my aunts tried to call me a liar because no one at that age (about 5-6 months, I think) could possibly remember such things. In my case, I was wondering why certain parts were missing, although I didn't think of them as missing. More like "if the parts on this side are like this, why is there nothing on the other side?"

One proud father once told me that his kid had memories from before he was born.

I also recall getting lost in a hospital eleavator when I was 2, touring a long abandoned farm house and riding a horse at like 3, getting my fingers cought in the 1981 Corona car door age 3, the family business' old shop they moved when i was 4 at the most, I remember all the names o all the kids at the babysitters and the house even that the babysitter always watched CNN age 3-4(I always wondered what CNN ment).

My couison(same age) I mentoned above and I plus 3 others made the front page(big photo and everything) of the local small town newspaper for rasing money for a school charity at age 5, he completely forgot that, how do you do that anyway? Like he really did forget everything and he is the smart one of the 2 of us! 90-100% in quantom physics! always a stright A student, I got so meny 50-65's in achidemics so how can it be? Do NT's really have such a deplorable long term memory?

The more I think about the more I remember, its like a flood!

It appears to be typical in autism. My first memories are from I was a year old.

I love early memory threads.

I remembered when my grandmother visited Canada when I was a year old. I remember that I was excited to see her. I also remember that she went on the train. I know that I saw her before that visit, but I don't have a single memory of that.

I remember really little from my first years. Also it's really hard to know what's memories and what's things I've seen pictures of and/or been told.