When your 3 earliest childhood memories are positive or negative, does it affect your personality later?
Sisyphus asked:
Eg. is a person who’s earliest memories are very positive likely to have a positive outlook on life, and a person whose earliest memories are of suffering they’ll take a negative view on life?
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Eg. is a person who’s earliest memories are very positive likely to have a positive outlook on life, and a person whose earliest memories are of suffering they’ll take a negative view on life?
How relevant are the earliest recollected childhood experiences, if at all?
Eric
September 28th, 2011 at 12:26 pm
Emily
I have both positive and negative memories, and very vivid ones going back to the age of 10 months or so. I had an EEG and remember sitting down and having the wires put on my head, I had been having seizures and was tested by a neurologist. I also remember something when I was less than 20 months old, my family left me and my sister (someone was sick and dying in another state and they needed to help them) with a babysitter for several weeks. The babysitter was driving us somewhere and I was sitting on the backseat of a car and there was another little girl about my age who was black sitting there. We stared at each other for the longest time and didn’t say anything, she totally fascinated me. I remember her big beautiful brown eyes and her little braids with a rainbow of colors of little plastic barrettes on the end of the braids. She was so pretty and different. To this day I love to meet people from all kinds of cultures and talk to them, and have wondered if that memory is the reason for it. Then a few weeks (maybe 3 or 4) later my father came to get me and my sister, I ran to the ladderback chair he was sitting in and crawled underneath and held on braces on the sides and cried, I guess the babysitter was mean (blocked out whatever she did but my sister remembers a few things )and I was scared of water for several years, had to take a sponge bath for a few months after that and when I was in a car riding over a bridge I would get dizzy seeing the water.