ADHD memes

Old joke.

Two medical students are chatting. One says that they read an article that said the better adjusted a person is the further back they can remember. An emotionally stable person should be able to recall many things from pre-school and an exceptional person could remember learning to speak.

"So what's your earliest memory?"

"I snuck a beer of of my parent's fridge when I was 13."

"Did this memory actually happen a long time ago or did it happen yesterday and my brain filed it wrong"
-Me more and more recently

My first memories are traumatic!

Actually, a number of my childhood memories are the traumatic ones... Fuck.

A Mother who loves to gaslight ist not helping as well, in case you were wondering

I remember my dad getting pissed at me for something when I was 16 or 17 and he slammed my head through the drywall. I don't remember what I did to piss him off, but I remember having my head slammed through a fucking wall.

I find memory interesting. I see a lot of indication that different folks sorta have a different retention period. Granted we all sorta reset each night and only retain so much of what we keep in active memory but I feel like most people don't really retain much of things even 5 years back and even less can do 10 and less still 20 and less still 50 and further on your dead. This seems to be why our democracies can make the same mistakes again and again.

I don't have that, I can remember a few things back to age 3/4. But an ex has this, starting most memories around age 10 - 12, and I'm just surprised how that doesn't spark a thorough medical investigation. Just nobody cares.

There's also "childhood amnesia" caused by the hormonal changes of puberty.