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[quote=Anonymous]I'm 55 this year and I have thousands of very clear memories of my childhood going back to about 3 years of age, from when I remember being home with my then SAHM and watching the Watergate hearings on television. Lots of 'shhhh' from my mom.

25 years later I studied criminal law with Sam Dash, famous chief Senate counsel for those Watergate hearings.

I am very grateful at times to have this kind of memory, because I had some childhood experiences especially with my maternal grandmother which I am glad to be able to close my eyes and revisit in some clear detail and some a bit fuzzier. I would be sad to not recall all the after school afternoons I spent reading and playing records and having those marathon talks on the phone with friends you just saw an hour ago at school.

The downside is that my ACEs score is an 8 and I have pretty clear recollection of most of the trauma experiences I had as a child, too.

I find one of the most important habits one can develop is the habit of steering the brain to recall positive memories and not as much negatives ones. The natural tendency is to the negative and one of my tools for coping with childhood ptsd is to constantly redirect my very active brain from those trauma memories to memories of the smell of the salt air and the sound of the surf as I lay in the hammock on the screened porch of my grandmother's Chatham beach house reading books and eating cucumber slices dipped in French dressing.

I have known lots of people in my life who similar to you OP don't have a lot of clear memories from childhood and young adulthood. I can't say I've ever envied that, but I do suppose the ability to be more forward thinking having a dearth of data for regrets or recriminations is not a bad thing. Interesting anyway the variances in the human brain.[/quote]

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