Yes, this is quite normal! I can barely remember anything before yesterday unless it really stands out, the further back in time I go the worse it is. She never has to continue saying “umm” in a sentence.
Why can't I remember anything before age 5, but my 3 year old kid can remember things from last year?
For example, if you’re trying to remember vocabulary for a language class, don’t try to memorize more than 7-8 words at a time. But ask them to remember anything before then, and you’ll probably be greeted with a puzzled expression.
I don’t remember too much that they actually said, but I can remember the sun being really bright against the shiny wooden floor and getting distracted by it.
I just don't really understand. I have vague recollections of things when family members talk about the past or when I look at a photo it seems that I can remember that photo being taken and where we are, but nothing before or after photos are taken. Experiments have shown that at 3 months, babies can remember new pictures or toys shown to them one to six days previously.
And the biggest pieces of my memory puzzle that have gone missing are … I Can't Remember The First 9 Years Of My Life - posted in Off–Topic Chitchat: I am 25 years old and I can't remember anything from before I was 9. Break the material down into small pieces.
I have little knowledge of my childhood: I can remember hardly anything from the age of about 10 years downwards. I have maybe 5 memories from the age of 10 and under. This year, we went again. I feel like I am constantly living in the moment, not unlike the film 50 first dates (except I do retain some memories). I've asked my parents if perhaps something bad happened to me that would force me to repress the memories but they said … Most of my friends can and it bugs me that I can't remember a single detail. Human memory is as fascinating as it is fallible. I remember being disturbed at the fact that I couldn't remember much of my very early childhood years, and that everything before seven or eight was kind of a blur. It is not that they don’t exist—they do, but adults are unable to access them the same way they can their adult memories.
I have little knowledge of my childhood: I can remember hardly anything from the age of about 10 years downwards.
I have vague recollections of things when family members talk about the past or when I look at a photo it seems that I can remember that photo being taken and where we are, but nothing before or after photos are taken.
Is your forgetfulness a sign of something serious? It’s a terrifying statistic, made more sobering considering that being sexually abused as a child can cause lifelong negative repercussions if victims do not find the support they need to heal. It is completely normal for this to happen, memories are very easily manipulated. By the time he's 9 months old, your baby will be able to remember more specific information, such as where his toys are in your house. But that’s gotten so much worse. Not retaining memories prior to around age 3 is referred to as “childhood amnesia” and has been studied quite often in psychology.
Faulty memory happens to us all. They started to explain they had never meant to keep it from me; it wasn’t a deep, dark family secret or anything to be embarrassed about. Do you remember being born? You can't remember the route to a restaurant you've been to many times before or the birthday present a friend gave you a month ago. Then comes the worry. A funny trick of development: kids don't typically remember anything that happened before they're 7. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) estimates that here in the UK, almost one in four children (24.1%) experience sexual abuse. I'm 21 years old and whenever I look back on life, I realize that I don't really remember anything. Very few people remember anything from before the age of two. Even things since then it's all sporadic memories and I'm a little unfamiliar with it. We simply do not have the mental ability to withhold episodic memories until about 3 years old. Id say otherwise from 10 on, I have a fantastic memory.
Life's Little Mysteries explains why a toddler's brain just isn't set up to for long-term memories. At the age of 4 I remember the live B&W broadcasts of Mary Martin in Peter Pan. Its like when you forgot the lyrics to a song that you have stuck in your head..or the name of an actor is right on the tip of your tongue, but you can't quite remember. There are so many reasons I can not list them all. But every other word is umm now.
If you are "remembering" things from age 1 it is more likely that you have constructed those memories without realising it. I don't remember anything that happened before I Was 13 years old. Childhood amnesia, also called infantile amnesia, is the inability of adults to retrieve episodic memories (memories of situations or events) before the age of two to four years, as well as the period before the age of ten of which adults retain fewer memories than might otherwise be expected given the passage of time. Most people generally do not remember anything before the age of three, although some theorists (e.g. It’s easier to process and remember information if you break it up into bite-sized chunks.