“There’s only one thing that’s worse than having an unhappy childhood, and that’s having a too-happy childhood.” Dylan Thomas
At one point I made a list of everything I could remember.
Where you live, what you’re wearing. The best places to hide.
Oh hold on, that post is for my stalking blog.
Bad Memory
About five things in total I remembered.
But you can’t force it like that.
Memories have to be triggered by present events,even at random.
Make a note when a memory hits lest it fall quickly below the sea.
Life is about losing slowly, memories giving us small solace.
While it may be easy to think of an elephant if you read the word elephant, trying to
think of all you ever remembered is more difficult.
Early Life
I tried to go back to my earliest memories.
Trying to stand up in my crib, struggling to get to my feet.
Thinking of me as ‘me’ for the first time.
Climbing over the wall of the crib to freedom.
Opening and closing drawers just for fun.
I climbed up on to the writing desk and broke off the lever that opened it.
I felt bad, and experienced something that felt ‘wrong’ for the first time.
I felt shame. I was never told off for doing it. They must have thought I was too young.
Lying in my pram, family towering over me blocking the sun.
People were always standing around me all talking at once.
Who are these people? I didn’t invite them?
Goo Goo Goo
Enthusiasm. Energy. Talking to me in 3rd person.
Talking to me in baby talk.
He’s a good boy,yes he is, you’re a good boy aren’t you?
Why don’t they talk to me normally?
All the heads peering in at me.
Isn’t he a good boy?
I remember my first words :
“Don’t patronise me”
Tim Willow
Did you read this? Are you blonkers?
What is your first memory of being patronised?
Patronized, probably when the doctor slapped me!!!!
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lol, only a slightly longer memory than me 🙂
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Actually, my mom told me! LOL
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They say babies use baby talk because that is all they ever hear. if they were talked to normally, their speech would develop proportionately. Why do we use baby talk when talking to our pets?
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interesting – but yeh, people humanise them – it’s certainly not teaching them to speak which I thought was the point of talking to a baby!
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I have very few early memories, which is odd…. because my mind is like a steel trap now and I tend to remember every little annoying detail much to my husband’s horror. (He doesn’t get away with anything!)
Want to know what you wore to Uncle Joe’s birthday party June of ’78?
Or maybe what that horrible meal you had at Bob’s retirement dinner back in ’96 was?
I’m your girl.
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was I there? i honestly can’t remember 🙂
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But I will. Probably how much you drank, who you danced with and why Aunt Sally no longer speaks to you as well….
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I always wondered about her, she always looked at me funny and I had no idea why
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It was that offhand comment you made about her hair looking like a F5 tornado. Some people can’t take a joke.
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yeh she get over it.
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I remember being christened when I was just a few weeks old. Some idiot in a dress sticking his wet fingers on my head. Bugged the hell out of me.
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That was my best dress!
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Lol
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Being told that everything was OK after my Grandad died…..clearly it wasn’t, everyone was crying their eyes out…except me, I didn’t have a clue what was going on but I knew everything wasn’t OK.
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that’s another thing – the parents don’t really know what to do with children – they can do the make stuff way as they don’t know how to tell the child
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I’ve never had any but I imagine it’s pretty tricky knowing what to do with them
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nor me, unless I forgot and left them somewhere 🙂
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It’s always a possibility ;O) x
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I remember how easy it was to tell which adults the other adults didn’t like.
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How? 🙂
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I don’t know exactly but it seemed obvious.
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I had it where they seemed to like everybody but I thought it was weird as I had no clue who they were 🙂
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