What is your earliest memory?

[NewWaveChick1981]

I can remember my little sister being born. I was a year and a half old, and the reason I remember it is because my sister was born on Christmas Eve. Dad had taken me with him to the hospital to see my mom and my new sister, and Santa was there asking all the kids what they wanted for Christmas. I remember saying, "I already got my sister. That's what I wanted!" I also remember waking up the next morning, and I got a new trike and a Herman Munster Soaky. :)

My earliest political memory was RFK's assassination. I was 5 years old, and I watched the funeral on TV with my mother.

[Mutley]

1. I remember moving into a new house

when I was two. My sister and I were rolling around in some tall grass across the street.

I also remember the day care I went to around that time. There was a tree with poison oak on it and we used to dare each other to climb it anyway. One day, this girl finally did, but she didn't get sick.

[NewWaveChick1981]

3. Very cool!

I always hated the kids that didn't get a rash from poison oak or poison ivy. :P

[Mutley]

13. I've never had poison oak,

and I didn't get poison ivy 'til I was sixteen. :P

[NewWaveChick1981]

25. Lucky dog...

:) One year, my dogs went through a poison ivy field unbeknownst to us. We petted them and played with them as usual, and then the next morning, I was covered in red itchiness. :( It took two weeks and a trip to the doctor's office to get it under control. Of course, the dogs were totally unaffected. :eyes:

[Mutley]

47. Can dogs even get poison ivy? Mine walks through it all the time

and she never gets it. I haven't gotten it from her, either, thank Dog.

I got it when I was sixteen from walking in the woods. It was all over my legs, and it spread to my hands because I couldn't stop scratching it. I just waited it out for a couple weeks 'til it went away. I hope I never get it again.

[NewWaveChick1981]

52. Nope. They're totally immune to it.

But they can give it to you (if you're allergic) if you pet them right after the oil gets on their fur. :scared:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

18. I don't get it.

:P

[NewWaveChick1981]

21. You're so lucky...

I can look at a poison ivy or poison oak plant and just start itching.... I'm highly allergic to it. :(

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

26. I figured I would have gotten it a couple weeks ago but I didn't.

I was out on this granite island that basically only has some pine trees and a whole fuck load of poison ivy covering the whole thing. Amazingly, I didn't get it, even though I was climbing rock walls and scrambling over boulders covered in it.

[ForrestGump]

2. The only one I have a solid temporal fix on is when my brother was born,

when I was three, but I remember snippets that (according to my mother) are from when I was younger. I remember a fair bit from the age of three. I'm impressed that you remember as far back as 18 months old!

[NewWaveChick1981]

4. Thanks!

I think that 1) getting the baby sister I wanted so badly and 2) getting my baby sister as a Christmas present were the main reasons it was burned into my brain. I remember snippets here and there of other things, but nothing that I can make reasonable sense out of. :)

[ForrestGump]

5. Hey...it was the '60s

LOTS of people remember just snippets of that time and can't make reasonable sense of it.

Far out.

:D

[NewWaveChick1981]

8. ROFL!

:rofl: Duuuuude....

[ForrestGump]

12. And then there're those photos of me cavorting, nude, during the

Summer of Love.

Of course, I was only three years old...

[NewWaveChick1981]

15. I have a few of those...

But of course, I was 5... :P

:rofl:

[ForrestGump]

20. Well, you know what they say about

older women. :D

I have to say...at first I panicked, thinking that you meant you had a few of mine. :o

[NewWaveChick1981]

28. Your mom sent them to me for blackmail purposes.

:P Nope, they're mine. And they're totally embarrassing. Like one of me and my sister eating chocolate cake in the back yard, totally wearing chocolate cake all over myself, with only my underwear and a Batman cape and mask on (the mask was on top of my head). :P Sis had the Robin costume the same way. :rofl:

[ForrestGump]

32. Ha! :D These pictures have a way of coming back to haunt us, don't

they?

"I was young! I needed the chocolate cake!"

Oddly enough, what you describe, complete with Batman outfit, is disturbingly close to my current idea of a good time. :o

[NewWaveChick1981]

35. I should have known you had a chocolate cake-Batman

fetish... :evilgrin:

[ForrestGump]

39. Well, of course. Doesn't everyone?

:P

Wanna see my bat-a-rang?

Holy Inappropriate Advance, GumpMan!

[Guava Jelly]

6. I had a tail and i was swimming towards this hugh round object

trying to out swim a thousand other tadpoles..
I remember winning :)

[NewWaveChick1981]

7. Score!

:rofl: You have an incredible memory, Sperm Boy.... :P

[ForrestGump]

10. How come you never call ME Sperm Boy?

:-(

She loves me not...

:cry:

[NewWaveChick1981]

16. Hey---you didn't describe yourself as a tadpole

swimming toward the goal and winning.... :P

:hug: OK, we'll call you Sperm Boy Too... No crying in here! :)

[ForrestGump]

24. Good point

Though I have done a lot of swimming.

I'm more like a maypole, anyway. :D

[NewWaveChick1981]

29. Hmmmm.... I remember dancing around the maypole when I

was a kid.... We did that as kids until somebody suddenly realized the phallic pagan significance of it and made us stop. :P Maybe that's why I am like I am today....

[ForrestGump]

33. Um

(whole train of thought derailed and decommissioned by the author) :evilgrin:

[NewWaveChick1981]

42. ROFLMFAO!

:rofl: Do you want me to describe the maypole to you? I totally remember what it looked like.... :evilgrin:

[ForrestGump]

45. Are we still talking about the maypole when you were a kid?

Or the one when you were 17? :o

:blush:

[NewWaveChick1981]

46. Ummm...wait...

:blush:

[ForrestGump]

50. Aha! Your face betrays you!

Once again, HeteroMan finds the way to Truth, Justice, and the Hedonistic Way!

:patriot:

[NewWaveChick1981]

53. Take it off, HeteroMan!

:applause: Take it ALL off! :woohoo:

[ForrestGump]

58. You only had to ask...

Oh...you mean all of it?


:blush:


Okay...


This is the only one I have scanned -- a significant moment in history:




:headbang:

[NewWaveChick1981]

65. So life isn't REALLY like a box of chocolates, eh?

:rofl: :applause:

[ForrestGump]

66. I was going to reply with something way beyond the pale

But I restrained myself. And they said it couldn't be done. :D

And whatever you think I was going to say, no, that's not what I was going to say, and that goes doubly if it actually was what I was going to say (and, if you independently arrive at what-I-might-have-but-wasn't-really-actually-thinking, please be sure to wash your mind out with soap and water).

I think I need to go to bed. To sleep, I mean. :P

G'night/afternoon... :hug:

[Guava Jelly]

11. yup then i remember being such a bad fetus

I got a spanken as soon as i got out.
Plus everyone talked to me like i was an idiot..Come to think of it not much has changed!

[NewWaveChick1981]

19. So you're saying you still get spankings?

:P :hi:

[Guava Jelly]

22. shit i wish

:)

[ForrestGump]

9. Does the Beach Boys' "I Get Around" resonate particularly strongly

with you? :D

[JitterbugPerfume]

14. I remember my brother being born

my Aunt Jo baby sat us because daddy ran my other aunt off because she "sassed " him (Aunt Irene is still sassy , by the way at age 80) My brother (God rest his sweet soul) was one and a half yr younger than me (from June to November)



WOW!!!! that was in 1942 I AM SOOoooooooo old

[NewWaveChick1981]

17. You're not old!

You're just fine! :) And I'm glad to know you had a memory like that at about the same age I did! :D

[JitterbugPerfume]

23. dramatic happenings

stand out in memory

and it sure was dramatic when daddy told Irene to HIT THE ROAD LOL

[NewWaveChick1981]

30. LOL! I'll bet your Aunt Irene is a lot of fun to be around...

Anyone who can still be sassy at 80 is OK in my book! ;)

[femmocrat]

27. I can remember my mother bringing my baby brother home from the hospital.

I was about 23 months old. It was in the winter and she was in the back seat of my uncle's car, holding the baby.

[NewWaveChick1981]

31. How cool!

:hi: That's a nice memory...

[grannylib]

34. My earliest memory is of standing up in my crib at a summer day care

program at church (it was for the kids of the women teaching vacation Bible school) and a teen volunteer waving a treat at me saying, "Do you want a Dilly Bar?" One of the odd bits of that memory is the pattern on the tile floor in the church nursery.
Mom says I was about 18 months old. I have tons of memories from when I was really little (three and under).

My first political memory is of JFKs assasination/funeral; I am about the same age as Caroline Kennedy and I thought it was so sad that her daddy was dead. I also remember being at a lot of civil rights marches and demonstrations with my parents.

[NewWaveChick1981]

36. I was six months old when JFK was assassinated, so

I don't remember anything about it. I find it fascinating when people who were very small children at that time remember it. It's an entirely different perspective than an adult's would be. :)

That's so cool!

[grannylib]

38. There were so many pictures of Caroline and John with the family

and with JFK, and I clearly remember seeing those and thinking 'their daddy loves them' and it resonated because I was a 'daddy's girl' and knew I was loved too...
It just made me so sad that anyone would want to kill such a nice man who loved his kids...I had no clue, of course, as to any political 'rationale' for it - it was just the whole family thing and it seemed so wrong, even to a 4-year-old...

[BreweryYardRat]

37. Falling head-first off a picnic table at sunset...

...onto concrete. Split my lip enough that I had to get stitches.

I was about 2 1/2.

[ForrestGump]

41. Ouch

:-(

The subject line, though, would make for a great poem or Lennonesque song lyric.

[NewWaveChick1981]

43. Ooh, not good!

:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

40. My earliest memory? I was about 17 months old.......

My mom and I were living at my grandmother's house while my dad was in the Army..........

It was 1944, probably.........

I wasn't walking yet. There was a hall that extended from the entry to a glass door with one of those faceted glass doorknobs.

I remember crawling down the hallway to the glass door, and reaching up for the doorknob.

Since I couldn't reach it, I started to cry.

Someone came and opened the door.......and that's all I remember.........

I told this one to my mom, and she verified the details!

We thought I remembered it because I was traumatized.......

[NewWaveChick1981]

44. I think anything really strong, like trauma or joy or fun

really stands out in kids' minds at that age. :)

[RFKHumphreyObama]

48. Interesting question NewWaveChick1981

I think my earliest memory was being carried for a family photo when I was just under 1.

My earliest political memories are much easier to remember. We lived in SE Asia during my youth and we had Filippino maids in our house. I remember them telling me about what a bad person "Mr. Marcos" was and how there was this brave woman called "Mrs. Aquino" whose husband had been murdered by "Mr. Marcos" and how she was going to restore proper democracy to the Philippines.

[NewWaveChick1981]

55. Wow! That's too cool...

Under 1? :) I think you win the prize! :applause:

It's kinda strange about how we get our first political memories. It's usually some traumatic or catastrophic event that triggers them too.

[RetroLounge]

49. My Earliest Memory?

When I was 19 and lost my virginity.

Everything prior to that is irrelevent...

:D

RL

[NewWaveChick1981]

59. Well, okay, then!

:* :hi:

[miss_american_pie]

51. When I was 2

and my parents were going to the hospital for my brother's birth. They dropped me off at my aunt's. I had never been separated from my mother before and wouldn't stop crying.

[NewWaveChick1981]

60. That's totally understandable...

:hug: :hi:

[Roon]

54. You might not believe this

But I remember being in a crib with an orange blanket. I remember seeing a black cat on the dresser and being scared of it. I have no idea how old I was.

[NewWaveChick1981]

61. Wow! That must have been scary to an infant!

:hug: :hi:

[johnnie]

56. I remember reading this thread

Everything before that is a blur

[NewWaveChick1981]

62. :)

:P

[maveric]

57. Sitting at the breakfast nook with my Grandpa. He was holding up 2 fingers

telling me that I was two. I put my two fingers up and repeated "two".
That was 1958.

[NewWaveChick1981]

63. That's cool!

:hi:

[sakabatou]

64. My first visual nightmare

[NewWaveChick1981]

75. Wow...

:yoiks:

[Reverend_Smitty]

67. My earliest memory is not a good one

I couldn't have been more than 4 or 5 years old and I was running in the house, tripped and fell into the corner of a table. It cut me about 3 cm away from my eye, I remember it bleeding a lot and my dad picking me up and taking me into the bathroom to clean me up. It was a frightening experience...I still have the scar as a reminder to this day.

My earliest political memory was the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was 5 at the time and didn't know why everybody was making such a big fuss about a wall coming down

[NewWaveChick1981]

76. Oooh, not a good memory!

:hug: :hi:

[asthmaticeog]

68. Everything before I first tried alcohol is a blur.

:hangover:

[NewWaveChick1981]

77. :)

:hi:

[Blue_In_AK]

69. The great blizzard of 1950

in southern Ohio. We got trapped in our car without enough warm clothes on, and my dad had to walk out to get us help. We nearly froze. I was four at the time.

[NewWaveChick1981]

78. Glad you made it through OK!

:hug:

[u4ic]

70. Seeing my father

drag my mother across the bathroom by her hair. :-(

She had been giving me a bath at the time. She recalled that memory, and I think she said I was about 2 1/2.

I wish I had a happier one.

[Guava Jelly]

74. Not a good first memory at all

:(
I hope it was the worst though.
no child should have to witness that kind of abuse .
:hug:

[u4ic]

83. .

:hug:

[NewWaveChick1981]

79. Geez, sweetie!

:hug: That sounds terrible. :hug: I wish you had a better one too. :(

[u4ic]

84. Thanks, NWC

:hug:

[MiniMandaRuth]

71. I was like, eight months old or something.

I was in my old house with my dad, and he was tossing me up and down. There was a hutch in the corner with glass doors and a sliding glass door and there was a ceiling fan and the walls were very light green or white.... (Run on sentence, man!!!)

My earliest political memory was voting for Clinton in a mock-election. I had a good eight years growing up.

[NewWaveChick1981]

80. Very cool!

:hi:

[deutsey]

72. RFK's funeral is my clearest earliest memory, unfortunately

Before that, the memories are somewhat blurred and jumbled.

[NewWaveChick1981]

81. That's my earliest political memory.

:hi:

[deutsey]

87. I wish my earliest memory had been of his inauguration....

:evilfrown:

I know "what could've been" is always rosier than what actually happens, but I have to think an RFK presidency would have been a helluva lot better than what we got with Nixon.

:hi:

[Hosnon]

73. Honestly? Peeing on the carpet when I was probably three or so. nt

[NewWaveChick1981]

82. Hey, I think we all did that at one point or another.

:rofl: Me? Well, I probably did that when I was a baby. I PROMISE I haven't done since then---honest!

I'll bet DUers like matcom and Floogeldy did it more recently than that. :P

:hi:

[Broken_Hero]

85. a few...

my biological father, leaving my mother...I was 4yrs old, I believe. Most of my first memories are around the age of 3-4...most of them deal with daycare places, my bio father, and me falling out of a car doing 55mph...

[1monster]

86. Three years old, going down the basement steps, tripping and rolling

off the edge of the steps (no walls or railing) and off the edge on to the concrete floor. Walking back up those same stairs because my mother was sure that if I could walk back up the steps, I wasna't hurt to badly. Drinking chocolate milk and losing it. Riding in a neighbor's car to the hospital.