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Babies do make memories — so why can’t we recall our earliest years? (www.nature.com)
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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

I happen to be extremely nearsighted, and nobody figured that out until I was 8 years old, so that visual memory test thing they did wouldn't have worked well for me.

With that said, my very first memory is actually a smell, from about age 2.

What was that smell? Marijuana, no joke.