Which is also why I am more confident on my considered oldest retained memory being real, as it was a rather ordinary event that nobody else remembered. Other "memories" I have from when around 3 I don't really trust as they have been replayed by others too many times.

Of course, maybe I just remember the memory me replaying the memory to myself. Is there a meaningful difference even? Maybe all our memories after some time become blended with our re-narrating them and re-interpreting them.

> and the helicopter struck me.

That must've been traumatic! He's lucky to have survived this! Oh, the helicopter was in the film? Perhaps choose a different idiom...

I hope that English is not the native tongue of this blogger, because its poor writing quality (as a "blog carnival" entry, no less!) makes me pine for polished LLM-speak!

Remember how "grammar flames" and "grammar nazis" used to be extremely rude, but by the same token, many literate/educated people cannot stand to see writing like this, because of the way it grates on our nerves, and bogs down our cognition trying to understand what the hell ideas this person is trying to convey.

Elegant writing and good grammar are simply table stakes now in the age of LLMs, although I could also understand that there is a certain deliberate regression to these sorts of amateur "mistakes" just to try and "prove" we're not using LLM assistance!

Similar situation. I have no doubt that a large fraction of my childhood memories are fabricated, but there were a few that I kept to myself until I was over the age of 30 and were later confirmed by a parent or aunt or uncle.

There's also the phenomenon of having a memory of a memory. At age 10, I had a very solid recollection of my life at ages 5 to 6 (not so much of age 4). Now all I remember is that I used to remember a lot more than I do know.

Yea, I have a couple of early memories that I can date from ~1-2 years old (early bday party, birth of sibling). And presumably a few more early memories are from that period but don't involve events I can assign a date to?

I kinda suspect this is true for a lot of people, but since memories aren't time-stamped, they don't realize how early they are.

Wait till most of your life feels "from another world"...

I visited places I lived in the past and it feels like a place somebody else lived, who were close to me, but still not "me".

Surgery on infants without anasthesia is not something done any longer in any country that particularly cares about the health of its citizens.

Yeah I'm not sure you should do surgeries without anaesthesia on newborns either way.

Why are all the MRA activists so fucking weird about circumcision.

Folks like you drag it into the most unrelated conversations in the weirdest way.

I used to mod a trauma based subreddit and there was one dude who would _not_ drop it. Dudes name was something with MGM in it while he actively denied that FGM was a thing and that women are subject to sexual harassment.

Maybe the general public would give a shit if the MRA took feminists seriously at all, instead of shouting down the issues women face at the hands of the patriarchy that set up the circumcision practice in the first place.

Thing is most people generally fucking agree with you but you come off so fucking weird and you dismiss people who are actually struggling more than men are and like yeah “boo-hoo they cut our dicks” but COME ON, man.

This had NOTHING to do with that.

You drew a tangent line on this convo’s circle, another circle on that tangent line and then a different tangent line on the second circle at a different fucking angle to get to that topic from this one.