you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?
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Many people in the comments are saying “trauma”, but this is actually a very normal occurrence. It’s called Childhood Amnesia, and it’s a process which, as the brain reorganizes itself for cognitive thought that is developed in late childhood, it changes the Accessibility of those memories during recall. Many childhood memories are available to the person, but they will not be remembered during regular recall activity, you have to “trick” your brain into remembering with different tactics.
This is because there are two parts to memories - their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It can’t be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.
This is an important distinction, because trauma memory is “stored in the body”, i.e. you get triggers that send your body into a cascade of uncontrollable feelings, sensations and reactions. Whereas childhood memories won’t generally do that, they are just recalled at odd times with odd associations.
reblogging this because I’ve legit seen people freaking out when they realised they can’t remember some of their childhood, thinking they might have some repressed trauma.
Simple and Clean is truly magical because never before has a song made me so emotional while making the least amount of sense imaginable
god being a teenager really is so wild. i was so Mad. I mean I had valid reasons to be. I think we all joke like “what are teenagers so mad about” but the truth is usually they have Plenty to be mad about but GEEZ dude.
Teen Mallaidh Anne fist fought a grown man in a mosh pit. She got a concussion. Do you know what I’d do now if a grown man challenged me to a fight in a mosh pit? I’d say “yikes man” and move to the other side of the mosh pit.
everyone keeps psychoanalyzing this with whatever degree they don’t have and saying stuff like “you gave up” as if NOT getting in fistfights with random strangers three times my size anymore is Unhealthy
For real - part of growing up is knowing what hills are worth dying on and which are worth shrugging off. Life is much happier and healthier when you know what is worth risking yourself for and what’s not.
concept: let’s go to bed at 9pm instead of 3am. let’s drink more water for our bodily health and less coffee for the aesthetic. let’s not skip breakfast because it’s worth running a little behind even if it’s just some fruit or cereal. let’s go socialize even if we’re kinda nervous. let’s love ourselves when we feel down, because flaws are not the end of the world. let’s work hard but take breaks in between instead of procrastinating and then rushing. let’s ignore what people who don’t know us have to say about us behind our backs. let’s be kind to each other because we’re all trying here. let’s hype up being mentally healthy rather than being perfect. let’s live our lives like we want to.
just a thought.
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