FabSwingers.com forum: Your earliest memory

By *ools and the brain OP Couple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

How far back can you remember?

For me it's building an airfix Apollo Saturn rocket model on our dinning room table as a young boy.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

I've got a very brief memory of seeing a huge animal walk past me as I lay on the floor at my grandmother's house. I layer realised it was a cat. I reckon I was about a year old. I also have a memory of sitting the other end of the pram to my brother and it tipping up on the kitchen. He was born when o was two.

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

Crawling towards the grate on a lit fireplace

LvM

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"How far back can you remember?

For me it's building an airfix Apollo Saturn rocket model on our dinning room table as a young boy."

How old do you reckon you'd have been. Has the memory stuck with you for any reason eg were you very happy?

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

I have strong and detailed memories of things when I was about 18 mths old and a couple of memories that are far more vague when I would have been about 1 year old

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Coming downstairs and seeing a big Christmas tree with lots of presents , from the description of the house I was 3. I can picture it like yesterday.

Lots of detailed memories of 4-6 years, nursery teachers and friends , adventures with my dad , lots of accidents and a few fights and getting in trouble.

I can still feel my eyes full of sand and feeling blinded when someone in the sandpit at nursery decided to throw sand in my face aged 4

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales

I remember being in my cot down my nan’s house and standing up arms outstretched to be picked up. Dunno how old I was though, fairly young I’m sure!

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By *ORDERMANMan
over a year ago

wrexham

When I was about 11 had a family holiday in Devon, on route passed through city where I was born..passing a park I just said is that where my grandfather had taken me for walks in the pram when he visited...I'd be 18 months when we left.

But park was exactly how I'd imagined it when told how your grand dad had walked you round it..

Think also when I was about 3 being responsible for coitus interuptus on parents..thought they were playing rodeo and I jumped on his back..I was sent to my bedroom pretty quick wondering what I'd done wrong..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

my dad getting turquoise reins out of the cupboard in the hallway, ready for a walk into town.

except i couldn't be trusted to walk without bolting.

must have been about 2.

Hahaha Px

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By *ools and the brain OP Couple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

"How far back can you remember?

For me it's building an airfix Apollo Saturn rocket model on our dinning room table as a young boy.

How old do you reckon you'd have been. Has the memory stuck with you for any reason eg were you very happy?"

Early 70's so I was probably around 5.

Didn't have a particularly good or happy childhood so this probably stuck as a rare moment of happiness in between the constant fighting and other things.

I do remember always being up a tree at every opportunity.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"How far back can you remember?

For me it's building an airfix Apollo Saturn rocket model on our dinning room table as a young boy.

How old do you reckon you'd have been. Has the memory stuck with you for any reason eg were you very happy?

Early 70's so I was probably around 5.

Didn't have a particularly good or happy childhood so this probably stuck as a rare moment of happiness in between the constant fighting and other things.

I do remember always being up a tree at every opportunity."

Good and bad tend to stick with you. It was probably surprise that made the cat memory stick with me and fear for the pram one.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

5 or 6. Running up the stairs, hear shouting. Try to hide in bed with my twin brother, father pulls blankets off, beating me with the heel of his shoe calling be a fucking bastard. Twin is terrified.

Fucking hate memories.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

I remember sitting my mums knee rubbing her pregnant belly chosing names for my little sister. I must of been about 3 and clearly remember my sister was born when I was three

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I cam remember being in my Dad's arms as he stood in the sea and him putting me down to paddle my legs in the water....Judging by the pic taken I was 12 months old or so

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Travelling

Honestly I'm not sure which is the earliest but there are quite a few

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

I'm not sure which is first.

Weird flashing lights on the television. I remember it vividly but I had no idea what I was looking at. It was night vision of bombs in the first Gulf War.

Temporarily living with my grandparents while my mum was on an extended hospital stay in the leadup to the birth of my youngest sibling. My grandmother and my mother telling me wildly conflicting things about it. The thing I remember is a crushing sense of helplessness and fear.

Both around 3/4.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

I used to go to play school twice a week and can still smell the hall

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By *wingin CatMan
over a year ago

London

Playing outside in the garden and remembering "Reach Out I'll Be There" by the Four Tops playing on the radio. I would only have been 2 at the time.

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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester

When i was 2 or maybe 3 i remember my budgie died and i remember my dad making a coffin for him putting toys and things that the budgie had and burying it in front garden

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

I remember sitting my mums knee rubbing her pregnant belly chosing names for my little sister. I must of been about 3 and clearly remember my sister was born when I was three

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Winter 1963. I remember my dad having to dig the car out of the snow.

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By *uri00620Woman
over a year ago

Croydon

I recall sitting on the floor and sorting a huge bag of Opal Fruits separating the orange ones as I wouldn't eat the others. Not very healthy but that's the 80s for you. Must have been young as by 3 and a half we had moved to a bigger house. Funny because now orange is my least favourite flavour.

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By *wingsnroundabouts82Couple
over a year ago

Fucksville

I was 18m and poured a kettle of boiling water over me, ended up in burns unit for weeks and remember sitting on the bed with the nurse drawing a picture of my face covered in blisters

got a couple of cool scars, one that everyone thinks looks like I got shot lol x I was very very lucky having a momma as a nurse so she saved 99% of my skin and I never really suffered from spots as a teenager and didn't need any plastic surgery that they were convinced I would x go me!

Sorry if that's a thread killer lol x

I'm the same as a lot of others, broken home and not too many "good" memories but making up for it now!!!!

x x

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

I was 2, being carried, at a baptism - not mine. I cried a little.

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By *uckoldDesiresMan
over a year ago

Dublin

I remember getting a spirograph as a present for my 3rd birthday.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

3 years old. New baby brother arriving home with Mum. I recall myself and Dad waiting.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

Am I weird, but I really don't know. I don't know what's a genuine memory or what is information I've been told or seen in photos. I have what I think is a vague memory of eating a Blue Ribband chocolate bar with the elderly neighbours we had in N.Wales. If that's a genuine memory, I would have been 3 or 4.

But I really and truly don't know

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

Sitting in my highchair in the living room, holding a sausage covered in baked bean juice

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By *esmond and Molly JonesCouple
over a year ago

Watford

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By *esmond and Molly JonesCouple
over a year ago

Watford

Probably watching the Beatles on a black and white TV and the moon landing (allegedly). I have surprisingly little memory of my early childhood.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Falling of my little red trike at my nans in Battersea splitting my head open think I was 3

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By *itvclaireTV/TS
over a year ago

Birmingham

Have some vague memories of the first house I lived in. My parents moved from there when I was 3 years old.

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

My earliest memories are from when I was around 2, we have some lovely photos of myself and my sister sitting outside in our little chairs, I remember my dad having a new camera and taking the pics

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A couple, but not sure which is the earliest; being in hospital after scolding myself with a pot of tea, being stuck getting up Porlock Hill in a car with my family (the smell of a burning clutch takes me there in an instant), playing in a pool at Sandy Cove hotel in Devon or my friend Amy singing a song in playgroup (i can remember the words to it now)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Opening a classroom door in primary school, and the door was huge.

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By *riving_Home_For_MimiWoman
over a year ago

Hampshire/Dorset

I can remember climbing out of the cot, staying at my nans. Also being on the front path of our house, being in my pushchair... So under 3 years old. Lots of memories from nursery school between 3 & 4.

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Very young, I thinking months old was brought in to get weighed I was placed on the scales and they were freezing and I screamed I could feel it on my calf/back and I was picked up and some kind of tissue was placed down with me back in the scales

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Another memory I had but I was about 8. I bit my snobby cousin on the arm cause she wouldn't let me see the dog.

Everyone was there, cousins and auntie and uncles. What bloody drama that caused. She was a child ballroom dancer and would turn up in her outfits. Was an only child and spoilt rotten.

After everyone had calmed down and we went my mum told me she had asked for it.

50 years ago and it's still brought up at family events

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My earliest memory is being carried by my father through a doctor's waiting room, a room I was not familiar with. I wondered why I was going straight through and all these people are having to wait and hoping they are not mad. When I was seen by the doctor he said immediately, "This child is very, very sick. Take him to the hospital immediately." He had a thick Indian accent and very dark skin.

It turned out this was when I contracted whooping cough, aged two. The doctor was doing a surgery in another village, which was why I didn't recognise it but I described it to my dad a couple of years ago. I even remembered the doctor's name, Dr Ghosh.

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

Going to the fair with my grandad and dropping my toffee apple through the steps of the helta skelta, I'm not sure how old I was, but I was devastated for my toffee apple.

Mrs

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By *eah BabyCouple
over a year ago

Cheshire, Windermere ,Cumbria

Remember going to the hospital when one of my cousins was born, I was 17 months so pretty young. Also remember my older cousin pulling my dummy out of my mouth and flushing it down the loo not sure if that was before or after the hospital visit. I never got another dummy and she’s never changed her ways

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

5 my neighbor had a poltergeist I was in the presence

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By *asterR and slut mayaMan
over a year ago

Bradford

Starting school at age 5 and playing with red dupulo bricks .

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