Is it normal not to be able to remember most of your childhood? I'm 35 years old and have very few actual memories from when I was younger. I have tons of pictures that I can look at, but none actually bring to mind a concrete memory.

In general, my memory is really bad. I can watch movies, then watch them again several months later and not remember how they went. I can learn something about my health, then forget about it a couple of years later. I don't forget everything, but select things I guess.

The few memories I have that aren't linked to photographs are little things - the Christmas tree on top of a bank building we drove by often, driving down roads that had red clay dirt alongside, and a random library room in my elementary school.

I had bad migraines starting at the age of 10, but other than that, nothing traumatic or abusive happened to me. I'm seeing a counselor and am interested in trying to access these memories, but maybe there's a reason I don't remember it all?