I don't have memories of my childhood like my mom did even though nothing bad happened in my childhood......basically NOTHING happened because my mother didn't drive & my dad worked when I was home.....but.

Here is my thinking on that.....I know that my mother shared the things that happened in her life with her cousin...fun weekends in the cabin with family & just good times....they shared those memories up until just before my Mom died at the age of 80. I don't have anyone in my life from my childhood days so I have never shared the memories so make them stick deeper in the memory. Now I think back & wonder at times if that really happened or what feelings I was really having when those things happened. I remember the fun stuff from summers with my grandparents (some even details) but absolutely nothing from my home life with my parents. I realized also that they were so dysfunctional that I didn't have a normal childhood that other kids had & no social interaction because my parents had no social contacts other than maybe once a year of if the church decided to include them because they were including everyone else.....I understand now because I thought back to why I had this feeling of being so embarrassed by my parents (especially my dad) that I didn't want anyone to know I belonged to them).....that is about the only memory I have that really stuck.....but no real memories of my life up through 6th grade other than the time with my grandparents.....like a black hole.

Have a black hole from 1994-2003 also & all the numerous hospitalizations that ran from one into another.....didn't realize that migraines could do that because I had horrible non-stop migraines through all those years until I finally got on a high dose of pain medication that finally controlled the pain......that's insight into the lack of memory.....I don't even remember the suicide attempts I had except for one.

LOL....I was a computer engineer for 15 years before 1994 so my mind was able to work & remember information.....just NOT my life that was nothing but fighting in my marriage.