I am not able to remember my life before the age of 12.  I don't think this is normal.  Is it?
964014
no this is not normal; if you experienced some sort of trauma around that age then your mind may have reacted by blocking it out.. i do know that when i had a car accident my mind blocked that day out of my memory... i think they call it "shock induced amnesia".. hope that helps.
426152
I have often thought about where I was when my parents were children. I didn't exist, but it didn't bother me because I can't remember. Have you ever been knocked out, or fainted? You wake up with no recollection at first. Death is just long term blackout. People can wake from a 10 year coma and to them it was a day. In death you don't wake up.\nDeath will return us from whence we came...nowhere...\nWhat the f uck is shaggy on?
567431
Happens to me all the time.  I feel like I am loosing my mind sometimes.  I was taking medication for years and that really did a number on my mind.  I am off the meds and finally able to sometimes remember 5 min ago.\n\nWait....what am I saying....I forgot...oh bother...
992788
*shudder*\nI'm really trying to forget. I mean, what was wrong with me back then?
451941
Life isn't fair and some people see more of life at a younger age than others. All you can do is understand that most people your age haven't had the life experiences you have had. And would you really wish it on them? If your life has been hard, sometimes you may feel impatient or condescending towards people you see as naive and inexperienced. Just watch that you  don't come across as too brittle or bitter. Although you feel old, at 13 you have a lot of life in front of you. The fact that your aunt says you act 30 is a warning that you may be acting a little too hardened. Lighten up and enjoy being young. Don't feel that you are already so grown up that you can't enjoy some of the rites of passage of a young teenage girl.
900185
72 49 23 18 44 31 65 78.... I did it genuinely by making a persons face for each number, face with an age. I would say my memory is above average, but it has to be said relying on my mobile to remember numbers for me and using technology to do my brain's work hasn't helped. I remember lots of details from my childhood, but lots of my teens is missing, maybe due to cannabis and alcohol abuse at the time? thank goodness I've settled down. Or got boring, whichever way you look at it!
673774
It "isn't" as definitive as normal people-speak "is."\n\nI "am" 31 years old.  I don't "appear" or "seem" 31 years old (I still get carded), I have existed on this planet as a complete unattatched organism for 31 years.
776920
just coz u'r missing many pieces of the puzzle doesn't mean the end picture doesn't exist. \n\nsome people do remember their past lives and other people have used hypnosis to call these memories up. and others still who walk the peaceful path, like me, spending our hours learning to listen to our own hearts, we do learn to remember bits. i don't remember details of my past lives but i believe i came into this life already knowing things that others are learning for the first time or, in many cases, things that others are not even ready to learn yet. but i'm not an advanced soul, maybe not even intermediate. i've been thinking of undergoing past life regression, especially in my low days, but i'll keep putting it off until i can find a good enough reason to coz we're meant to figure it out for ourselves, that's why we're here in the first place. \n\nof course i asked the same question of the amnesia, who doesn't? the answer i received was that it's necessary so that we enter each new life with a clean slate. but even so it's only part amnesia. the soul retains everything through all the lives and in fact there are some people who suffer from injuries or traumas sustained from a previous life.
283090
I had the Chicken Pox when I was 2(that's very young to get them). I remember it well. After that, no memories until I was 4. It must have been the traumatic experience. It makes sense now that I hear about yours.
1046974
I don't think so..... but I have never envisioned myself being older than 30 or so.  Maybe it's a prediction and I just don't know it yet.
811729
Devastating! My mum has it & cannot remember what sentence she has started to finish it! She's only had it a few years but she can't remember names - even mine sometimes. Distant memories can be good at times but it's the more recent that is very poor. It leaves them devoid of functioning memories in the end - like how to deal with day to day living. Very sad,.
683686
i think that we have the ability to walk, talk, and love. i know there are a long list of things. but we all need to appreciate life alittle more. what the hell is this world becoming. im 31 and it has changed so much from when i was 15. thats sad
40083
Our brains are like brand new computers when we are born.\n\nThe computer is quite powerful, but you have to install the software applications you like, and you have to produce and acquire information that interests you.\n\nIf our brains had been full of knowledge at the moment of birth, life would be predetermined; you would not experience life as a unique and original experience.\n\nIn fact, as we grow older and our minds are more and more cluttered with information, memories, experiences, etc. we tend to be less open-minded and, as a result, we tend to experience less of life than the young child for whom everything around him is almost magical!
663766
Sure it is.\nI had a few by then.\nThe problem is that , at that age , you do not really know what life is all about.\nJust enjoy everything when it comes and when it goes.\nIt will go , and then , there will always be another one.
262669
I don't experience it as often as I used to, and I've no idea why. Theories abound but as with many strange phenomena I'm not sure there is a satisfactory explanation for it. It's just that inexplicable sense of having lived a moment in time (usually quite a brief and fleeting moment in time) before. Whether it's an unconscious familiarity with something real or imagined or a conscious sense of actually having lived such a moment before is impossible to say with any certainty. (And yes, you have asked this question before... but when and where is another matter entirely... spooky, huh?) ;)
1078586
The bad and trouble times affected you the most, that's why it's easier to recall them. You should try to visualise the good times. \nYou are NOT abnormal.
904131
I'm not a guy and I don't have ADD.  What I do have is huge case of forgetfullness.  I have to be reminded of things two, three, sometimes four or five times.  There's nothing wrong with me.  In fact, my long term memory is better than most.  But my short term memory absolutely sucks.  The people in my life find it annoying, heck, so do I, but they love me so they deal with it.  And, contrary to some opinions, a lack of remembering things does not constitute a lack of caring about things.