So I recently realised something: Theres a timespan of about 4.5 years, where I seriously have almost no memories of. I remember quite a lot of my life up to the 5th grade. However since between the 6th and maybe middle of 10th grade are mostly lost. I know stuff, that happened in this time, but its not nearly as much as before/after that time. One thing that might play into this, that I experienced quite a lot of bullying that just got worse as time went on. This was until the Corona lockdowns started while I was in 8th grade. While the lockdown might have saved my life it did not mean, that I worked through what the bullying caused to me. That did not start to happen until 1.5 years later.

I start to remember what was happening in my life until mid of 10th grade (so when I was 16), coincidentally thats also the time at which I started to get quite a lot intersted in women (and not in a sexual way, even though I thought it was) and started to do all the kind of exploring an egg does while being miles away from hatching.

  • Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6·
    13 hours ago

    To me that sounds like you experienced a lot of trauma during that time which prevented your memory formation and/or formed memories that have since been repressed.

    As for me, I can’t remember events in general because of my SDAM. So I have basically no memories of my life except for the few canon events which I remember on a factual level.

  • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    20 hours ago

    I have a giant blank spot for anything that happened more than 5 years ago. Starting when I was a teenager.