my autobiography
I’m starting to write my autobiography. It’s interesting, I find that I really remember very little from my childhood. When I try to place an age on each of my early childhood memories I always refer to it as ‘when I was seven.’ My Jr. High memories as when I was twelve or thirteen. There is a little bit of accuracy once I get to be a teenager because then I started going to a school that had other people. But compared to the massive amounts of events in that time period I still can remember very little.
I think I need to discover some childhood-memory-generating heuristic devices. Any suggestions?
Jen said
May 31st, 2005 @ 12:14 pm
Well, Nate I can remember when you stood up in front of church when you were oh, 5 or 6 and sang pigs don’t live in houses! You can ask your Mom or Dad for the details on that one!! I will never forget it!
you asked!!
Beth'sMomToo said
June 2nd, 2005 @ 2:17 pm
Come on, Nate, don’t you remember all those wonderful SS classes with me? If you’re memory is a little fuzzy…let me just remind you that you really liked doing verses on the hangman game. (Hopefully you DON’T remember anything I got wrong back then! ;}
Tim said
June 20th, 2005 @ 12:37 pm
i usually base my guess on how old i was by my relationship with my sister. first was the unwilling submission- infancy. obviously, there isn’t much to remember from them. then there was the misled submission period- toddler to young childhood. that consisted of being dressed up an unknowingly humiliated. then there was the direct defiance period. this was probably 9-12 and was characterized by fighting and her stabbing me with a pitchfork. This era ended mostly with her leaving to college, so the next period is the exodus period. and by then, i’m able to link my experiences with whatever music i listened to. you know, the Ace of Base years, or the Blues Traveler years.
Jay said
June 22nd, 2005 @ 11:44 am
Two words, bud:
Computer nut.