See, that's just it. The memories people are describing aren't generally big events; they're tiny, isolated snapshot images of random things. Who would choose to remember puking chocolate milk or a talking T-rex in the wallpaper? You're right that memories can shift, and hearing about something often enough can make you mislabel it as an experienced memory when you really only remember hearing about it, but that doesn't mean it's the case with most of the people posting here. Plenty of people retain tiny shards of very old memories.
You might find this article in Psychology Today interesting:
Is it normal to have such an early memory?
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See, that's just it. The memories people are describing aren't generally big events; they're tiny, isolated snapshot images of random things. Who would choose to remember puking chocolate milk or a talking T-rex in the wallpaper? You're right that memories can shift, and hearing about something often enough can make you mislabel it as an experienced memory when you really only remember hearing about it, but that doesn't mean it's the case with most of the people posting here. Plenty of people retain tiny shards of very old memories.
You might find this article in Psychology Today interesting:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-child-in-time/201012/the-shifting-boundary-childhood-amnesia