I rememember almost nothing before the age of about 15... and then again nearly nothing between ages of 16 and 17...
for me though I get "snippets" and then they grow into memories, or into metaphors of memories (if that makes sense). there are many reasons for these memory lapses, one of the most common is that of "state dependent learning" which basically means that you have to be in the same mental state to remember an event as you where when you learnt/experianced it - which is one of the reasons why for people who have flashbacks they can be triggered by an emotion.
Strange thing for me was that until a psych asked me about my childhood I had never really realised that other people did remember things lol.
Do you have any idea why you deeloped this coping mechanism?
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