How do people writing biographies recall their lives in such detail. I barely remember my childhood just bits and pieces here and there. But nothing close to writing a book.

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How do people writing biographies recall their lives in such detail. I barely remember my childhood just bits and pieces here and there. But nothing close to writing a book.

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having a poor memory is a symptom of depression and lots of other conditions. not in the sense of trauma necessarily, but it took me well into my 30s to realize other people genuinely remember their childhoods and not just the 3 or 4 family stories that were retold and I didn’t even really hold a memory of the event, just familiarity with the storirs.