what defines someone’s first memory that they remember?

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I’ve spoke to a few people about this and they all say that there first real memory was an injury that they had. Is there a reason for this?

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The strength of a memory depends on your emotional reaction to it. Pain is a very powerful emotion, thus leads you to form strong memories. (It’s the reason why “trauma” is a thing, and why punishment is used so often as a training method – especially for animals)

For me, there are a couple, that I can’t quite place the order of – but they were all positive and I can’t remember any negative ones from that time period (1-3 years old).

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