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Anything can be fake and gay as long as you post "fake and gay" first in the replies.

I'll take the plunge and try:

• fake: got nothin'
• gay: OP wasn't old enough to have sexual feelings, so this experience likely turned them off relationships w/ women

I feel bad for OP. If this story is fake, good job sir or ma'am, you have the makings of a great author.

Fake or not for OP, that's stuff that does happen

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I’m pretty old and remember kindergarten. Do you have any physical reminders that could help trigger memories?

I remember a fair bit of my early childhood:

• My older sister playing school with me. I was three or so. That's how I learned to read.
• When my mum taught me about the "little dragons" in our bodies; basically a child-friendly way to teach how sickness works, and how our bodies deal with them.
• My 4yo birthday. It wasn't anything special, but I remember jumping all happy across the kitchen.
• A few times that my father ruined family meal. Making my sister cry, making me cry, whining incessantly about the food, encouraging me to eat the cooked yolk that my mum would use in the dish, this kind of thing.
• My grandma pouring condensed milk over my chocolate milk, and saying "shh, don't tell your mum".
• Locking my grandpa's dog inside the basement, and getting gently lectured by him, on how the dog would feel afraid and lonely.
• My ophthalmologist asking me if I wanted pineapple or strawberry-flavoured eye drops. I was six or so. (More than three decades later, he's still the one taking care of my eyes.)

The more traumatic the event the more our brain tends to create strong memories around it. And if it’s super traumatic you get ptsd since the memories are so strong that your brain can relive those moments very vividly. It’s basically a adaption for survival when we were cavemen, so you don’t forget bad things and learn from it. Like seeing your uncle getting mauled by a lion so you create a strong memory and never forget that you have to avoid lions.

If you don’t remember shit you probably had a good childhood.

Assuming the story isn't fake, this could be a sufficiently traumatic memory to still be available even after many years. Really strong emotions can form strong memories, and cancer is a common enough topic that those pathways would see gradual maintenance over time. I certainly remember the first girl who had a crush on me, and that was back in first grade.

It's on 4chan though, so the easy assumption should always be that it is fake.

I remember rolling up to class while pretending to be a lizard. Crawling on the ground licking my lips, etc., etc.

Perhaps you shouldn't go there lol

I am 29 and I don't remember much when I was a teenager, and next to nothing from elementary school, lol.

I can even remember pre school before kindergarten

I have also very few memories from kindergarten and around that time, but when I was a teenager we moved back to the town where I used to go kindergarten at and all these guys I had no memories about remembered me and welcomed me back

Yeah, most of us forget things from before about 7ish pretty fast; often before we even leave elementary school (or the equivalent where the name differs).

I have managed to hold onto a decent amount of memories from kindergarten, though definitely not with the same kind of detail and clarity that started being possible about 3rd grade.

But even those memories are getting weaker and more blurry around the edges over the last decade. I can remember meeting a guy that would be a close friend later on, some of the cool teachers and things they did in kindergarten (the golden fairy and the prize box, which is a boring story if you weren't there, but influenced me heavily long after). And I definitely remember some of the students that I was in classes with as we went through school.

Like, this one kid that dropped his pants to pee at a urinal the first day, I remember that, even though my next memory of him isn't until 6th grade. But others, I can recall conversations whispered while we were supposed to be taking naps and have memories all through school because we interacted more.

Kind of trippy how memories get laid down and reinforced, or don't.

Yup, that's enough internet for today, gotta call in sick and watch sad movies all day.

After a show like this I have to watch like two seasons of braindead shonen to "wash down" the feels :(

Complete with a scene where anon jerks it to her while she lays unconscious in the hospital bed, and then he cries about it for 17 minutes.

Rest in peas.