Why does it take so long for us to form our first memory?
The thing I find most interesting about childhood amnesia is that that, despite this headline, it's not that we don't form early memories. We do form them, and then as we get older we forget them again.<p>If you ask a 5-year-old child, they will accurately remember things that happened to them when they were 2. Then they gradually forget, and at 11, the early memories are completely lost.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia#Fading_memories" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia#Fading_memor...</a>