you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?
Many people in the comments are saying “trauma”, but this is actually a very normal occurrence. It’s called Childhood Amnesia, and it’s a process which, as the brain reorganizes itself for cognitive thought that is developed in late childhood, it changes the Accessibility of those memories during recall. Many childhood memories are available to the person, but they will not be remembered during regular recall activity, you have to “trick” your brain into remembering with different tactics.
This is because there are two parts to memories – their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It can’t be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.
This is an important distinction, because trauma memory is “stored in the body”, i.e. you get triggers that send your body into a cascade of uncontrollable feelings, sensations and reactions. Whereas childhood memories won’t generally do that, they are just recalled at odd times with odd associations.
reblogging this because I’ve legit seen people freaking out when they realised they can’t remember some of their childhood, thinking they might have some repressed trauma.
the first avengers was a lot funnier than we gave it credit for. I remember not knowing it was coming out until the week it happened. some scenes looked like they had budgets of $10 million. some scenes looked like they had budgets of $10. robin scherbatsky was randomly there. it was the third movie with RDJ and he still looked energetic to be in the franchise. 2012 black widow who was the only black widow we cared about. everyone’s drama about why mark ruffalo was there instead of edward norton. thor’s dumb haircut and dramatic entrance. steve roger’s gay ass outfit. chaotic good.
the blatantly plastic armor that Chris Hemsworth wears
I’m watching this and laughing every other character had a major speaking role or their own movie and then Jeremy Renner is just trying his best
JOSS WHEDON WHAT IS THIS DUMB ASS INSTAGRAM FILTER YOU USED IN AN ACTUAL MOVIE
oh god remember when all we cared about was shawarma?
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