Amnesia/Memory Recall of Pre-Trauma Childhood

[afterandalasia]

Hello again, little-details. It's been a while (and a change of name) since I posted here, so hopefully I'm getting this right.

Setting: A mash-up historical period, with some elements from later Medieval and some post-Medieval, vaguely Scandinavian in feel, with magic in existence but very rare (other than the abundant presence of dragons). (For

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[lanalucy]

I can only speak to the first one. This is my personal experience, not research. I have virtually NO memories before three weeks past my eight birthday.

I don't remember people, places, pets, nothing. I occasionally have what I call emotional flashes, which is that I remember feeling a certain way, but I never have any memory of why I felt that way, or with whom I might have shared that event.

Even less often, I have a visual flash of say, eating fried bologna with mashed potatoes (haute cuisine, let me tell you), or "voting" in the 1976 election (I remember I "voted" for Ford, because we had the same last name. I would have been six or seven then.

If I knew people back then, I don't remember them, and I know (because my mother told me) that my mother and I lived with some people for an extended time, so they would have been prominent in my life.

All that to say I think it's certainly possible that she would not consciously remember having lived in the palace. She may have a visceral response to it, but not understand why she's having that response. She may have no response at all.

Hope that little bit of my past helps build the story.

[afterandalasia]

Thank you so much for sharing this. That's actually great for what I'm after here, which is basically not really knowing who she is until she gets confronted with it. You're a star.

[lanalucy]

Yay! Nice to know my past is good for something. lol